The Rocky Fellers
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The Rocky Fellers were discovered as a pop/rock band in the 1960s by Stanley Kahn and signed to Scepter Records. The group was comprised of four Filipino brothers: Tony, Junior, Eddie, and Albert Maligmat, and their father, Doroteo "Moro" Maligmat.[1] They had only one hit single called "Killer Joe", written by Bert Burns in 1963. The song was inspired by famed dance instructor and "King of the Discotheque," Killer Joe Piro. It has many similarities to the chorus of the Mickey and Sylvia hit, "Love is Strange."[2]
"Killer Joe" reached No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1963. Without any follow-ups in sight, the song was repackaged with other R&B and jazz hits by Atlantic Records for Piro's dance record, Killer Joe's International Discotheque. The Rocky Fellers faded quickly from the music scene in the mid-1960s, due primarily to the arriving British Invasion bands.
Thus they remain known as one-hit wonders.
[edit] References
- ^ "'The Rockefellers' (sic) Member Dies at 62" (PDF), Los Angeles Asian Journal, March 14-16, 2007, p. A15. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ "Killer Joe" Piro
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