"Classic Rock" 1910 Fruitgum Company Ron Dante & Group Signed Mounted Poster

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"Classic Rock" 1910 Fruitgum Company & Ron Dante Signed Mounted Poster. Signers from the 1910 Fruitgum Company are; Frank Jeckell, Mick Mansuetto, Glenn Lewis, Keith Crane and Eric Lipper.
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The
1910
Fruitgum Company
is an American
bubblegum pop
band
of the 1960s. The group's
Billboard Hot 100
hits
were "
Simon Says
",
"May I Take a Giant Step", "
1, 2, 3, Red Light
",
"Goody Goody Gumdrops", "
Indian Giver
",
"Special Delivery", and "The Train".
The band
began as Jeckell and The Hydes in
New Jersey
in 1966. The original members were Frank
Jeckell, Mark Gutkowski, Floyd Marcus, Pat Karwan and Steve Mortkowitz - all
from
Linden, New Jersey
.
During 1967, they were signed to
Buddah Records
, where they released five
LPs
under their own name and a variety of
singles
, as well as appearing on the LP
The
Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus
, which sounded like the usual
Buddah
studio
band in spite
of its promotion as a "bubblegum superjam". Their first hit single,
"Simon Says", was written by Elliot Chiprut. During the recording
process, the band changed the beat and patterned the song after "
Wooly Bully
" by
Sam the Sham and the
Pharaohs
. "Simon Says" soon became a success, hitting #4
on the
US
Billboard
Hot 100
chart
. The track peaked at #2 on the
UK Singles Chart
and was heard in the 1968
Frederick Wiseman
documentary
High School
.
[
The band started touring, opening for major acts such as
The Beach Boys
. They also released these other chart hits:
"May I Take a Giant Step" (U.S. #63), "
1, 2, 3, Red Light
"
(U.S. #5), "Special Delivery" (U.S. #38), "Goody, Goody
Gumdrops" (U.S. #37), "
Indian Giver
" (U.S.
#5) and "The Train" (U.S. #57). The original group disbanded in
1970.
In the years of 1979-1980 the band was briefly resurrected
through Jolly Joyce Agency out of Philadelphia with members Chuck Allen, Fred
Eyer, Tony DiNiso, Cindy Tritz, Mike Schneider and Kevin.
[
In
1999, original member Frank Jeckell and Mick Mansueto put the act back
together. As of 2019, Fruitgum currently performs its own hits, in addition
other songs from the 1960s.
Ron
Dante
(born
Carmine
John Granito
, August 22, 1945) is an
American
singer
,
songwriter
,
session vocalist
, and
record producer
. Dante is best known as the real life lead
singer of the fictional cartoon band
The Archies
; he was also the voice of
The Cuff Links
and co-produced
Barry Manilow
's first nine albums. He was born in
Staten Island
,
New York
, United States. The Archies single “
Sugar, Sugar
,” written and composed by producer
Jeff Barry
with
Andy Kim
, was the number-one selling record of 1969 in the
United States. Four years earlier, Dante had been a member of the parody
group
The Detergents
, who
recorded a novelty song called "Leader of the Laundromat." Concurrent
with his work on the Archies project, Dante was also employed as a session
singer and performed many television and commercial jingles. In 1969 Dante
recorded an album under the group name of
The Cuff Links
– a collaboration with Detergents
songwriter-producers
Paul Vance
and
Lee Pockriss
. He provided both lead and background vocals
through
overdubbing
, as he did with most of the
male Archies vocals. For three weeks in October 1969, Dante had two hits in the
Top Ten of
Billboard's Hot 100
: both the Cuff Links' "
Tracy
"
and, on its way down from number one, the Archies' "Sugar, Sugar",
though neither single's label credited the anonymous studio singer. Dante's
extensive vocal range includes
falsetto
, as used in "Jingle Jangle", the Archies'
Top Ten follow-up to "Sugar, Sugar".
Dante's first album
release under his own name, which he recorded on
Don Kirshner
's label, was
Ron Dante Brings You Up
in
1970. In 1972, also under the supervision of Kirshner, Dante became lead
vocalist for another cartoon group,
The Chan Clan
.
He provided lead vocals for a number of songs on the 1972 album,
Spiderman :
From Beyond the Grave, A Rockcomic
credited to The Webspinners. Ron Dante appeared on a 1975 CBS TV pilot show
called
Hip Patches
. He is interviewed by a group of young musicians
in a band named Silvermoon who were meant to be the stars of the show. On that
show, he is introduced as the voice of "all five Archies" and
explains to the audience what it takes to be a successful band.In 1979, he
recorded a disco album under the name
Dante's Inferno
for
the
Infinity Records
label,
and in 1981 his second solo album
Street Angel
was released.
Also in 1979, Dante performed the theme to the NBC television series
$weepstake$
:
"Don't Be Afraid To Dream," whose lyrics were written by
Norman Gimbel
with music composed by
Charles Fox
. From 1973 to
1981, Dante was the record producer for singer
Barry Manilow
, and often sang backup on Manilow's recordings,
including his 1974 No. 1 single "
Mandy
." Dante
continued to record sporadically during those years; in 1975, with Manilow as
the producer, Dante released a dance version of "Sugar, Sugar" under
his own name. In 1978, Dante produced the
Tony Award
-winning musical
revue
,
Ain't Misbehavin'
,
on
Broadway
. During this
period, Dante, who was a
Manhattan
neighbor of
George Plimpton
, was invited to serve as the publisher of
the
Paris Review,
and
whose publisher he served from 1978 to 1985.As of late July 2016, Dante
remained active as a singer, producer, and concert performer. An album,
Favorites,
was
released in 1999, and another CD,
Saturday Night Blast,
was
issued in 2004. The
extended play
California
Weekend
CD was released in 2006. Dante's more recent high-profile
appearance was with the
CBS Orchestra
on the
Late Show with David
Letterman
on July 28, 2010. In mid-2018, Dante joined the
Happy Together tour,
[4]
filling in for
The Turtles
'
Howard Kaylan
who was sidelined due to health issues.