DELL VICKINGS

Jitterbug

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Music

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• DELL
• VICKING
• DOO-WOP
• JITTERBURG

[supermanchu]

Ive always loved the Del-Vikings and love the fact that they are a mixed group and as a proud PUERTO RICAN, I am also proud of the fact that TEENAGERS, my fave group had not 1 but 2 Puerto Ricans in their group The Eternals were all Puerto Rican, another mixed group was Bobby Rivera and the Hemlocks i can go on.... we made good music (still do) we helped create Rock and Roll so for all the Anti Puerto Rican comments on this page GET A LIFE rock n roll is an ethnic music form DONT FORGET THAT

[thebigfist]

There were quite a few mixed groiups, actually. Johnny Maestro and the Crests were Italian,African-American and Puerto Rican. The Jaguars were Mexican-American, African American and Italian.The Fascinators were Italian and African American,Rob-roys were Jewish and African-American. Marcels were German and African-American.Not bad for the 1950`s eh? When the cultures mix, then the races mix with little difficulty.Why do we complicate these things 50 years later???????

[Cch092775]

Since we are talking about mixed race groups.....I had the pleasure of seeing Frankie Lymon's Teenagers recently at NJPAC with original TEENAGER Ramon Santiago. They are STILL fantastic.

[foopedlo]

Until the late sixties there practically were no civil rights for anybody, except for the suzerainty of property owning white men. the '60s changed much of that: Jim Crow laws were dismantled and equal opportunity was guaranteed by enforceable laws for both men and women and racial minorities. Other minorities were encouraged and emboldened by these startling gains and began their own movements for equal rights. The government's spying apparatus was discredited and dismantled..."

[LaChAoSTB]

how did this go from music to racial shit!



[MrRJDB1969]

The Great Del-Vikings !!

[blackspace007]

I hate how things turn into RACE all the time. I love the fact that they are a mixed group too. But I knew that once i scrolled down and read some nice comments first there be some other posts that start to sound racist, or racially charged. It's so exhausting. I love music, and black and whites and all the other races have contributed and made it awesome. Music is my life

[Doowopdan]

Some trivia.... The original Mercury recording of this in mid-late 1957 featured (white) lead Gus Backus, who also sang lead on the flip side, "Cool Shake." Gus was in the group for less than a year, but appears in most of the famous photographs. By the time of this 1958 performance, he had been transferred by the Air Force to Germany, so Norman Wright (lead on Come Go with Me) stepped in. There voices were similar anyway.

[supermanchu]

Another group was Earl Lewis and The Channels Mr. Lewis is also Hispanic hes from Panama and we have held a few conversations in SPANISH , TheTeenchords 3 African Americans, a White guy, AND a Domincan Rossiglio Rocca lmao Harold Torres The Crests my Puerto Rican pride is swelling up lmao ooo ooo oooo Dino & The Diplomats We cant be stopped people hahahahaahahaha

[supermanchu]

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