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The Young Rascals are hard edge, there are no softening effects in their music. Frenetic, fast and driving, they have the kind of sound that is stripped naked. They are pop … blown up, bold, brilliant and tough. They are bang-bang and drop dead. They are super-everything. They don’t mess around; they play for keeps. In their own scene, they are just right and from the guts, which means that there is a whole lot of private personality in their playing. They have a restlessness about music. “We haven’t reached it yet” sort of attitude about things. There is never one whole, completed, set arrangement to a song. Every night is discovery night. They go at a song the way a sailor on leave goes after a town … running, jumping, standing … the Age of Anxiety in four parts. They are an eminently visual group without doing anything hokey. One is not embarrassed watching them. No adolescent humor. They don’t like to do TV shows were they have to lip-synch the words … it’s not honest. Only when they have to lip-synch do they resort to some kind of natural kidding just to keep the show in their own hands. The most typical thing about them, and perhaps the only predictable thing, is that they finish off each evening with one song which has become their trademark: “Cute” an improvised musical goofball that relaxes all their tensions and throws out every stray hang-up and left-over emotion that they have accumulated during the night. It is, in effect, the link between rock and roll and jazz … a link which is getting stronger. The song may well run over fifteen minutes and is guaranteed to settle all scores. Rightly enough, on record, they have the same effect as they do in a club. They do not like being identifiable, but there’s something which is identifiable … the way a Gershwin song is. There is always a tell tale signature somewhere in the work. They are, as one has said, particularly New York. What Gershwin tried to do in the twenties, they try in the sixties. They are all the things that are the city. The crowds, the swinging, the smoke, the noise, the sweat, the beautiful people out for kicks, the waiting, screaming teen-agers, the pushy doormen, the romantic, glamorous sink of the city on the make. They are not tired businessmen thinking young, impossible thoughts, nor dolled up matrons in too-tight girdles. They are today, tonight and the morning after; the drive, the chutzpah, the lights, the action, and all the questions when it’s four A.M. and there’s no place else to go, and you wonder what it all

FORMATION OF THE YOUNG RASCALS The Young Rascals came into being in 1965 when Felix Cavaliere decided to form his own group. He had been organist with a group called “Sandu Scott & Her Scotties” who played at the Latin Quarter in New York among other places. Felix and Dino Danelli, the drummer with the same group, set out to recruit two others. The two others were Gene Cornish whom they had met in New York when he was with his own, now disbanded group, and Eddie Brigati who was percussionist with Joey Dee’s band. Their first date was at the Choo-Choo Club in Garfield, New Jersey, February 1965. Their success at the Choo-Choo Club got them the engagement that was the most important of their career: The Barge at Southampton. If there was one place in the summer of 1965 that seemed to be the center of the social universe then it was The Barge. Everything that happened was there. The reports from those returning to the city were of “this fantastic group”. The Young Rascals were in! At this time they met Bill Smith who worked with them on promotional ideas and contributed to the boy’s growing success. After the summer, the boys were booked into Harlow’s in New York. Their four week engagement there turned the usually quiet 79th Street into Times Square. After this, they moved to the then recently opened Phone Booth. They have since toured the

country, appeared on major TV shows and continue selling hit records. EDDIE BRIGATI – Vocal Eddie looks like a Dead End kid … sometimes he acts like one. He is quite a level-headed young man who has the drive and ambition of the British fleet against the Spanish Armada. A teacher would hate to have him in a classroom … but he is what they call “a diamond in the rough” and would get away with murder. During an interview, he can be impossible but then he lights a lady cigarette and you know he really has been kidding around. However, he still needs and occasional rap in the mouth. Eddie is Italian … and that explains everything … the pride, the sensitivity, the orneriness, the big mouth and the music … the appreciation of a fine point, the exact detail, the calculated indiscretion. He likes Claude Rains as an actor … so what can be bad about someone like that? He is devoted to his family and very close. Girls think he’s cute and I suspect they baby him. I don’t doubt that he takes advantage of this but doesn’t really like the idea. FACTS AT A GLANCE INSTRUMENTS: Vocal – percussion BIRTHDATE: October 22, 1945 BIRTHPLACE: Garfield, N.J. HEIGHT: 5’4″ WEIGHT: 120 lbs. HAIR: Brown EYES: Brown FAVORITE COLOR: Red FAVORITE FOOD: Sea Food – Italian Food FAVORITE ENTERTAINER: Claude Rains MISCELLANEOUS LIKES: Plain, intelligent, soft spoken women – parties … orderly, a little wild FELIX CAVALIERE – Organ When Felix Cavaliere was in the high school in Pelham, he let his hair grew long. This had a great annoyance value. What can squares do against that? He is the son of a dentist and was slated to be a doctor. Two years stay that Syracuse University proved that he didn’t really want to be a doctor. It is just as well. Now he has something he is dedicated to — a career as a fine musician. Although there is no leader, he is the spokesman for the group which means that he occasionally gets a word in edgeways, if Gene and Eddie have nothing to say. He is the official worrier of the group. Felix usually smokes a pipe which gives
him a thoughtful air … which is no fake because he is an intelligent boy who is a gentleman too. He is very articulate about the aims of the group. It is refreshing to talk with someone of his age who can talk about Aldous Huxley. The name of that author comes into the conversation when Felix tells what he wants to achieve … it’s the “total sound” of the organ in Brave New World which completely saturates the listener in sound. Felix feels that music is sensual so why fight it.

