The featured band was Bocky and the Visions. Buddy Maver, a former member, has a nice webpage devoted to his former group that features great photos and about eight tunes. Maver writes, "Bocky and the Visions were the first Cleveland group to make records that got played on the radio. They started in Cleveland’s Little Italy in the late 50s. They were a doo-wop singing group with four singers … kind of like Dion and the Belmonts or the Four Seasons. The group consisted of lead singer, Bocky DiPasquale AKA “Bocky Boo” and background singers Sonny Peters, Jimmy Randazzo, and Arnie Immerman. They made some great records that came out on national labels like Big Top, Decca and Phillips initially recording in New York and later at Cleveland Recording."
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| Courtesy BuckeyeBeat.com |
The George May ad notes that the group's latest hit recording was "Listen to the Beat of My Heart."
The years 1964 and 1965 were big ones for Bocky and the Visions. They performed at The Note, the teenage nightclub in Ruggles Beach, back in October 1964.
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| Oct. 2, 1964 ad |
The group had performed at Admiral King High School in February 1965 for a Booster Club fundraiser.
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| March 20, 1965 TV listing |
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The Cleveland Scene website recounts the tragic, unsolved murder of Robert J. "Bocky" DiPasquale in 1988.
The link to the SCENE website doesn't exist, so it says.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this, Dan - it takes me back to high school dances with music by Bocky and the crew. He was not exactly my taste ("Ooh Poo Pah Doo" and the like), but they were good at what they did. I did not realize they started off as a doo-wop group. Nor did I know about Bocky's death. (FYI - that Scene link does not seem to work.)
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