Born September 18, 1940· Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Emerging from a Philadelphia Italian-American household, he began his public career as a teenage trumpeter on a well-known comedy program, later releasing two trumpet-featured singles on RCA Victor’s X label and performing with Bobby Rydell’s group. Between 1958 and 1962 he placed thirty-one songs on the U.S. Billboard charts, achieving five-week dominance with “Venus” and delivering the first num…
