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Post by Clipper on May 28, 2011 11:43:49 GMT -5
Gosh Jon. This thread is great. I was surprised to see the picture of Dave Malachino and his band. I dated his sister Mary Jo for a short time in the 70's, and followed his band while we were dating for that short period of time. Good guy and great musician also. Last time I listened to them play was at the place owned by a guy named Mosca, on Martin St in Rome. I can't remember the name of the place, but many bands played there, and I think Doug Lavigne's group was one of them.
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Post by chris on May 28, 2011 12:29:02 GMT -5
My ex took me to the BlueNote in Manhattan many moons ago. (we went there after seeing Guess who's coming to Dinner....so as I said many moons ago) That was a very popular Jazz club...not sure if it is still around.
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Post by jon hynes on May 28, 2011 13:18:13 GMT -5
Jimmy Wormworth Sr. was the drum instructor in many of the Drum Corps in the '60s along with Dick Robilotto leader in the horn line. Outstanding musicians.
Jimmy Wormworth Jr. played drums on the Conan O'Brien Show when Max Weinberg was on the road with Bruce Springsteen. Jimmy plays the drums barefoot.
Tracy Wormworth Jimmy's sister played bass guitar on The Rosie O'Donnell Show and the B-52s. She was best friends with my cousin and would visit with her back when I still lived with my parents and I would be practicing my bass guitar.
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Post by jon hynes on May 28, 2011 13:29:36 GMT -5
Gosh Jon. This thread is great. I was surprised to see the picture of Dave Malachino and his band. I dated his sister Mary Jo for a short time in the 70's, and followed his band while we were dating for that short period of time. Good guy and great musician also. Last time I listened to them play was at the place owned by a guy named Mosca, on Martin St in Rome. I can't remember the name of the place, but many bands played there, and I think Doug Lavigne's group was one of them. Was it the Ritz Club Martin you're thinking of ? Wayne Bohling the drummer and I played together in the Chessmen after the accident and later with Doug. He died at the age of 48 in 1988. A really great guy and always had a smile. |
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Post by Clipper on May 28, 2011 13:41:45 GMT -5
Could have been the club martin Jon. It was way out next to the present day ramp that puts you on Rt 365 Westbound in Stanwix, not down near Mill St where the electric scene was. It's a red brick building, if it is still there.
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Post by jplatt on May 29, 2011 1:00:51 GMT -5
Clipper that is the club Martin for sure did a night there with the Dixie Cups there hit was( going to the chapel to get married)
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Post by Clipper on May 29, 2011 9:41:50 GMT -5
Yep. That was probably one of the largest venues in it's day for country music. The place was packed every night that they had live music and they booked the best of the areas bands all the time.
Another place we used to go listen to Doug Lavingne's band was a bar way out on Turin Road, on the left hand side. It was a white building almost to Stokes.
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Post by dgriffin on Jul 28, 2011 20:37:56 GMT -5
Here's a familiar name. I think this guy, now 83 years old, used to perform at DiCastro's at The Beach. Nice quality video, too, except for the imbecilic camera work. Here's Jimmy Cavallo and the House Rockers, Good Rockin' Tonight.
Here they are back in the day.
Many more Cavallo videos: Search "Jimmy Cavallo" on YouTube.
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Post by dgriffin on Jul 28, 2011 21:33:34 GMT -5
Here is his wiki entry: Jimmy Cavallo (b. March 14 1927 in Syracuse, New York) is an American musician best known for performing with his band in the 1956 movie, Rock, Rock, Rock, by pioneering music DJ Alan Freed. Jimmy and the Houserockers were the first all-white band to play at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, where they celebrated the movie's release.[1] When Cavallo (often misspelled Cavello) was in high school in Syracuse in the early 1940s, he played in a swing band, playing harmony on alto sax. He knew even then that playing the harmony was not for him, and he wanted to do the melody line, sing and lead a band. Cavallo started buying Louis Jordan records and learning those songs, and other jump blues records, and soon switched to tenor sax because that was the lead horn in jump blues. When Cavallo was around 16, he formed his own band, but the only work they got was playing local Italian weddings (and the occasional Polish, Jewish, or Irish wedding). (sounds familiar  )MORE AT: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Cavallo |
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Post by kit on Jul 29, 2011 9:59:22 GMT -5
Dave,
Was Jimmy Cavallo by any chance related to Tommy Cavallo who owned "Cavallo's" in New Hartford back in the day? I remember drinking there when I was 16 and chatting with Tommy and his chief bartender Rock (Rocco).
