Real good feeling angel rissoff biography

"Neil Elliot and myself were roommates on Beverly Glen off and on 
from 1967 to 1969. That we used to give great parties and we always 
had a three pound coffee can full of strained grass... I'm sure there 
are people who must remember our house - the tree house- 
at 937 Beverly Glen."

Gail (Collins) Pappalardi was married to Felix of Mountain. She
wrote a song for the  Disraeli Gears album, "World of
Pain" and songs for Mountain albums. What became of her?

Aaron Wolfson has contacted the website. He was just a young
kid, but he remembers Pandora's Box, Schwabbs Drugstore. His
drummer's dad was a promoter for the Monterey Pop Festival.

Kim Nash wrote in an email that Barry McGuire is alive
and well. Wants me to add these names: 
, who street sang in front of the record
store while everyone else was hitting it big.
Kim attended Lenny Bruce's funeral riding in Frank Zappa's
station wagon. Phil Spector gave the eulogy, "Lenny died of
an overdose of police." 
Kim's email:  kimnashdreamtime@yahoo.com  

            
First album cover         Blodwyn Pig

Michael McRae, Nashville, has been searching for James Rolleston. They
played together in Sweet Wine, 1968.
             

         
Palace Guard               "Space"
Members of Space:  Terry Rae, Eric Gies,
John Anderson, and Sterling Storm

Janet Planet was a popular name around Hollywood. She hung around the
Whisky. She remembers Mario and his son Stephen. She used to have
coffee on Sundays at Farmer's Market with Pamela DesBarres and her ex, Michael. Over the years, she has worked at Capitol Records

All About Angel

Angel belongs to that small but select group of soul singers who value the great American soul and R&B traditions while keeping their special musical language crisp and fresh. In an age dominated by artifice and empty gesture, this native New Yorker sings directly from the heart in the easeful manner of someone with an intimate understanding of the word “soulfulness.” Angel has a special affinity for time-honored material from black vocal groups, cuts right to the emotional core, and his songs pulsate with the joy of rediscovery.

With his deeply resonant voice dipping, swooping and vaulting ever so purposefully, he adopted the name “Little Leopold” to sing lead on Little Isadore & the Inquisitors’ smash single “Harlem Hit Parade.” From 1999 to 2007, Angel was a member of the acclaimed vocal group, Kenny Vance and The Planotones.

Over the years, he has kept busy in soul, R&B and rock circles as well as in the Beach Music scene down the coast, where he’s known as “The Bronx Bomber of Soul.” He was lead singer for the Florida-based band, Kollektion, and made an album as part of the critically acclaimed group, Diamond, Angel and Crooks. He also fronted the GC Dangerous band with original Rascal Gene Cornish on guitar.

Angel has performed with many notables of American music: Cyndi Lauper, at Carnegie Hall and in the studio; Chuck Berry, for a memorable New Year’s Eve show; boogie master John Lee Hooker; pre-Beatles teen idol Dion; uptown soul man Chuck Jackson; premier blues guitarists Robben Ford and Matt “Guitar” Murphy; girl groups’ singing dynamo Darlene Love; smooth-voiced Harvey Fuqua; James Brown’s super-charged keyboardist Bobby Byrd, and Paul Schaffer.

Born to sing, Angel first appeared in vocal groups at the age of 12. A couple of years later, in the 1970s, he joined his first band, the Soul Masters, as a bass player. During those years, young Angel absorbed the sounds of soul, doo-wop, jump blues, straight-out R&B, voca

He’s the guy who invented Otis Day & The Knights for the film “Animal House.” He turned John Cafferty & Beaver Brown into “Eddie & The Cruisers,” and he invented The Planotones for the film “American Hot Wax.” By Don Wilcock Kenny Vance calls what he does “recreating reality.”

He’s the guy who invented Otis Day & The Knights for the film “Animal House.” He turned John Cafferty & Beaver Brown into “Eddie & The Cruisers,” and he invented The Planotones for the film “American Hot Wax.”

Kenny Vance & The Planotones are the only group on the Golden Oldies Spectacular bill at Proctor’s Saturday night that doesn’t have at least one oldies hit.

And yet their credentials are the strongest of the bunch. Lou Christie had hits with “Lightning Strikes” and “The Gypsy Cried.”

The Duprees scored with “You Belong to Me” and “Have You Heard.” Joey Dee & The Starliters first popularized the twist, and The Tokens will always be remembered for the eerie “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” But none of these headliners has a history as long or as pervasive in pop music as Kenny Vance.

“You have to recreate reality,” explains Vance, who was the second vocalist in Jay and The Americans for their entire 11-year history and then went on to create music scenes for the classic films listed above.

“If it’s not reality, it doesn’t resonate in the audience (either) in the movie theater or in a live performance. So I always strive to create reality on the screen or on the stage.”

Kenny Vance’s soul was baptized as a white teen-ager living in Brooklyn sneaking into the black nightclubs to see live acts such as Jackie “Higher and Higher” Wilson, Sam Cooke, The Olympics, The Drifters and The Coasters. It was The Coasters’ producers, Leiber and

Roadmaster – Roxy Perry
Leave My Woman Alone – Ray Charles
Cold Woman With Warm Hearts – Albert King
Woman Down In Texas – Mark Kerr
It's A New Day – James Brown
It’s A Man’s World – Luciano Pavarotti / James Brown
Cold Sweat – Frankie Paris
Whole Dog – Roxy Perry
Everybody Get Down – Funk Filharmonik
Fire On The Bayou