Friday, March 30, 2012

Gloria - The Five Sharks -[Alternate Version].wmv

Gloria - The Five Sharks -[Alternate Version].wmv

this song send to me by my friendEddie Black,Thanks for this page to Tommy Mitchell,,,,The Five Sharks Bronx, New York 1964 -1968 An Acappella Street Corner Vocal Group,,The Five Sharks started in the lunch room of Taft High School in The Bronx 1964. Eddie Black, Henry Levy, Mark Dinep and Mario Ibenez -who later became the lead singer of The Zirkons- harmonize in the school stairwell. One night me, Mark and Henry went to a dance at Saint Tolentines High School, where we met a guy named DJ or at least that is what he called himself, he had a 45 record with him of a group he had just recorded named The Rueteens - Formerly Jimmy and The Crestones, who recorded a song called Angel Maureen. He invited us over his house to hear it, while at his house, a friend of his came by - named Larry Rosenzweig- and we had four guys. Larry also sang, so we tried a few songs and the blend was great. DJ wanted to record us, that was our start.We started recording for Bobby Miller at Cat Time R! ecords. Our harmony was very high and Bobby suggested a bass , so we sang with several basses and none clicked. Then we heard a bunch of guys harmonizing in a store front, the bass was pretty good we asked him to try out , his voice clicked and so did his personality, now we had five steady guys. About two years later Larry got drafted and Henry drifted away. They were replaced by Kenny Bank, baritone and Henry (Sal) Salis as second tenor with myself as first tenor and some time lead and Mark as main ...





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