- The Rocky Fellers
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. [cite news |title='The Rockefellers' ("sic") Member Dies at 62 |url=http://www.asianjournal.com/data/PDF/2007_LA/2007_03_14/2007_LA__03_14_Sec-Ap%20%2015.pdf |format=PDF |work=Los Angeles Asian Journal |page=A15 |date=March 14-16, 2007 |accessdate=2008-05-21] They had only onehit 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 theMickey and Sylvia hit, "Love is Strange ." [ [http://www.spaceagepop.com/piro.htm "Killer Joe" Piro ] ]"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 arrivingBritish Invasion bands.Thus they remain known as
one-hit wonder s.References
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