VITO AND THE SALUTATIONS
Vito & the Salutations is an Italian/Irish/Jewish-American New York City doo wop group from the 1960s. They scored a success in Summer of 1963 with an up-tempo version of the song “Unchained Melody”, which reached number 66 on the Cash Box hit parade and made the top ten in many cities. The group existed from 1961–1967, with a reunion concert performed at Hunter College in 1971. The group’s doo wop version of “Unchained Melody” has been included in several movies, most notably the 1990 film Goodfellas. It also can be heard in the Sci-Fi Dine-In restaurant at Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World. (More from Wikipedia)
The flip side of the hit single “At the Hop” by Danny and the Juniors was the David White song “Sometimes (When I’m All Alone)”; according to Wikipedia (as taken from the article on David White): “‘Sometimes (When I’m All Alone)’ became a favorite of a lot of street corner groups just starting out who later became successful, including the Capris, the Chimes, the Cleftones, the Young Rascals, the Del Satins, the Dovells, the Elegants, the Impalas, the Earls, Randy and the Rainbows, the Tokens. the Vogues, and Vito and the Salutations among others.”
(August 2015)
