Danny & The Juniors - For Cool Grandkids Everywhere (2001)

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Danny & The Juniors - For Cool Grandkids Everywhere (2001)

Danny Rapp (lead tenor), Frank Maffei (second tenor), Joe Terranova (baritone/bass), and Dave White Tricker (tenor) (aka Dave White) met at

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and started singing together in the mid 1950s. Known as the Juvenaires at the time, they sang at school parties and other local events. Local record producer

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took notice of them and introduced them to local DJ's Larry Brown and Artie Singer, who had a record label known as Singular Records. In 1957, they recorded a Dave White penned song "Do the Bop", and Singer took it to a fellow DJ named

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. Clark liked it and suggested changing their name to the Juniors and re-naming their song. They rerecorded it as "At the Hop" and it became a local hit in June 1957. In December 1957, they received a call from Dick Clark to be a last minute substitution for a no-show band on

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, and they performed it for a national audience. The song became a nationwide hit after

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bought the master recording and issued it in January 1958. They soon appeared on

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, and other national TV shows. Soon after, they recorded "Rock 'n' Roll Is Here To Stay" and "Dottie", both of which charted.

In 1960, the band was signed to Dick Clark's

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, and they released one more record, "Twistin' USA". It made it into the

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, and became their final hit single. They went on to release several more singles, but were not able to repeat their earlier successes.

White left the group in the early 1960s to concentrate on

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and

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. He was very successful in this venture, composing a number of hits, including "

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" for

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, and "

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" and "Like a Baby" for

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.

Through the rest of the 1960s, the Juniors also appeared on Guyden Records,

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, and Luv Records (a subsidiary of

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), where they re-recorded "Rock 'n' Roll Is Here To Stay" in 1968. In 1973 they re-recorded At The Hop for Crunch Records, which was owned by the same company that owned their

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master recordings.

Track Listing:
01. Mary Had A Little Lamb (03:28)
02. Let's All Sing A Nursery Rhyme (04:19)
03. Zip A Dee Doo Dah (02:54)
04. Pony Express (02:30)
05. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (02:43)
06. Little Skididdle (03:48)
07. Twistin' Usa (02:27)
08. Hand Jive (03:56)
09. Hush-A-Bye (02:56)
10. At The Hop (02:36)
11. Here Comes Fonzi (02:51)
12. At The Fair (04:30)
13. Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay (02:32)
14. Over The Rainbow (03:28)
15. The Rock Keeps Rollin' (03:13)

Total Playtime: 48:11

| Genre: Pop | Label: Street Gold Records | MP3: ABR (285~320kbps) | Scans: ☑ Front @1500px | Size: 113.69 MB |

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Edited May 31, 2023 by BamSec1
BamSec1... Updated: Topic and DL links.

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