@jim doe Please tell us more about your uncle. Not many people understand what it was like then, so different than what it is like now.
@bpabustan5 ай бұрын
was it Arthur Venosa or Vito Picone?
@TerryHarrisontbh9 жыл бұрын
Wow, this is a real piece of music history. Thanks for posting it here.
@alexandersmith13916 жыл бұрын
If I had a time machine, the first place I would go is to wherever this was recorded, and just watch this happen. Can you imagine what it must have been like to be there for this? The best do-wop song of all time, sung a capella: these guys are singing their buts off. Just magnificent, whoever you are who posted this, thank you more than I can ever say. this is the single best thing on KZfaq, ever.
@ricknelson696 жыл бұрын
Thank you Alex, you are very welcome! Greetings from Germany!
@alexandersmith13914 жыл бұрын
@@ricknelson69 it still resonates like the first time I ever heard it. Still, no matter where you are, this is as good as it gets. I will love this song until I die.
@krobigraubart8 жыл бұрын
Carman Romano, baritone and co-founder of the Staten Island doo-wop group, the Elegants, died Tuesday (August 2, 2016), just short of his 77th birthday. He started with the Crescents, along with Pat Cordell on lead in 1955 and after the group broke up, two years later, he & Vito Picone formed the Elegants.
@marilynbiggica41917 жыл бұрын
Very sorry to have lost this incredible person. So glad he was part of the legendary Elegants. Wonderful that Vito is keeping this group alive & performing. Can't wait for the 60th anniversary of Little Star
@brucer1210 жыл бұрын
One gem of a recording.
@robshannon12 жыл бұрын
Little Star was so big when it came out. Our 7th grade music teacher used to let us sing it in music class. We were so cool.
@maj277611 жыл бұрын
We are from the Blue Mountains of Sydney that this music is still alive and can be listened to and appreciated long after the decades have passed. I must thank KZfaq for making this possible and people like you who can showcase it.
@errolflynn4517 жыл бұрын
fantastic!! the vocals are killer!
@vodkamarie4 жыл бұрын
Fabulous post. This is how it all started.
@ChipNSC7711 жыл бұрын
That's awesome. I'm in my 30's and love this song. Dad listens to it quite often on his Doo Wop CD.
@magpieeye32397 жыл бұрын
WOW! This great! They should release this TODAY and see what happens! :) I mean listen to this it's perfect and no instruments at all!
@mikecampbell27889 жыл бұрын
This one is better than the popular version. Thanks Betty Jean,.
@edhaffey44007 жыл бұрын
Mike Campbell I don't know if it's better but it's different. I like it.
@thebigfist9 жыл бұрын
Wow,Rick!I can`t believe this original acappella tape exists! great,Great,GREAT!
@zpigman843510 жыл бұрын
Wow the demo is just as great as the 1958 release! The drum beat in the 1958 released hit version is ahead of it's time. Sounds more like 1961 style doo-wop in the released 1958 version! This demo is quite amazing!
@felipesants8936Ай бұрын
A BLAST FROM THE PAST. THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS BEAUTIUL SONG
@pab19418 жыл бұрын
One of the best of the doo wop bunch.
@ringo2447 жыл бұрын
Nothing better than acapella.Rock on
@hamstersniffer11 жыл бұрын
Oh my heavens, that was real music. Thanks so much for posting it.
@Gurkan11211 жыл бұрын
Great. That's heaven.
@eliortegajr97107 жыл бұрын
Yes, a truly wonderful gem to find. Thanks!
@danrisley44186 жыл бұрын
I can't even say how much I enjoyed that blast from the past.. I just found this record (45) in a stack and didn't recognize the name!!!!!!!!!! I do now and it sounds great. Thanks
@brucer1214 жыл бұрын
One of the classic songs from the late fifties--great harmony.
@cirilomartinez98509 жыл бұрын
This song make me feel so good
@cdsnow-dr1gk5 жыл бұрын
This is an excellent version Little Star ...I love it !!!! doo-wop forever!!
@ArtGoldInk12 жыл бұрын
This is great! Man just good old fashioned harmonizing! I love Doo Wop!
@yourghostlovelletter Жыл бұрын
This is absolutely beautiful the vocals! it's relaxing really what lovely music there was back then I wish it was still made 😭
@pab19415 жыл бұрын
The making of one of the greatest doo-wop songs ever. See the 1958 finished product.
@bjornhammar58594 ай бұрын
Thank you for the clear acapella version. Highly appreciated.
