[78-L] Hugo and Luigi Research

[David Lennick]

Tab may not have been a singer, but he had hit records.

dl

fnarf at comcast.net wrote:
> Are you sure they're all pop singers and not just pop celebrities? Tab Hunter was better known as an actor than a singer, and by far the best-known "Monty" of the time was Montgomery Clift (who I'm guessing made no discs).
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> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> agp wrote:
>> I'm trying to wrap up some research on Hugo Peretti and Luigi 
>> Creatore - producers/ songwriters/ etc.
>>
>> On one of their disks, the (not well named) Rockabilly Party on 
>> Roulette, from 1957, they name check a bunch of pop singers of the 
>> day -- like Perry Como and mister swivel hips hisself (thankyouverymush).
>>
>> Anyway -- I've picked them all out but two. The lines are:
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>> ...We'll bring Monty...
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>> ...Tab and Tommy and whoever I missed...
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>> So -- who might Monty and Tommy be -- I know that Tab would be Tab 
>> Hunter. Bear in mind that this is 1957.
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>> Oh - -and yes -- it was on 78 -- in South Africa and the UK
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>> T
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> Could be Tommy Sands. The only Monty I can think of from this period is Monty 
> Kelly, who was at Essex (and the other related Philly labels from that family).
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