The Elegants Back In Time (LP)

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(Crystal Ball) 16 tracks The Elegants est un groupe vocal américain de doo-wop formé en 1958...plus

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The Elegants: Back In Time (LP)

(Crystal Ball) 16 tracks

The Elegants est un groupe vocal américain de doo-wop formé en 1958 par Vito Picone, Arthur Venosa, Frank Tardogno, Carmen Romano et James Moschella à South Beach, Staten Island, New York. Avant que leur chanson inspirée de la chanson pour enfants "Little Star" ne devienne un succès numéro un, le groupe se produisait principalement de manière non officielle sous la promenade, dans leurs maisons. "Little Star", écrite par Venosa et Picone, est la seule chanson du groupe à s'être vendue à un million d'exemplaires. La chanson est restée 19 semaines au Billboard Hot 100 et a reçu le statut de disque d'or.
En septembre 1958, la chanson a atteint la 25e place du hit-parade britannique des singles.
Après que "Little Star" a dominé la radio, le groupe, encore adolescent, a tourné avec des artistes tels que Buddy Holly, Dion and the Belmonts, Chuck Berry et Jerry Lee Lewis.

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Interpret: The Elegants
Titre de l'album: Back In Time (LP)
Genre R&B, Soul
Label CRYSTAL BALL
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 4000127789402
Poids en kg: 0.21

Elegants, The - Back In Time (LP) LP 1
01	What's Your Name	The Elegants
02	Deserie	The Elegants
03	Crying In The Chapel	The Elegants
04	Your Cheating Heart	The Elegants
05	My True Story	The Elegants
06	Lonesome Weekend	The Elegants
07	It's Just A Matter Of Time	The Elegants
08	Wake Up	The Elegants
09	Bluffin'	The Elegants
10	Green Eyes	The Elegants
11	Tiny Cloud	The Elegants
12	Sit There Baby	The Elegants
13	All Of A Sudden	The Elegants
14	Human Angel	The Elegants
15	Which Way Did They Go	The Elegants
16	Treasure Of Love	The Elegants

The Elegants Little Star Just as New York was ground zero for black vocal groups, now... plus

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"The Elegants"

The Elegants

Little Star

Just as New York was ground zero for black vocal groups, now a battalion of Italian-American aggregations from the same metropolis followed their lead. The Elegants hailed from Staten Island; lead singer Vito Picone and baritone Carman Romano had been members of Pat Cordel and The Crescents, whose 1956 kiddie sound single Darling Come Back, which Vito wrote, came out on the Club label.

When that ended without an encore, Vito and Carman found first tenor Artie Venosa, second tenor Frank Tardogno, and bass Jimmy Moschella to form The Elegants in 1957, taking their name from a liquor ad ("Schenley, the whiskey of elegance"). Vito and Artie brainstormed the mid-tempo Little Star as a nursery rhyme takeoff and talked Bea Kaslin of Hull and Mascot Records into recording their creation in April of 1958 along with the rocking flip Getting Dizzy (all five members penned it).

Kaslin had a habit of passing promising masters along to better-established concerns for national consumption. Instead of contacting her usual source, Leonard Chess (he'd picked up The Monotones' Book Of Love and The Pastels' Been So Long from her), Bea handed the record to ABC-Paramount, which put it out in June on its Apt (for American Paramount Theaters) subsidiary. That did the trick for The Elegants' debut: that August Little Star was the number one pop platter in the U.S. and followed suit on the R&B side.

Which makes it all the more amazing that The Elegants never cracked the Hot 100 again, despite their attractive encore Please Believe Me, taken at much the same mid-tempo clip as their smash, later in the year and a Tardogno-led True Love Affair in early '59. Kaslin put out The Elegants' Little Boy Blue on her Hull label in 1960, but that didn't regenerate their momentum. Neither did a pair of 1960 United Artists releases, nor the one-off Tiny Cloud for ABC the next year. A car wreck sidelined Vito; when he came back, he and The Elegants went their separate ways. At Laurie Records, Picone and his retooled Elegants sang on The Barbarians' 1966 rock hit Moulty. Vito later segued into the personal management biz. .

- Bill Dahl -

Various - Vol.10, Street Corner Symphonies 1958

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