Brooklyn Kings downtown Brooklyn

Absolutely fantastic! Joey and Doreen are extremely talented.

Grt performance So Young on another level

Love 😂you two, I'm in Nutley when and where can I see you?

I really enjoyed this interview😊

Ernie, the bass, is fantastic and 5:17 handsome

WOW ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Remarkable storytelling. Thank you Jimmy for the history and the music!

Fantastic singing group! Ernie, the bass, is especially great.

The Salutations did an a capella they ain't no joke

They are terrific!

I miss you grandpa

Go Donna go!!!!!! 🎶🎤😊

These guys are so entertaining. I was totally blown away with their versions of One Fine Day, I'm So Young, and Yakety Sax. Apparently, this couple can do anything they set their minds to. ❤❤❤

Mr. Salek-thank you for this. If you ever see Pookie’s family or other Spaniels-please tell them, “Thank you” from the world.

The female lead is simply AWESOME

You guy'a are grreat,with the music back ground. I used to sing with Hutch &Peter DeBenadetto (Johnny James) second tenor 🪖 🎤 ☘️ 🌿 🚣

Daddys Home. Very smooth.

Jimmy probably didn't use drugs or drink I don't no for sure but I think he didnt

Great sound and video! 😎

how do I get in tough with Ernest? i have an old business card where the number on the card is not in service

Who needs an instrument when you have voices like this, great harmony. Rock on...

I didn't like the 1998 film Why Do Fools Fall In Love starring Larenz Tate. I thought he was grossly miscast and the film really didn't delve into the depth of how the group was established and the phenomenal impact that they inspired among future boy and girl vocal groups. There should be a major feature-length film developed to chronicle the early beginnings of the group and how they went on to change the era of Rock and roll music forever.

I was really disappointed by the 1998 film, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" starring Larenz Tate and Halle Berry. I felt that the film did a grave disservice to the legacy of the group and what's more, actor Larenz Tate was sadly miscast as the precocious vocal dynamo, Frankie Lymon. Group member Jimmy Merchant gives a very detailed background of how the group was formed and how their sound helped to popularize, future vocal boy & girl groups" that would emerge in the coming decades. Many documentaries often overlook the four older members, Sherman Garnes, Jimmy Merchant, Herman Santiago, and Joe Negroni while focusing solely on Frankie Lymon. They were talented, good-looking, and could dance as effectively as they could harmonize. It's a shame how their record company took advantage of them and failed to groom them for stardom. As a result, they would be subjected to years of obscurity and be almost forgotten until Diana Ross reemerged interest in their unique sound with her cover of their monumental 1956 hit, "Why Do Fools Fall In love" in 1981.

Why isn't Herman Santiago with Jimmy in the interview? Is he still with us?

I saw these guys at The Cutting Room for the Wall Street Rocks benefit recently and they sounded amazing. Their song Back At The Bar Again is fantastic! Thanks for posting, Ed Salek!

totally amazing

I believe your father sponsored me on the Pro Bowlers tour 1969-1970. Last time I saw him was in Winston Salem,NC Feb of 1971. He was a wonderful man. He also went bye Sam Merchant.

LOVE this cover band my D I L snd Don brought me to Asbury Park on my birthday 1/11/2020 & surprised me with dinner and a show with Gypsy! When I was in the restroom at the restaurant where she was reforming.. swear to you it seemed like it was actually Stevie Knicks!! Sounds like her !! It was a magical show and so cherishable sharing time with my son and daughter in law with their thoughtful surprise to me it was pivotal it was 70 degrees that night out on the beach outside and the last Birthday we would share together b4 the world changed horrifically by the dark ones in the spring ……..

The lead singer can sing but he needs some personality big time.

Brooklyn Connection are fantastic 👍👍👍👍👍

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Love this group!

Miss you Lou! RIP. Love and sympathies to Hildy, your family and the band.

Great voice - Lilian . All performers sing with. Feeling'. , unlike today's pop artists.

Great singers and even more importantly a great bunch of guys. RIP Joe, you were a kind and special person who will be missed

Just tobe With U ; Dont Say Goodnight , Amoree, Chains of love, Geewhizz , Hippy hipy Shake, Respe ct, Some Kinda Wonderful - v well sung .

'distortion' guitar.

-😅Good version of Do U love Me, espe th keybord player. Th 3 girls in red dreses sang well, as did sh e that sang I only wantto bewith U. I dislike

They've chosen some difficult songs: Take Me as I am, Th Angels Sang, Tonight, Chapel of Dreams . Best performance 😊Th Solitairs - original - Walking Along cannot be betterd , I didn't know they were stil performing in 2004.

Good version of Upon Th Roof - 1 of my favorit 7:01

First song - in th style of Fra. Ly mon , this & 2nd song -ok, but Step by Step was out of tune , tho Th Crests version cannot be betterd. - good renditions of Cant We b Sweetharts & Teardrops, tho my favorit version is by Th Fleetwoods. Th lady singer does a very good interpretation of Fra Lymon.

Great group. Haven't listened to them in a while. Still, I miss Mickey.

FANTASTIC !!!!

These are great , its 4 am & I cant put th sm phone down & goto bed ! We dont have singers like them in UK. Th Versatiles did th 1961 uptempo novelty song 'Speedilac'.

Pookie is the man!

I congratulate these guys for their efforts to sing some difficult songs. But I think many of th songs would sound better with percussion , bass & piano

Great lead....background in nice harmony

The Spaniels were one of my earliest influences in music. Day after day I would sing along with their records. That was in the fifties. In the sixties I had the honor of performing with Gerald Gregory and some of the other Spaniels at a show in Langhorne, Pa. I was singing top tenor for The "Original" Duprees. Tom Bialoglow Founding Member of The "Original" Duprees.

Outstanding, never be another Kenny Vance and the talent he brings together.