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Credited to Cathy Jean and the Roommates, and promoted by leading radio DJ "Murray the K", the record rose to #12 in the Billboard pop chart in early 1961. The Roommates then had success with their own record, "Glory of Love", a song first recorded in 1936 by Benny Goodman and an R&B chart hit in 1951 for The Five Keys.
- Jerry Pilgrim, Shelly Wengrovsky, Carlos Rampolla
- Queens, New York, U.S.
- 1960–1965, 1970s, present
- Steve Susskind, Bob Minsky, Jack Carlson, Felix Alvarez, Cathy Jean Giordano
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THE ROOMATES STORY. From Kew Gardens, Queens New York, the Roommates were fifteen year old Steve Susskind and Bob Minsky of Russell Sage Junior High. Susskind o riginally sang with a local quartet called the Sparklers, but in 1959 he and Minsky became a duo. Later that year they took second place at a Forest Hills High School competition losing ...
Most of the better white doo-wop groups came from the American Northeast – New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. There was a depth to the East Coast vocal group tradition that the rest of the country lacked. White doo-wop’s best exponents sprang from lower-status minorities. By WASP standards, ‘white’ is really a misnomer ...
50s chord progression. Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, [2] mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
Access the complete album info (9 songs) 2020 Valmor Records / Spy Music Group. 20-11-2020. The Very Best Of The Roommates. 01. Come Go With Me. The Roommates. The Very Best Of The Roommates. 02:12.
The Roomates are a doo wop revival group from England founded by Steve Webb. A longtime fan of vintage rock styles, Webb was a fixture on the U.K. rockabilly revival scene in the 1980s, but by 1987, he felt the rockabilly community was losing its spark, and started devoting more time and energy to his passion for the classic vocal group sounds of the '50s and '60s, as personified by Dion and ...
