Sonny Geraci

Sonny Geraci  (b. 22 November 1947) is an American musician and singer, best known as the former lead singer of musical groups The Outsiders and Climax.  Sonny Geraci is born of Italian heritage and has Italian-American family in the greater Cleveland area.  (More from Wikipedia)

Name changes are sometimes not up to you.  As I wrote many years ago, when the Starfires came up with their signature song “Time Won’t Let Me”, Capitol Records told them to pick a new name, so they came up with the Outsiders.  Later, Sonny Geraci and Tom King were each heading up a band called the Outsiders; when King legally won the rights to the name, Geraci’s band – which included Outsiders guitarist Walter Nims – changed their name to Climax and had an even bigger hit with a Nims song, “Precious and Few”.  

(June 2014)