Please contact me
Tommy Mitchell at Mitch@NMMusic.com
if you have any information about the groups on this website

Royal Counts

1962-68 - Jersey City, NJ

Chessmen

1960-67 - Manhattan, NY

Catamount Records
Stan R. Krause

1964 - Present - Jersey City, NJ

Five Fashions

1964-65 - Stamford, CT

Five Sharks

1964-68 - Bronx, NY

Concepts

1962-70 - Jersey City, NJ

Sparrows Quartette

1961-74 - Queens, NY

Clifton Records
& The UGHA
Ronnie I.

1976 - Present - Clifton, NJ

Five Jades

1964-09 - Bronx, NY

Cordials

1963-68 - New Rochelle, NY

14Karat Soul

1974-86 - East Orange, NJ

Vintage

1968-77 - Jersey City, NJ

Relic Records
Eddie Gries
and Donn Fileti

1962-05, Hackensack, NJ

Zircons

1961-66 - Bronx, NY

Bonaires

1969-07 - Hackensack, NJ

Holidays

1964-66 - Rockaway/Long Beach, NY

Infernos

1980-05 - Clifton, NJ

Old Timer Records

1962-66

Savoys

1963-66 - Newark, NJ

Persuasions

1964 - Present - Brooklyn, NY

Citadels-Vibraharps

1962-64 - Orangeburg, NY

Retrospect

1979-82 - Union City, NJ

Snowflake Records
Wayne Stierle

1965-02 - New York City, NY

Ecstacies

1959-82 - Philadelphia, PA

Mixed Company

1982-93 - Jersey City, NJ

Youngones

1963-65 - Brooklyn, NY

Heartaches

1961-90 - Jersey City, NJ

Versailles

1961-66 - Bronx, NY

Other Beaudaddy Web Pages

Cousin Scott's Page

Gus Gossert

Harvey Fuqua

Manhattan Transfer

HISPANIC CONTRIBUTION TO DOO-WOP

Click Here

CoolBobbyB-2007

Caddies

Stan's Square Records

Doo Bopps

Posters

Click Here

The Mandells

By Steve Kahn - 2010

Bim Bam Boom
Flamingoes - 1972

Click Here

Abe's Page

By Abe Santiago - 2010

I have been music collector of acappella, doo wopp and vocal group harmony for the last 40 years. My collection spans 70 years, from the 1931 Mills Brothers to the current acappella vocal bands featured at the Harmony Sweepstakes. When I first started to listen / collect albums, the groups on the Catamount Records label and the Best of Acappella series on Relic Records were some of my first purchases.   I considered the groups on both these lables as the "Pioneer Groups of Acappella". These were the original "Street Corner Groups" that really sang on the corner, in a candy store, tunnels beneath the highway and railroad tracks, in hallways, in store fronts after 9pm.

In 2004 and 2005 I added the Catamount Records Story - Stan R. Krause and Skippy Jackson - to include The Pioneer Acappella Groups that recorded on the Catamount Record Label in Jersey City, New Jersey. Some of the Catamount Groups contacted me with bios and photos, including past and updated history. So thats how this site started to focus on the early acappella groups. I hope to continue adding bio pages and photos of the other pioneer acappella groups. So, if you were a member of a Pioneer Acappella Group (Those that recorded before the Persuasions reached Capitol Record Label in 1971) or if you have any information concerning a Pioneer Acappella Group that recorded on any record label, please contact me Tommy Mitchell at Mitch@NMMusic.com - send me an email, pictures, updated info on these groups and I will create a webpage for them to recognize their contribution to the history of acappella.

Times Square Records

Mike Paladino's

Time Capsule Show

Uncle Marvy

Rockit Radio