In the spring of 1950 they began performing popular standards and spiritual tunes at Le Ruban Bleu, a New York nightclub run by musician and showbiz personality Julius Monk. An impromptu audition raised the interest of Golden Gate bass singer Orlandus Wilson, who recommended them to his group's manager, Michael Stewart, headquartered in New York City. They met The Golden Gate Quartet backstage following an appearance in Toronto (founded in 1934, the black, Virginia-based gospel group had sold millions of records, appeared in major motion pictures and performed at the White House). For a short time they were The Otnorots (Toronto backwards, sort of) and then The Four Dukes. Michael's during the same years, first called themselves The Jordanaires and performed spiritual music in the Toronto area the existence of a Jordanaires group in Missouri (who later backed Elvis Presley on a majority of his recordings) necessitated a change.
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At some point, Rudi and John left and formed The Crew-Cuts with Pat Barrett and John's brother, Ray Perkins, going on to enjoy several mid-'50s hits including the chart-topping "Sh-Boom." By that time the other two had found replacements and begun their own successful series of hit records as The Four Lads.Ĭodarini and Toorish, along with Frank Busseri and Jimmy Arnold, all of them close in age and students at St. Michael's, Corrado "Connie" Codarini and Bernie Toorish started a quartet with schoolmates Rudi Maugeri and John Perkins. Several Toronto-born teenagers had gone through this process and been accepted to the school in 1947 and '48 they eventually became members of two of the most successful pop music vocal groups of the 1950s. Michael's Cathedral is the honor every student strives for. Auditions are held and for each boy accepted the training is rigorous performing as part of the boys' choir at St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto, Ontario has traditionally limited the number of enrollees it admits each year to a few dozen.
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