Bongo Stomp - Little Joey & Flips

Down In The Jungle Where No One Goes. Great stuff from Philly.

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Music

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• Doo
• Wop

[body0guard]

I WAS THE ORIGINAL LEAD JIMMY DILKS, WE WERE THE ELADS, ME, JEFF, JOHNNY, AND FREDDIE...JOEY CAME ALONG WHEN WE GOT THESE MANAGER WHO TOOK CREDIT FOR THE B-SIDES WHEN JOEY WROTE THEM, I LEFT THE GROUP AND WENT WITH TONY AND THE RAINDROPS...AS FAR AS I KNOW JIMMY IS THE ONLY ONE DECEASED, JEFF HAS A ROD AND GUN SHOP LANDSOWN AVE, AND JOHNNY SMITH AND FREDDIE GARACE ARE STILL AROUND, JOEY PASSED AWAY ALSO I BELIEVE OF DIABETES COMPLICATIONS....SO JOEY AND JIMMY ARE DECEASED.....DOO WOP FOREVER

[lytation]

hey Jmmy, i hope you remember singing with us on I know Somewhere around 63. Our firs trip to Sound Plus in the Northeast. I still talk with Bob Bintliff and Frank Torpey. Plase send me some of your music so i can play it on the doo wop cafe. I'm on every tursday from 6-8 pm and sunday mornings from 8-10. Jack Strong jpmusic@rcn.com

[DooWopRob]

Did this group do a song called MY HOTROD?

[lytation]

Yes they did. It remained unreleased till it was pressed on Monogram records out of phila. Hot Rod is the title. Thanks, Jack

[jaclyn1019]

That's my dad that sang in this group!

[lytation]

Hi jaclyn, i'm pretty sure only one memeber is still alive. Jeff. I hope he is your dad. One of the other members Jimmy went to the same high school as me i believe. bonnner. thanks for the comments. Jack

[TheBump29]

JIMMY MEAGHER UPPER DARBY PA.WAS FRIENDS WITH MY UNCLE BOB.HE WAS A FUN DUDE AND ALWAYS HAD A TOOTHPICK

[Sykaplan1]

Wow!!--It'll be fifty years in April since I took the boys into Sound Plus studio in Philly to cut the song--Seems just like yesterday--What wonderfully memories.---Sy Kaplan

[davidforprez]

Wow theres history right here on this comment thread, some great singers

[dewittseattle]

The song was played on KJR in Seattle,Washington in 1962 and was a coast to coast hit and killer of a tune! Anyone who heard this song will never forget it. Took me 25 years to finally get my own copy and of such things the magic of rock and roll are made!

[Dittoenvy]

@body0guard Jeff Leonard's Bait Shop now has a recording studio in the basement. I think that his store used to be the "D and R" tavern when I was a kid on Harwood Avenue. Jeff stops into "Tip O'Leary's" some nights.

[jes92245]

@TheEttingoff Ants did not play on Bongo Stomp. Later, he was witu the Flips when the were the house band on Jerry Blavit's T. V. show

[TheEttingoff]

Did a guitar player named Tony"Ants " Dicarolus play on this or was he the Tony in the nexst group. I know Tony went on to play with Frankie Vallee.

[dhqman]

@body0guard Sy Kaplan lives in Myrtle Beach SC these days.

[body0guard]

HEA GUYS, JACK STRONG, JOHN SMITH, NEED YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS THIS IS JIM DILKS MY E-MAIL dilks-james@comcast.net LOVED TO HEAR FROM YOU MAN, ITS BEEN 50 YRS HOLY SHIT...I DON'T BELIEVE IT, SINGING AT PENNYS LOT, TERMINAL, ST ALICE DANCE...SAND IN THE AIR FORCE BEFORE VIET NAM, AT KEESLER MS, ME AND 3 BLACK GUYS, ONE WAS COUSIN OF BASSITT FROM SHEP AND THE LIMLITES, E-MAIL ME AND WE CAN TALK I WORK P/T WITH FBI AND ENTERPRISE..E-MAIL ME SO WE CAN TALK JIM DILKS

[jes92245]

@body0guard Mr. Dilks, it's been along time! Catching the echos in Gimbles Parkie, or the stores along 69th St., and of course singing in the terminal Friday nights as everyone was going and returning to all the local dances during that era. Great times and you were a great lead and didn't we have some nice harmony!  john smith