Dion & The Belmonts

A Guide to Recognising Your Saints is the quintessentially American story of a young man's hunger for experience, his dawning awareness of the bigger world across the bridge, and of the loyalties that bind him to a violent past and to the flawed and desperate saints that have guided him.

A streetwise meetings with remarkable men, with echoes of Whitman and Kerouac, Saturday Night Fever and Dion and the Belmonts.

Dito tasted short-lived notoriety as a model for

Versace and Calvin Klein and as the leader

So those are the three stars that were focused on for these episodes, and they decide to join a tour called the Winter Dance Party.

Also in this tour, in addition to the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, and Richie Valens, Frankie Sardo was on the tour along with Dion and the Belmonts.

Dion and the Belmonts had a ton of hits.

including Teenager in Love and I Wonder Why.

Dion would also later go solo with hits like Run Around Sue and The Wanderer, which have all been added to the Spotify

We got more hits coming up from the '50s and '60s.

Right now, we got Dion and The Belmonts, A Teenager in Love.

More music, less talk, right here, right now.

Ooh, wa-oo.

And I'm looking, we have the advertisement for it.

So it's like the Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Frankie Avalon, Dion and the Belmonts.

Who else? The Cadillacs.

It's a long list.

And Gene Chandler's vocals on Duke of Earl are exquisite.

I've also been enjoying key texts like Coney Island Baby by The Excellence and I Wonder Why by Dion and the Belmonts.

I just love a bit of doo-wop.

Can you remember, there's one of Dad's B-sides, one of his singles.