THE FOUR LADS
St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto, Ontario has traditionally limited the number of enrollees it admits each year to a few dozen. Auditions are held and for each boy accepted the training is rigorous; performing as part of the boys' choir at St. Michael's Cathedral is the honor every student strives for. Several Toronto-born teenagers had gone through this process and been accepted to the school in 1947 and '48; they eventually became members of two of the most successful pop music vocal groups of the 1950s. After graduating from St. Michael's, Corrado "Connie" Codarini and Bernie Toorish started a quartet with schoolmates Rudi Maugeri and John Perkins. At some point, Rudi and John left and formed The Crew-Cutswith Pat Barrett and John's brother ... MORE ››
