Word: decastro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charms. Chuckles. Cheers or Nuggets, he got candy. Today he gets a disk, by one of the score of vocal groups whose recordings are crowding the bestseller lists. Not all the groups go by such fancy names. There are simple families: the Ames Brothers, the McGuire, De Marco. DeCastro and Fontane Sisters, and groups that wish to establish the fact, before any doubts arise, that they are quartets: the Four Aces, Four Lads, Four Knights, Four Tunes, Four Freshmen...
...Chordettes, beginning with chime effects ("bum, bum, bum, bum") and paced by the clip-clop sounds of Archie Bleyer slapping his knees. Sample Mr. Sandman lyric: "Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci, and lots of wavy hair like Liberace." No. 4 bestseller: Teach Me Tonight (Abbott), with the DeCastro Sisters in a twangy, eagerly enunciated request for seduction. The melody is in the contralto, while the other girls warble country-alto above. No. 11 but climbing fast: The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane (Victor), in which the Ames Brothers croon their kind of bumdadabum, bumbum, bum in a shuffle...