THE DOVELLS
Several student songsters at Overbrook High School, basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain's alma mater, made the most of their geographical good fortune in the late 1950s and early '60s. Philadelphia had become a musical hotbed after the locally-produced, nationally-televised American Bandstand took off in the summer of '57, giving the show's producers (including host Dick Clark) the unprecedented power, by virtue of the show's enormous popularity, to break recording acts and help shape the tastes of America's youth. These Overbrook boys formed at about that time, briefly calling themselves The Cashmeres, then The Brooktones as a tribute to the school (both names, it turned out, were being used by groups in other parts of the country) ... MORE ››