INSTRUMENTS: Organ – piano – guitar – harmonica – drums – Siren – vocal
BIRTHDATE: Nov. 29, 1942
BIRTHPLACE:Pelham, N.Y
. HEIGHT: 5′ 9″
WEIGHT: 130 lbs.
HAIR: Brown
EYES: Brown
FAVORITE COLOR: Green
FAVORITE FOOD: Italian
FAVORITE ENTERTAINER: Sophia Loren

MISCELLANEOUS LIKES: Brains and understanding in a girl – small quiet parties

GENE CORNISH – Guitar
Gene Cornish, who originally came from Canada, is the only non-Italian in the group but he tells everybody that his favorite food is Italian. “It has to be” he says realistically. Actually, his favorite food is Chinese but he knows where his pasta foozoole is coming from. Anyway, Gene is an affable young man. His conversation, which often takes on the aspects of a monologue, veers crazily from the serious to the outrageous and back again with what is usually described as “bewildering speed”. He usually warns people by saying “I was only kidding” but by then one has more or less gotten the point … Gene is a nut!
He now calls Rochester, N. Y. his hometown because his family lives there, but he lives in Manhattan. He originally came to the city with his own group which duly starved and scraped and scrounged to try to make it. The others finally couldn’t take it anymore and went back, but Gene stayed. He lived in the city and subsisted on berries and roots until he met the other Young Rascals. Gene plays the guitar with a group and also raises his voice in song — sometimes he just raises has voice.

INSTRUMENTS: Guitar – bass – harmonica – drums – vocal
BIRTHDATE: May 14, 1944
BIRTHPLACE: Canada
HEIGHT: 5′ 11″
WEIGHT: 170 lbs.
HAIR: Brown
EYES: Blue FAVORITE COLOR: Blue
FAVORITE FOOD: Chinese
FAVORITE ENTERTAINER: Laurel & Hardy
MISCELLANEOUS LIKES: Plain, quiet girls – small parties with a few close friends

DINO DANELLI – Drums

Dino Danelli may well be the best drummer in the whole world. He is certainly one of the greatest. He has been playing professionally since he was fifteen and has sat in with practically every big band in existence. He is a fascinating person to watch onstage. He has assumed a manner which will probably be imitated to death. He is about the coolest looking chap around. He plays completely straight face with only his head turning in a kind of mechanical doll movement which exactly matches his rhythm. His high-arched fiber eyebrows give the effect of “couldn’t care less”. He plays at a fast, lickedly split rate with the sticks twirling around on the upbeat at a clip that seems faster than light. He has a superb sense not only of timing but of showmanship.

In conversation, Dino likes to remain mysterious in usually lets the others who are all eager to talk to so. However, when he does talk, it’s usually about music.

INSTRUMENTS: Drums
BIRTHDATE: July 23, 1944
BIRTHPLACE: Jersey City, N. J.
HEIGHT: 5′ 9″
WEIGHT: 145 lbs.
HAIR: Brown
EYES: Green
FAVORITE COLOR: Black
FAVORITE FOOD: Steak
FAVORITE ENTERTAINER: All movie stars
MISCELLANEOUS LIKES: Personality in a girl

RECORDINGS FOR ATLANTIC RECORDS
SINGLES: I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore b/w Mustang Sally — Good Lovin’ b/w Slow Down

Albums: The Young Rascals

TELEVISION APPEARANCES

Ed Sullivan Show
Hullabaloo – ( 3 times )
Lloyd Thaxton Show
Where the Action Is
Shebang