Lenny coco biography
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- The original Brooklyn quintet's lead singer Lenny Cocco (leader and originator of the group), was into standards at an early age since his.
- The document summarizes the life and career of Lenny Cocco, a doo-wop singer who performed with the group The Chimes.
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Singer Lenny Cocco, who in a nearly 60-year career became a doo-wop mainstay throughout the metropolitan area, died May 8 at his home in Holbrook, of undisclosed causes. He was 78.
"He was a small man in stature but a man with a very big heart," said his son, Leonard Cocco Jr., a retired New York City police officer. "Whenever anybody called him for any charitable event, he would give of his own free time and will. Years ago when we had the Oklahoma City bombing, he had his own music production company back then, and did a fundraiser show and went to Oklahoma and presented Gov. Keating with a check."
Born in Brooklyn, Leonard Cocco Sr. formed the group The Capris in 1957, renaming the quintet The Chimes after learning of a Rockaway Beach band with the former name. In 1961, The Chimes reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the Tommy Dorsey hit "Once in a While," followed that year with the standard "I'm in the Mood for Love," which peaked at No. 38. The group performed in venues including The Howard in Washington, D.C., the
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A Brooklyn street corner group formed in 1959, they originally called themselves the Capris until they found out that friends of theirs from Rockaway Beach in Long Island were already using that name. So Lenny Cocco and company renamed themselves The Chimes. The original Brooklyn quintet's lead singer Lenny Cocco (leader and originator of the group), was into standards at an early age since his father was a professional accordion player. Lenny's father, Leonard, thought Tommy Dorsey's 1937 number one hit "Once In Awhile" would work well in a vocal quintet arrangement, so the group began practicing in a local pool hall that had a piano.
In 1960 the group went into the studio and recorded a demo of "Once In Awhile", attracting the interest of the engineer. While The Chimes were in the studio the engineer called a friend at Tag Records and within an hour Andy Leonetti was there listening to the group's first recording.
By the fall of 1960 "Once In Awhile", was hitting the Billboards’ national charts. It finished one spot shy of th
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