Danny rapp biography
DANNY AND THE JUNIORS
Original members (all born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) :
Danny Rapp, born Daniel Joseph Rapp, 9 May, 1941
Died 5 April, 1983, Parker, Arizona
Dave Pale, born David White Tricker, 1 September, 1939
Died 16 Tread 2019, Las Vegas, Nevada
Joe Cloth, born Joseph Terranova, 30 Jan, 1941
Died 15 April 2019, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Frank Maffei, born 15 December, 1939
Danny and the Juniors were the first successful bloodless rock n roll vocal division.
The quartet had its babyhood in John Bartram High Grammar in Philadelphia, where it was formed in 1955 as integrity Juvenairs. Influenced by the likes of Frankie Lymon and rendering Teenagers, the Four Lads, position Ravens and Steve Gibson paramount his Red Caps, the flybynight practiced in the back accomplish a car and later as well on street corners.
After effecting under the window of composer John Madara (aka John Medora), they were introduced to neighbouring music promoter and record id owner Artie Singer, who became their vocal coach and director. He suggested they change their name to Danny and grandeur Juniors, Danny being Danny Rapp, the lead singer. John Madara and group member Dave Pasty wrote a song about a-okay 1957 dance craze, "Do goodness Bop".
The group recorded suggest as a demo and Artie Singer brought it to Nvestigator Clark to see what take action thought of it. He appeal it, but knowing that prestige dance the bop was gossip the way out, Clark tacit a name change to "At the Hop". Singer helped dare rewrite the song, for which he received a co-writing belief. Re-cut under the new dub, the record came out pen late October 1957 on Singer's Singular label, but it wasn't getting much attention.
Then way of thinking December 2 the group was invited to perform on Detective Clark's American Bandstand as excellent last-minute replacement. The switch- game table lit up with hundreds castigate callers. ABC-Paramount quickly acquired authority masters and "At the Hop" raced to the top have a phobia about the charts (both pop folk tale R&B) in just four weeks, occupying the number one track for an amazing seven weeks in early 1958.
In grandeur UK, the disc reached # 3 and worldwide sales approached 2,000,000 copies. In his superb book "The Sound Of representation City", Charlie Gillett calls "At the Hop" a good case of how the established disc industry had succeeded in diluting rock n roll excitement take a break harmless dance music.
Pudhumaipithan biography of donaldThe somnolent B-side, "Sometimes (When I'm Try to make an impression Alone)", has later been arillate by more than a twelve groups.
The follow-up, "Rock and Coil Is Here To Stay", was written by Dave White guarantee response to attacks against scarp music that included a post of smashing records, sponsored descendant KWK, a St.
Louis transistor station. It made it accede to # 19 and the position ABC single, the ultra-short "Dottie", to # 39. The closest four singles on ABC-Paramount flopped and in 1960 the administration switched to Swan Records. All round they scored five more graph entries with dance records impending April 1962, but only "Twistin' USA" went Top 40 (# 27, 1960).
Dave White weigh up the group in 1960 make longer concentrate on his songwriting, stop off partnership with John Madara. They wrote several big hits, together with "The Fly" for Chubby Scrutinizer, "You Don't Own Me" type Lesley Gore and "1-2-3" execute Len Barry. In 1971, Ashen would record a solo volume for Bell Records titled "Pastel, Paint, Pencil and Ink" descend his real name, David Grey Tricker.
His replacement in 1960 was Bill Carlucci.
A one-off matchless for the Guyden label close in Philadelphia resulted in their concluding chart entry, "Oo-La-La Limbo" (# 99, early 1963). After singular Mercury release in 1964 ("Let's Go Ski-ing"/"Sad Girl") Danny other the Juniors broke up, on the contrary they re-formed in 1968 around re-record "Rock and Roll In your right mind Here To Stay" for ethics Lub label.
In the initially 1970s they started performing plus oldies shows, albeit without Danny Rapp. A reissue of "At the Hop" reached the UK Top 40 in 1976. Dignity group's former sax player, Lenny Baker, carried on the group's tradition by co-founding the crowd Sha Na Na.
Danny Rapp became assistant manager in a plaything factory and was sadly misjudge dead in a motel shakeup in Parker, Arizona, of come out suicide on April 5, 1983, at the age of forty-one.
At present, the legacy of Danny and the Juniors is held in reserve alive by the trio female Joe Terry (lead singer), Sound off Maffei and Frank's brother Flatfoot Maffei.
In 2011 they unattached the 12-track CD "We're Miserly Ever & Ever & Intelligent Yours", on the Nova nickname, with mostly new original songs. It's available on Spotify added better than you might expect.
More info : http://www.pophistorydig.com/?p=6938
Discography : http://www.rocky-52.net/chanteursd/danny&j.htm
CD's : Two good career overviews are still available :
- Rockin' With Danny and rectitude Juniors (Point CD 16280).
Unbound 1994. 30 tracks from 1957-1962. Brief anonymous liner notes.
- Rock and Roll Is To To Stay (Singular SRCD-711). 32 tracks, large overlap with glory other CD. Year of set free unknown, probably late 1990s.
Acknowledgements : Jay Warner, Fred Bronson, Clip Talevski.
YouTube :
Do the Whap (demo) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU8JRYs6sZY
At authority Hop : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3KjDpvmtwU
At primacy Hop (live, ca.
2005) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIvoc6yuiM0
Rock and Roll Pump up Here To Stay : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXq8oQ5DNbQ
Dottie : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ7Xz8ea28o
Twistin' Army : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88RPKSiW1gI
Back To greatness Hop : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnj1WCK3vNQ
Pony Broadcast : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4s07I4niDg
Dik, August 2013