Peter Lemongello

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Name = Peter Lemongello

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Img_capt = Peter Lemongello "Do I Love You" (1976)
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Background = vocalist
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Born = 1947|
Country = flagicon|USA United States
Instrument = Voice
Genre = Pop
Occupation = Singer
Entrepreneur
Years_active = 1976 - Present
Label = Private Stock Records
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Peter Lemongello is an American singer from Islip, Long Island, New York. In 1976, he became the first person to sell a million records through a television direct marketing campaign. [ http://www.charlesrapp.com/Details.aspx?mId=136 Charles Rapp Enterprises – Peter Lemongello Retrieved 5 May 2007] He also was the first entertainer to underwrite a television direct Ad campaign selling shares in the project to private investors. [ http://mailman.xmission.com/pipermail/exotica/2002-September/006055.html [e-mail] Exotica .com]

Using a city-by-city marketing strategy, he and his partners began their "Love ‘76", Ad campaign on late-night TV in New York, New York on January 1, 1976 targeting all six New York metropolitan channels 70 to 100 times a week. The album, "Do I Love You", a two-record set took off slowly at first selling 43,000 copies in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey in 13 weeks. After signing with Private Stock Records, in April 1976 they began the same campaign in Los Angeles and Las Vegas [ “The $390,000 Man” Time; Monday, May. 31, 1976] and the album began to sell on an unprecedented level attracting widespread media attention.

Lemongello came up with the idea after a failed cabaret career and repeated appearances on national TV including three on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1711180/ IMBd Direct] After the success of the Ad campaign he performed at Carnegie Hall, 
Madison Square Garden and The Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts before once again fading into obscurity. [Rapp Ent] In recent years he has performed in Branson, Missouri [http://www.bransonworld.com/shows/branson_shows/branson/80/22/brett_family_singers.html Branson World.com Retrieved 9 May 2007] and in other appearances across the country. [Rapp Entertainment]

References

External links

* [http://www.plemongello.com] The Official Peter Lemongello Website

* [http://www.bigbeatproductions.com/pages/MenuTopics/Singers.html] Big Beat Productions Retrieved 7 May 2007.

* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947685-1,00.html] “The $390,000 Man” Time Magazine; Monday, 31 May 1976 Retrieved 9 May 2007

* [http://www.charlesrapp.com/Details.aspx?mId=136] Charles Rapp Enterprises Retrieved 5 May 2007