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The Crew-Cuts
Origin Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre(s) Traditional Pop
Years active 1952-1964
Label(s) Mercury, RCA Victor Camay
Website [1]
Former members
Rudi Maugeri, John Perkins, Ray Perkins, Pat Barrett

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They all had been members of the St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto, which also spawned another famous quartet, The Four Lads. Events 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 475 - The Roman General Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his Capital Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For the town in Argentina, see 28 de Noviembre. Events Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse Italy. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. St Michael’s Choir School is an all-boys' semi-private school located in downtown Toronto, Canada that embodies a unique learning environment for its students Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario The Four Lads were a Canadian singing group They grew up together in Toronto Ontario, and were members of St Maugeri, John Perkins, and two others (Bernard Toorish and Connie Codarini) who later were among the Four Lads first formed a group called The Jordonaires (not to be confused with a similarly named group, The Jordanaires, that was known for singing Elvis Presley's hits) and also The Otnorots ("Toronto" spelled backwards being "Otnorot"), but they split from the group to finish high school. The Jordanaires are an American singing group formed in 1948 in Springfield Missouri. When the Four Lads returned to Toronto for a homecoming concert, John Perkins and Maugeri ran into each other and decided that they could themselves have a musical future. They joined with Barrett and Ray Perkins in March 1952. The group was originally called The Four Tones (not to be confused with The Four Tunes, a group on the bordereline between pop music and rhythm and blues). The Four Tunes (also referred to as The 4 Tunes) were a leading black pop Vocal quartet during the 1950s

A Toronto disk jockey, Barry Nesbitt, put them on his weekly teen show, whose audience gave the group a new name, The Canadaires. All four of the members were at the time working at jobs with the Ontario government, but quit their jobs to sing full-time. Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec They worked clubs in the Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, NY area, but saved up their money and drove to New York City, so they could appear on Arthur Godfrey's television and radio program, Talent Scouts, where they came in second to a comedian. Niagara Falls is a Canadian City of 82184 residents Geography and Climate Niagara Falls Ontario Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec The City of New York Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey ( August 31 1903 &ndash March 16 1983) was an American Radio and Television broadcaster Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (also known as Talent Scouts) was a radio and Television Variety show which ran on CBS from While they did get a record with Thrillwwood Records and recorded a song titled "Chip, Chip Sing A Song Little Sparrow", this led to no improvement in their fortune, however, and they continued playing minor night clubs.

In March 1953, they returned to Toronto and appeared as an opening act for Gisele MacKenzie at the Casino Theatre. Gisèle MacKenzie ( January 10 1927 - September 5 2003) was a Canadian Singer, most famous for her performances on the popular She was impressed with them and commented favorably to her record label, but could not remember the group's name!

They were playing in a Sudbury, Ontario, night club in a sub-zero Canadian winter when they received notice that they had been invited to appear as a guest on a Cleveland television program. Greater Sudbury (2006 Census population 157857 is a city in Northern Ontario, Canada. Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state They drove 600 miles at -40° temperatures to appear on the Gene Carroll show, where they remained for three appearances and also, while in Clevelend, met local disk jockey Bill Randle. Bill Randle ( March 14, 1923 - July 9, 2004) was an American Disc On his show, on Cleveland AM radio station WERE, he coined the name that would from that point on belong to the group. WERE is an AM radio station licensed to Cleveland Heights Ohio and operating on 1490 kHz. In addition, Randle arranged for them to audition with Mercury Records, who liked them enough to sign the quartet to a contract. Mercury Records is a Record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the US and are both subsidiaries of

The name Crew Cuts refers to their short hair as opposed to long hair, which at the time implied classical music. It was a decade later that long hair came to be associated with the counter-culture movement. Counterculture (also " counter-culture " is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a Cultural group, or

Although their first hit, "Crazy 'Bout You, Baby," was written by Maugeri and Barrett themselves, they quickly became specialists in cover recordings of originally-R&B songs. In Popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition ( Performance or Recording) of a previously recorded commercially released Their first cover, "Sh-Boom" (of which the R&B original was recorded by The Chords) hit #1 on the charts in 1954. The Chords was a 1950s American Doo wop group whose lone hit was " Sh-Boom " A number of other hits followed including "Earth Angel" which rose to the number 2 spot on the charts and had great success in England and in Australia.

Interestingly, many of the non-cover songs of theirs that became hits in Canada were unknown in the United States of America, while it was only their covers that had great success in the United States. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

The group moved from Mercury to RCA Records in 1958 and eventually broke up in 1964, but they all moved to the U. RCA Records (originally The Victor Talking Machine Company, then RCA Victor is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. S. and reunited in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1977. Tennessee ( is a state located in the Southern United States. In the 1990s they were inducted into the Juno Hall of Fame. The Canadian Music Hall of Fame honors Canadian musicians for their lifetime achievements in Music. In recent years, the three remaining members have appeared on a PBS special filmed in Atlantic City's Trump's Taj Mahal. The program. "Magic Moments: The Best of '50s Pop" continues to air as part of the fund raising efforts for the Public Broadcasting System.

A remix of their song "Life Could Be a Dream, Sweetheart" was featured in the credits of the video game Destroy All Humans!. Destroy All Humans! is a video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ.

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