Here's a great song that I was listening to last night with my Dad. The Mello Kings were pretty much a one hit wonder, but that one hit was a beauty. They weren't from the Bronx, but from neighboring Mount Vernon. So they're honorary New York City boys. Let's see if Turnbull remembers them.
No two ways about it: "Tonite Tonite" is a real classic of white doo-wop. I saw them lip-synch the song on Bandstand. I thought they were Hispanic because they seemed dark-complexioned, and used prodigious amounts of Dixie Peach in their hair (they weren't). Dixie Peach was a pomade like vaseline with scent--the poor man's Alberto VO5.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
