The Rascals — Wikipedia
The Rascals (initially known as The Young Rascals ) is a group of American Blue-Eyed Soul from the 1960s, trained in Garfield, New Jersey in 1965.
Between 1966 and 1968, The Rascals entered the top 20 of Billboard Hot 100 with nine singles, with for example the n O first Good Lovin’ (1966), Groovin’ (1967), and People Got to Be Free (1968), as well as large radio hits such as How Can I Be Sure? ( n O 4 in 1967), A Beautiful Morning ( n O 3 in 1968), or A Girl Like You (n ° 10 and 1967).
They were one of the main representatives of Blue-Eyed Soul [ first ] .
The group was inducted at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 [ 2 ] .
The Rascals were enthroned in the “Hit-Parade Hall of Fame” in 2010, and met in 2012 for a series of shows in New York and New Jersey. The meeting continued in 2013 with shows on Broadway.
Eddie Brigati (song), Felix Cavaliere (keyboard, song), Cornish gene (guitar) and Dino Danelli (drums) create the group in Garfield, in New Jersey. Brigati, Cavaliere, and Cornish had already been members of “Joey Dee and the Starliters”. David Brigati, brother of Eddie and original member of the Starliters, helped the arrangement of vocal harmonies and participated in the choirs on many group recordings (informally obtaining the name of “Fifth Rascal”).
After having signed at Atlantic Records, they discover that another group, the “harmonica rascals” by Borrah Minnevitch and Johnny Puleo, oppose the broadcasting of albums under the name of “The Rascals”. To avoid conflicts, the producer of Sid Bernstein decides to rename the group “The Young Rascals”.
The first television appearance of young rasals takes place the during the program Hullaboo , during which they interpret their first single I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore . The title becomes n O 23 in Canada, and enter the rankings of the American charts. This modest success was followed, still in 1966, by the single Good Lovin’ which reached first place in the United States and Canada (song originally recorded by “Lemme B. Good & The Olympics” in 1965, with very different lyrics).
Eddie Brigati and Cavaliere, the band composers, are starting to provide most of the group’s titles, and successes were linked during the following two years. After Good Lovin’ , You Better Run (1966, taken up in 1980 by Pat Benatar) and Come On Up are modest successes. (I’ve Been) Lonely Too Long (1967) does better, and Groovin’ (1967, n O 1 in the United States and Canada,) brings them to the top of the charts. A series of top 20 follows, including A Girl Like You (1967), How Can I Be Sure (1967), It’s Wonderful (1968), and A Beautiful Morning (1968). The group is very popular in Canada, where A Girl Like You , How Can I Be Sure And A Beautiful Morning all become n O 1. Unlike in the United Kingdom, they only reach the top 75 twice, with Groovin’ ( n O 8) and A Girl Like You ( n O 35). The group is called The Young Rascals for the last time when leaving the single It’s Wonderful . From that moment, they will simply be called the Rascals.
Bruce Eder, on Allmusic, talks about the album Groovin’ In 1967 as the best album in the group, whose bases he highlighted from soul music and the innovative use of instrumental arrangements from jazz and Latin music. Once Upon A Dream , in 1968, was the first album designed as such, rather than a support intended to compile their singles (on the album Groovin’ , eight songs on the eleven had been published in singles or in B faces before the publication of the album). Once Upon A Dream , who culminated in 9 It is Place on the charts, contains the single It’s Wonderful as well as many other good songs, especially Easy Rollin’ , Rainy Day , My World , and the title song. For certainly understandable reasons, the song My Hawaii The top of the charts arrived in Hawaii.
Time Peace: The Rascals’ Greatest Hits , published in mid-1968, leads the charts in the United States and becomes the best-selling album in the group. In 1969 released the album Freedom suite , which contains “People Got To Be Free”, a plea for racial tolerance (the group was known to refuse to make concerts when the sale of tickets was the subject of segregation) following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. The title becomes their third and last n O 1 in the United States, and their sixth and last n O 1 in Canada. He was also the last top ten in the United States.
A Ray of Hope , Heaven , See , And Carry Me Back were all successful in the United States at the end of 1968 and in 1969: all entered the top 40, but none beyond n O 24. In Canada, however, the Rascals are still large stars: all these titles have entered top ten, creating an uninterrupted series of 11 top ten in a row, between 1967 and 1969. In , Hold On breaks the American top 40 series by ranking n O 51, as well as the series of Canadians Top 10 by ranking n O 22.
During their greatest celebrity period, the group’s influence on the stage “R&B played by whites” was unequaled, especially in the northeast of the United States. Groups that have taken up (up to a sometimes parody level) the attitude and energy of the racals, as well as their intense and hyper-dramalization could have achieved a certain notoriety: the vagrants (with the West, later from the later Mountain group), or Vanilla Fudge with their overflowing psychedelic funky, all pulled their style from the rastals, and their mixture of show biz and soul.
Brigati left the group in 1970, followed by Cornish in 1971. Their last album with the Rascals was Search and Nearness ( n O 198 in the United States), in which Brigati sings You Don’t Know On Cornish words, and including a cover of a hit of the box tops, The Letter , as well as Fortunes , a composition of the Danelli drummer. The only single of the album classified in the charts was Glory, Glory ( n O 58 in the United States, n O 40 in Canada), with The Sweet Inspirations for Choirs. Search and Nearness was the last album of the Rascals for Atlantic Records, Cavaliere and Danelli signing at Columbia Records in mid-1971.
For the following two albums, Peaceful World ( n O 122 in the United States) and The Island of Real ( n O 180 in the United States), Cavaliere’s writing evolves towards a style more inspired by jazz and gospel, with Robert Popwell in the bass, Buzzy FEITEN on guitar, and the new singers Annie Sutton and Molly Holt. These albums do not sell as well as their predecessors, and none of the singles which are drawn from it exceeds the 95 It is rank in the American charts.
At the end of 1970, Danny Weis (previously a member of the Rhinoceros and Iron Butterfly groups) replaced FEITEN on the guitar, then FEITEN resumed his place before the dissolution of the group.
- 1966 – The Young Rascals
- 1967 – Collections
- 1967 – Groovin’
- 1968 – Once Upon A Dream
- 1969 – Freedom Suite
- 1969 – See
- 1971 – Search and Nearness
- 1971 – Peaceful World
- 1972 – The Island of Real
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