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Tommy James and the Shondells

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44: 471:, where he recruited a quintet that was playing there called the Raconteurs – Joe Kessler (guitar), Ron Rosman (keyboards), George Magura (saxophone), Mike Vale (bass) and Vincent Pietropaoli (drums) – as the new Shondells. "I had no group, and I had to put one together really fast," recalled James. "I was in a Greensburg, PA club one night, and I walked up to a group that was playing that I thought was pretty good and asked them if they wanted to be the Shondells. They said yes, and off we went." 633: 377: 655:, in March 1970, an exhausted James collapsed after coming off stage from a reaction to drugs and was pronounced dead. He was not dead, however, and decided to move to the country to rest and recuperate, and left the band. His four bandmates carried on for a short while under the name Hog Heaven, recording two albums (one "self-titled" on Roulette Records in March 1971 and the second recorded in 1971, but unreleased until 2008), and landing one Hot 100 hit, " 431:). As James could often be found playing at Niles High School events, his popularity locally continued to grow. James' version of "Hanky Panky" sold respectably in Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, but Snap Records, the label under which "Hanky Panky" was originally released, had no national distribution. The band toured the eastern Midwest, but no other market took to the song. The single failed to 466:
In April 1966 James went by himself to make promotional appearances in Pittsburgh in nightclubs and on local television. Bob Mack made his dance club bands available to James for promotional appearances, but nothing seemed to fit until a guitarist from one of the bands took James to the Thunderbird
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James first learned of all this activity in April 1966 after getting a telephone call from Pittsburgh disc jockey "Mad Mike" Metro(vich) asking him to come and perform the song. James attempted to contact other members of the Shondells, but they had all moved away, joined the service or gotten
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dance promoter Bob Mack had unearthed the forgotten single "Hanky Panky", playing it at various dance parties, and radio stations there touted it as an "exclusive". Listener response encouraged regular play and demand soared. Bootleggers responded by printing 80,000 black market copies of the
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and Associates for management. In 1967 Kessler and Pietropaoli were forced to leave after a dispute when planned monies were not remitted to them by Roulette, a label closely associated with organized crime, and whose head,
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In 2015 Gray, Vale, and Rosman decided to reunite and form their new group, The Crystal Blue Band. They recruited their longtime friend and drummer Mike Wilps to replace the late Peter Lucia. That group disbanded in 2022.
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In the mid-1980s, Tommy James began touring in oldies packages with other acts from the 1960s sometimes billed as Tommy James & the Shondells, although he is the group's only original member. A
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After first considering taking a job outside of music, James decided to form a new band, the Koachmen, with Shondells guitarist Larry Coverdale and members of a rival group called the Spinners (not
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Crimson & Clover, the highest-charting album by Tommy James & the Shondells (it made the Top Ten), marked the arrival of the group's psychedelic style
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In 2009 James and the surviving Shondells, Gray, Vale and Rosman, reunited to record music for a soundtrack of a proposed film based on James' autobiography,
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is generally traced to the success of the 1968 Fruitgum Company hit "Simon Says". Tommy rejects the "bubblegum" label for his music. In early 1967 songwriter
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married and left the music business altogether. There remains disagreement over the role of Metrovich in the recording. In his book,
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In March 2011 the Tommy James song "I'm Alive" (co-written with Peter Lucia) became a top 20 hit in the Netherlands for UK singer
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At first, Tommy James and "his" Shondells played straightforward rock and roll, but they soon became associated with the budding
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On January 6, 1987, original drummer Peter P. Lucia Jr. died of a heart attack while playing golf at the age of 39.
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Tommy James and the Shondells in 1967. Left to right: Ron Rosman, Peter Lucia, Tommy James, Mike Vale and Eddie Gray
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In 2008 Tommy James and The Shondells were inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.
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In a 1970 side project, James wrote and produced the No. 7 hit single "Tighter, Tighter" for the group
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In 1964 James renamed the band the Shondells because the name "sounded good" and in honor of nearby
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nationally and the Shondells disbanded in 1965 after its members graduated from high school.
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With a touring group to promote the single, James went to New York City, where he sold the
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The 2000s edition of Tommy James and the Shondells plays a 2010 free outdoor concert in
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During the 1980s, the group's songbook produced major hits for three other artists:
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in Niles, Michigan, the group released its first single, "Long Pony Tail", in 1962.
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In 2012 "Crystal Blue Persuasion" was used in the eighth episode of Season 5 of
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Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and the Shondells
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ork visible from James's apartment balcony in New York. He followed it with "
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Patricia Romanowski; Holly George-Warren; John Pareles (November 8, 2001).
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In 2008 "I'm Alive" was covered by Tom Jones and released on his
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Something Special! The Best of Tommy James and The Shondells
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album marked the start of the band's psychedelic style.
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Tommy James & the Shondells
Tommy James & the Shondells on their 2010 tour
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Rock
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Greg Smith
Mike DiMeo
Eddie Gray
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Don Ciccone
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singles
Hanky Panky
Crimson and Clover
top 40
I Think We're Alone Now
Mirage
Mony Mony
Sweet Cherry Wine
Crystal Blue Persuasion

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