Dovells
Originally called the Brooktones, this Philadelphia-based R&B vocal group comprised Len Barry (b. Leonard Borisoff), Jerry Summers (b. Jerry Gross), Mike Dennis (b. Michael Freda) and Danny Brooks (b. Jim Meeley). Signed to the Parkway Records label, the group scored a US number 2 hit in 1961 with Bristol Stomp, succeeded the following year with the Top 40 hits, Do The Continental, Bristol Twistin Annie’ and Hully Gully Baby, all of which became dance favourites of the era. Len Barry was responsible for introducing their contemporaneous friends, the Orlons, to Cameo Records and after the departure of Brooks, in 1962, the Dovells scored another major US hit with a cover of the Phil Upchurch Combo hit, You Can't Sit Down. Barry departed the group later that year and they continued as a trio. The Dovells later recorded for MGM Recordsin the late '60s under the name of the Magistrates but met with little success.