@garyvandecar25803 жыл бұрын
Best song from the year 1958 bar none.
@jctorontojctoronto13 жыл бұрын
a very special YT entry. needs to stay for a long time. true americana....and we need all the touchstones we can find these days. jctoronto
@rubadubu11212 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1943, so, I heard this when I was abt 14 yrs. I think I had a transister radio when I walked to the school buss.
@0Alltheworldsastage9 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!! Thank you!
@sloopynumber1 Жыл бұрын
Pure talent. This really is a blast from the past. Love it!
@johnabramson10319 ай бұрын
This i a wonderful demo, acapella, yet smooth as silk.
@fatbowe13 жыл бұрын
...Wow Just Super fantastic...
@coldnebraskanite12 жыл бұрын
Studio version of the song reached #1 for 1 week late in August 1958 ... Billboard's third #1 song after it expanded to a "Hot 100" in July of that year. I remember this song from "American Bandstand" ... wow! Great demo!
@rebelbaron70034 жыл бұрын
Utterly fabulous.....yeah Im up with that. Please bring back the doo op 50s. Sweet,lovely music,pretty harmonizing,the English language in its finest. Cars.....movies.....milk shajes.....holding hands..... simple romance......good lyrics without profanity and vulgar ghetto language. Yeah....Im all the way in.
@oldstuffandcollect14 жыл бұрын
i love the elegants great ricky
@FAUSTORICCARDO11 жыл бұрын
Beautiful a cappella song
@maxinestannard94636 жыл бұрын
Your 100% right-on----all cappella--amazing!
@sal44luvsbrenda5013 жыл бұрын
Simply Superb! Brings back many GREAT Memories Thank You
@Howieshet14 жыл бұрын
Pure Gold. Tough stuff
@johntaylor2944 жыл бұрын
2020 STILL LISTENING !
@georgegeranios2918 Жыл бұрын
One of my favorites as a zygote. Cool to hear the demo! Oh yeah, i still have ALL my 45's.
@tubonym5512 жыл бұрын
Wow, so great the hear this! Little Star is the earliest musical memory I have. I was just a toddler when it came out, but for some reason, it stayed in my mind. It was those harmonies and the "Ohohohoh ratta ratta tatta tooo". I carried it around inside of me for must have been forty something years before finally finding out what it was - "Hey THAT'S the song I remember from so long ago". Thanks for posting!
@marilynbiggica41917 жыл бұрын
So sorry to hear about Carman's death. He was part of the Elegants who made history in the late 50's. So glad Vito is keeping the group active & performing. Wonderful that Little Star will have its 60th anniversary next year. Hope Vito sends me an invitation.
@cynthia663711 жыл бұрын
LOVE THIS INDEED..
@Wolfsky914 жыл бұрын
This is amazing; it also shows how much the hit version evolved. So rarely do we ever get to hear anything like this! Thank-you so much, from a Nice Italian Boy who was there, Late Summer of '58, 11 y/o, & so in love with this song! Wolfsky9
@TheTrollMastah2 жыл бұрын
Ah, working at Burger King when I was like 16/17 and all we had was an oldies CD and this song was one of many good oldies
@DWatchtower112 жыл бұрын
I remeber it too! I was riding my swinn bike. I was around twelve years old. This song was a huge hit and like you it stayed in my mind. Me and my buddy Carl Hodge (d) used to sing it alot. It played on WEAM radio. hosted by DJ Jhonny Dark in D.C.
@brucer1212 жыл бұрын
Harmony plus in its purest form--love this song--thx so much.
@Malevelous12 жыл бұрын
Woke from a dream with this song in my head, did't know where it came from, but my dad did. He thought they played it at his prom in' 61. He sang it to me when I was very little and learning Twinkle Twinkle little star, his version was different from mine, and better!
@vinniechavez431011 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!
@barbarapineda9062 Жыл бұрын
These Italians, dudes, can sangs and dances, they so elegantly with their's, olives skin blk hairs brw, hairs, handsome too..poor creatures they had suffered but today their's ancestry its better, then their's, great-grand parental, grand parental, moved on latin' that's lifes,
@psr200213 жыл бұрын
You can't put a price on being able to hear this early version of a classic. I absolutely flipped over The Elegants when I heard them as a kid, and I'll always love this song and their rendition of it. Thanks so much for sharing it!
@claudettepreisinger11 жыл бұрын
Beautiful accapella vocals! Great find! Thanks for posting!
