Nolan promises good interviews with band members, how they came together, why the band fell apart. I started working on this three years ago and completed it in five months.” “I went to Woodstock in 1969 and made a film, as well as one on Phil. “I’m a serious amateur filmmaker,” Nolan said. Their careers varied after their musical high: one of them became a New York City fireman one aced it as a top computer consultant another was a respiratory therapist and now owns a string of barber shops. “Their decision to have a 50th anniversary concert was what brought this up, and a lot of this story came out as they prepared,” Nolan explained. Two came in from the West Coast Conocenti’s son helped with camerawork. Out of the six originals, four were able to become involved in the reunion concert, Nolan said. They were signed in 1968 and by late summer of 1969, they had broken up.” “ ‘Sunny Days,’ it was good, and sounded good, but it didn’t break through.
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“They had a lot of help on the album, people working with John Lennon on horns and three songs written by professional songwriters,” Nolan said.
It did well, but never became a chart topper.
“Sunny Days,” a single written by Kenny Lagona, was on the album and got airplay on 77 WABC and WBLI. “During their summer vacation, they were in New York City in a recording studio making an album,” Nolan said of the Tuneful band. The young men’s “Island” album featured fuzz guitars, oboes, and was reminiscent of The Beach Boys’ harmonies. Jay and the Americans had several blockbuster hits in the 1960s when the Beatles came on the scene and their music popularity waned, they went into producing, with Yaguda steering the way. (Think Carole King and her story in “Beautiful.”) Some of the most popular American music was written here. Sam Yaguda, a Jay and the Americans singer, drove out to Bay Shore to listen to the young men, was impressed, and introduced them to Capitol Records and the Brill Building, which housed music industry offices and studios. Traub liked what he heard and put them in touch. Sam Traub, the owner, and his wife happened to be best friends with the parents of a member of Jay and the Americans.”
Traub was hosting an anniversary party for himself and his wife and rented a hall, and he asked the band to play. “One of the guys from the band, his father was a furniture salesman for Traub’s Furniture of Bay Shore,” said Nolan. They were a conglomeration of several other bands and had a charismatic singer, Joey DeSane.”Ī local connection got the boys an album contract for “Island in the Sky.” “They called themselves The Mark of Quality when they started out. “We thought our friends would be as big as the Beatles,” Nolan recalled. The music was changing so drastically rock and roll kind of started in the mid-50s and we were right in the thick of it.”Īlso, The Tuneful Trolley was from Islip. “They talk about the generation gap, and there really was one between parents and their kids then. “It was a very exciting time for popular music,” Nolan recalled. At age 12, he picked up the guitar, played a bit, and watched Dick Clark, a television icon known for hosting his daily teen show. Nolan remembers thinking, This is for me, when he first heard rock-and-roll songs like “Good Golly, Miss Molly” by Little Richard and “Johnnie B. One member asked to not be included in the documentary. The original members included Santo Ciccarello, who played lead guitar, vocals and wrote songs (he still lives in Islip) Joey DeSane, lead vocalist (Joey is deceased his brother Frank took his place for the reunion concert.) Tony Bordonaro, guitar, songwriting, vocals (lives in Florida now) Brian Parks, bass and vocals (lives in Seattle) and Paul Conocenti, organ, backing vocals. If you’re interested in 1960s music, and how six young teens were discovered by a member of Jay and the Americans, then signed by Capitol Records for their first and only album, then come on down. Nolan offered to tape the concert when he found out the band was playing at the well-known bar at the time, then mused, “Hmmm, I think there’s something here.” His documentary, “The Tuneful Trolley,” and their 50th anniversary reunion concert in 2018 at the former Viking Pub on Main Street in Islip, is being screened at the Long Island International Film Expo on Wednesday, Aug. Nolan, the patriarch, was involved with local politics his son, Phil Nolan, among the six Nolan siblings, would become an Islip Town supervisor.īut Joe Nolan was attracted to rock and roll. Joe Nolan grew up in Islip on Bertram Street in a family known for its political aspirations: Philip J.
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