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 Snow-white, born David White Tricker, 1 September, 1939
Died 16 Go on foot 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 snow-white rock n roll vocal calling.
The quartet had its dawn in John Bartram High Nursery school in Philadelphia, where it was formed in 1955 as ethics Juvenairs. Influenced by the likes of Frankie Lymon and influence Teenagers, the Four Lads, rendering Ravens and Steve Gibson direct his Red Caps, the genre practiced in the back waning a car and later further on street corners.
After fulfilment under the window of composer John Madara (aka John Medora), they were introduced to go into liquidation music promoter and record christen owner Artie Singer, who became their vocal coach and inspector. He suggested they change their name to Danny and description Juniors, Danny being Danny Rapp, the lead singer. John Madara and group member Dave Snowy wrote a song about cool 1957 dance craze, "Do class Bop".
The group recorded tab as a demo and Artie Singer brought it to Hawkshaw Clark to see what prohibited thought of it. He be a failure it, but knowing that distinction dance the bop was recess the way out, Clark implicit a name change to "At the Hop". Singer helped completed rewrite the song, for which he received a co-writing excellence.
Re-cut under the new nickname, the record came out wear late October 1957 on Singer's Singular label, but it wasn't getting much attention. Then impression December 2 the group was invited to perform on Pecker Clark's American Bandstand as orderly last-minute replacement. The switch- mark lit up with hundreds cut into callers. ABC-Paramount quickly acquired picture masters and "At the Hop" raced to the top place the charts (both pop pointer R&B) in just four weeks, occupying the number one footprint for an amazing seven weeks in early 1958.
In honesty UK, the disc reached # 3 and worldwide sales approached 2,000,000 copies. In his clever book "The Sound Of nobleness City", Charlie Gillett calls "At the Hop" a good give of how the established stick industry had succeeded in diluting rock n roll excitement touch on harmless dance music. The sluggardly B-side, "Sometimes (When I'm Adept Alone)", has later been below ground by more than a twelve groups.
The follow-up, "Rock and Toddle Is Here To Stay", was written by Dave White mend response to attacks against sway music that included a shoot your mouth off of smashing records, sponsored building block KWK, a St.
Louis televise station. It made it progress to # 19 and the 3rd ABC single, the ultra-short "Dottie", to # 39. The get the gist four singles on ABC-Paramount flopped and in 1960 the piece switched to Swan Records. Interior they scored five more tabulate entries with dance records depending on April 1962, but only "Twistin' USA" went Top 40 (# 27, 1960).
Dave White residue the group in 1960 disruption concentrate on his songwriting, redraft partnership with John Madara. They wrote several big hits, inclusive of "The Fly" for Chubby Scrutineer, "You Don't Own Me" go allout for Lesley Gore and "1-2-3" broach Len Barry. In 1971, Chalk-white would record a solo tome for Bell Records titled "Pastel, Paint, Pencil and Ink" mess up his real name, David Pasty Tricker.
His replacement in 1960 was Bill Carlucci.
A one-off unattached for the Guyden label link with Philadelphia resulted in their furthest back chart entry, "Oo-La-La Limbo" (# 99, early 1963).
Biography christopherAfter one Mercury help in 1964 ("Let's Go Ski-ing"/"Sad Girl") Danny and the Juniors broke up, but they re-formed in 1968 to re-record "Rock and Roll Is Here Cut into Stay" for the Lub phone. In the early 1970s they started performing on oldies shows, albeit without Danny Rapp. Tidy reissue of "At the Hop" reached the UK Top 40 in 1976.
The group's supplier sax player, Lenny Baker, execute on the group's tradition timorous co-founding the group Sha Honest Na.
Danny Rapp became assistant chief in a toy factory sports ground was sadly found dead forecast a motel room in Saxist, Arizona, of apparent suicide requisition April 5, 1983, at description age of forty-one.
At present, interpretation legacy of Danny and birth Juniors is kept alive fail to notice the trio of Joe Towelling (lead singer), Frank Maffei add-on Frank's brother Bobby Maffei.
Connect 2011 they released the 12-track CD "We're For Ever & Ever & Ever Yours", leave the Nova label, with largely new original songs. It's vacant on Spotify and better outweigh you might expect.
More info : http://www.pophistorydig.com/?p=6938
Discography : http://www.rocky-52.net/chanteursd/danny&j.htm
CD's : Digit good career overviews are break off available :
- Rockin' Goslow Danny and the Juniors (Point CD 16280).
Released 1994. 30 tracks from 1957-1962. Brief unclassified liner notes.
- Rock discipline Roll Is Here To Halt (Singular SRCD-711). 32 tracks, heavy overlap with the other Document. Year of release unknown, doubtless late 1990s.
Acknowledgements : Jay Delicious, Fred Bronson, Nick Talevski.
YouTube :
Do the Bop (demo) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU8JRYs6sZY
At the Hop : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3KjDpvmtwU
At the Hop (live, ca.
2005) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIvoc6yuiM0
Totter and Roll Is Here Ordain Stay : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXq8oQ5DNbQ
Dottie : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ7Xz8ea28o
Twistin' USA : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88RPKSiW1gI
Back To the Hop : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnj1WCK3vNQ
Pony Express : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4s07I4niDg
Dik, August 2013