@13loomisst12 жыл бұрын
Fascinating, the journey that lay ahead. Thanks very much.
@yilishihfu6 жыл бұрын
One of my all-time favorites!
@Jeffs45rpm14 жыл бұрын
Great stuff....demo disc...Vito Picone and the Elegants...classic and vintage. Fiftys4ever
@dogtowncurve12 жыл бұрын
Great stuff - Great memories!! So thankful that I was a teenager in the Doo Wop era. Such good times!!
@Jeffs45rpm11 жыл бұрын
Truly some great Accapella stuff...Arthur Venosa, Veto Picone and Jimmy M and Frank. The Elegants! This is a treasure and can never be duplicated ever! Ratta tattaaa too! Jefffs45rpm
@truknights6 жыл бұрын
the elegants were unknown until Allentown, pa.....they made a deal with gene kay ...if they did a store opening...gene would play the record on the radio....it went viral...within a few weeks it went to number one...the elegants put on a great show...what talent...only the best....it was tough to get your demo played...or heard....
@NeverSleepAgainTV5 жыл бұрын
Dean Ritter wow I love in Bethlehem right next to allentown
@kskk936812 жыл бұрын
This is hard to believe to hear this~ pure gold
@12014343lk14 жыл бұрын
Ricknelson69...This is one of the best all time posta on You Tube ! One of a kind! America was simple and great with doo wop. You Tube helps us remember and show to our youth.
@brucer1213 жыл бұрын
One big hit for these guys--it doesnt get any better--thx for the share.
@chiefslief18866 ай бұрын
Wow❤!!!
@RKTca769 жыл бұрын
Nicely done.
@w10378 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this song !!!
@niccoarcadia41793 жыл бұрын
This is almost unbelievable! Thanks!
@MrJim93714 жыл бұрын
Awesome, thanks...Jim937 [Staten Island NY]
@ronitsingh858 жыл бұрын
daat daat, what lovely melody, wish someone could break the silence in the middle of a large crowd and chant such verses from this time,
@petersimmons13603 жыл бұрын
It's actually "Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-toooo..." GREAT song!
@ronitsingh853 жыл бұрын
Peter Simmons LOVE IT! I am listening to it again. II think each time we progress with technology we keep loosing a bit of God given humanity with it.
@ricknelson6914 жыл бұрын
@Wolfsky9 Thank you very much for your fantastic comment!!!
@alanhfrank13 жыл бұрын
I hadn't heard this before. I love it. Thanks for sharing.
@ricknelson6911 жыл бұрын
it´s the original demo. Search for The Elegants - Little star!
@jasperklks14 жыл бұрын
wow!
@noalittleaboutlot12 жыл бұрын
Solid Gold. Thank you so much for the post.
@Adrianafaith1233 жыл бұрын
Wow nothing digitalized just pure raw talent.
@MadEagleUSA4 жыл бұрын
Excellent!!
@thecountofbasie13 жыл бұрын
Amazing...never heard this one either....fantabulous post....5*****
@oldiesrnow14 жыл бұрын
I agree with you, Rick. What a fantastic find, thanks for posting!
@ricknelson6913 жыл бұрын
@psr2002 Welcome!! And thank´s for your comment!
@elipop77713 жыл бұрын
wow great
@sWeepingsAnd12 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks for this upload!
@s90skank13 жыл бұрын
THANKS!
@Betsy44013 жыл бұрын
Wow! I never heard this version before! This is wonderful! Thanks so much!
@Gurkan11211 жыл бұрын
:-) I love it
@johnwdavisjr10 жыл бұрын
Great!
@CharlieMessing11 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this demo! I still have the 45...a gem.
@MsLizHicks4 жыл бұрын
❤️❤️
@mercdan13 жыл бұрын
ITS GREAT THANKS REALLY ENJOYED IT
@GeneHill10 жыл бұрын
alias inkhorn A capella and doo wop. Unbeatable.
@ricknelson6914 жыл бұрын
@12014343lk I´m glad you found it here ! Your comment means a lot to me!!
@ricknelson6913 жыл бұрын
@TheMickster53 Thank you! Glad you like it!
@ricknelson6913 жыл бұрын
@WmLeeClarke Thanks! Glad you like it!
@ViolaPressley5 жыл бұрын
Okay, I have heard this song. Sounds great. I'm familiar with this. Great demo.
@maxp84973 жыл бұрын
Yea
@k4xs12 жыл бұрын
Usually don't say this...It's better than the original.