Gaudio had been playing piano since he turned eight in 1950. Pianist Bob Gaudio was 14 years old when he became the group’s co-founder. He had been playing the drum since he was a child growing up in Fort Lee, Bergen County, New Jersey. Haywood Henry was one of the musicians in the recording studio for “Tuxedo Junction”, “Until The Real Thing Comes Along”, “Five O’Clock Whistle” and “Bicycle Bounce” – all hit records on the pop music charts.Ĭontinue reading → #316: Believe Me by Royal Teensĭrummer Tom Austin was a founding member of The Royals in 1956 when he was 17 years old.
Erskine Hawkins Orchestra participated in a battle of the bands with bandleaders Glenn Miller, Lionel Hampton and Duke Ellington. Their sign-off song was “Tuxedo Junction”. Hawkins and his orchestra were a house band at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the late 1930s. Heywood Henry was a member of the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra from 1934 into the early 1950s. That student jazz band became the band for Erskine Hawkins Orchestra in 1934. While in college he became a member of the Bama State Collegians in 1930. But he later learned the baritone saxophone, which became his primary instrument. Next he worked as a sole back tacker and tack machine operator at the International Shoe Company.Ĭontinue reading → #440: Velvet Waters by the Megatronsįrank Haywood Henry was born in 1913 in Birmingham, Alabama. He first learned to play the clarinet. Barkley, who later became President Harry Truman’s Vice-President. As he grew up Ray Smith worked as a curb hop at Price’s Barbecue at 34th and Broadway where he would serve U.S. He worked as a gopher on a Coca-Cola Truck and then operated an oven at Kirchoff’s Bread plant in Paducah. Smith left his home at the age of twelve. His dad later worked at the atomic bomb plant in Paducah. Smith was the seventh son of a sharecropper who, in turn, was also the seventh son in Smith’s grandfather’s family. Ray Smith was born in 1934 in the hamlet of Melber, Kentucky, thirteen miles from the town of Paducah where the Ohio River and the Tennessee River meet. He placed 53 songs on the Billboard singles charts between 19.Ĭontinue reading → #390: That’s All Right by Ray Smith who starred alongside his family in the long-running television series, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952–66), as well as co-starring alongside John Wayne and Dean Martin in the western Rio Bravo (1959). A child actor, Ricky was also a musician and singer-songwriter.
On February 20, 1949, while still eight years old, he took the stage name of Ricky Nelson when appearing on the radio program, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ did not chart But his real passion was music.Ĭontinue reading → #309: One Minute To One by Ricky Nelson Vespa and Italian engines were of great interest to Rocco. At the age of fifteen his father let him drop out of school to start working as a mechanic in a Vespa-shop. At school in Belgium, Rocco continue the solfège lessons he had started in Italy. But Salvatore felt so lonely in Belgium and sent for his family, his wife Ida and his two young children Rocco and Wanda. His father had moved to Belgium the year before and intended to return to Italy. When he was ten years old he left sunny Calabria for the coal Belgian mining district. He is an Italian-Belgian singer, songwriter, and accordionist. Rocco Granata was born in 1938 in Figline Vegliaturo, Calabria, in southern Italy. Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #31/#42 #178: Marina by Rocco Granata/Willy Alberti
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