Interesting story. One day my buddy and I were sitting at the bar having a beer and a cute high school friend of ours came in and sat down next to us. Rock says, "What can I get you?" She says, "How about a Sloe Gin Fizz?" Rock says, "A Slow Gin Fizz??? Why don't you just get a Cherry Coke?" She thought for a moment and said, "Because I don't like Cherry Coke."
Ahhh! The good old days. Tommy Jr. owns the bar now and they continue to do a great business.
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Post by dgriffin on Aug 10, 2011 23:03:54 GMT -5
Kit, sorry I missed your post. No, I don't think Tom and Jimmy were related, but I don't know for sure. Jimmy the musician was evidently from Syracuse. Tom had a brother (he might have also been named Jimmy, but I don't remember ... my Mom told me she dated him in the 1930's before she met my father) who ran a restaurant on the Northwest corner of South and Mohawk. I don't know who owned it when I would see it in the fifties or sixties, but then I think it was called Lindsey's. I also drank in Cavallo's in NH before I was 18. We'd go there on Friday nights. And I remember being in there drinking beer the night I turned 18 in November of 1961. |
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Post by jon hynes on Oct 26, 2011 19:15:54 GMT -5
I thought I'd copy this here from the Restaurants Thread. "I played in some bands with Marvin when I was a "kid". I also played at Lou's and have some stories about that place! Marvin was mentioned in a piece in the Jay Lively College Heights Herald some years ago and he appeared to have fallen on some hard times. Marv and I played together when the Beetles first came out and figured out chords to their songs. We didn't play very many gigs but the name of the group was Bogan and the Gworps. I think we played at Lou's before that with Steve Czarnocki (Conners). I've been trying to figure who you are and think I've figured that you used to live on West Street in Whitesboro. I'm pretty sure we played together at Lou's and the Corner Tavern in Little Falls. A very long time ago. I found the article about Marv and it had me in tears. Looks like he's made a come back. I remember him playing Chet Atkins style better than Chet. I somehow ran into him in New York City where he was with a couple of guys that did the Rightous Brothers numbers in French. It was fantastic! |
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Post by richmc on Nov 3, 2011 11:01:09 GMT -5
West Street is correcct. I remember the cops busting in Lou's while were playing. They asked for IDs and all I had was my SS card because I was 15 or so. They just shook their heads and left me alone drinking my Singapore Sling. Then they pulled some guy out of the men's room. I was trying to remember the place in Little Falls...Yup - it was Corner Tavern.
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Post by sonnydee on Nov 3, 2011 11:19:01 GMT -5
correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't there a place off broad street, down by the area of tilden, and nichols, or milgate st... I remember it was a pretty rough crowd, and there was saw dust on the floors, I sang a lot of rock and roll, and some ballads, but the crowd was so tough, all they wanted was rock and roll, and country... I think it was called "Dusty's", or "Dusty's Tavern", not sure, but was hell of a crowd, mostly pimps, prostitutes, bikers, and drunks from off the street...
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Post by Clipper on Nov 3, 2011 13:19:44 GMT -5
Other than not caring to drink with pimps and prostitutes, that place sounds like my kind of bar, hahaha. I was trying to remember the place you describe and I can't picture it. There was a place just east of Pelletieri Joes that was on a corner just south of Broad St GE where the professional wrestlers used to hang out after the matches at the Auditorium. I don't remember if they had live music or not. Could that be the place? That was a rough joint to drink in. Bikers, rough necks, and drunks like myself. Glad that those days of drunken foolishness are in my far distant past, haha.
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