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Ernie Maresca (songwriter) : I had sung with a group called The Montereys. I knew some people down at Seville Records, like Eddie Kassner , who was a really nice man, and I took them down there. They liked us, and they changed our name to The Desires and released some things. Around that time, I decided to follow the main path of writing, so I left the group but they still used my songs.
There was a record shop where so many people used to meet - Cousins, on Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was run by Lou Cicchetti, who had his own label. The Desires, who were now called The Regents, had cut a song called Barbara Ann as a tack-on song at the end of a ballad session. Maybe it cost them $10-$15 to cut it! No-one liked it! This was maybe in 1958, and eventually a year or two later, Lou got to hear it and said he would release it. The group had broken up, and the guys were singing elsewhere in other groups, but they had to reform to cut a flip. It went to No.1 in New York on Cousins, and got picked up by Gee (a George Goldner label) for national distribution.
Anyway the follow-up to that big hit was Runaround, which was one of my songs. (N.B. a different song than Runaround Sue, also by Maresca).
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There was a record shop where so many people used to meet - Cousins, on Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was run by Lou Cicchetti, who had his own label. The Desires, who were now called The Regents, had cut a song called Barbara Ann as a tack-on song at the end of a ballad session. Maybe it cost them $10-$15 to cut it! No-one liked it! This was maybe in 1958, and eventually a year or two later, Lou got to hear it and said he would release it. The group had broken up, and the guys were singing elsewhere in other groups, but they had to reform to cut a flip. It went to No.1 in New York on Cousins, and got picked up by Gee (a George Goldner label) for national distribution.
Anyway the follow-up to that big hit was Runaround, which was one of my songs. (N.B. a different song than Runaround Sue, also by Maresca).
(Source : not known)