- I Love You Darling The Apollos 2:22
I have always loved oldies and the street corner & garage groups that sang the first “doo-wop” songs in Philadelphia, New York City, and various towns in New Jersey. Many of us know the classic doo-wop songs like “Come and Go with Me” by the Del Vikings and “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” by Frankie Lyman and The Teenagers, but the songs I love the most are the rare, “lost” songs by groups hardly anyone ,except doo-wop/oldie nerds like myself, know of, like The Apollos…
The Apollos from Newark, NJ. consisted of Joseph Bertolino, Danny Studnicky, James LaParra, Mike Azzolino, & George Deutsch (with Danny Studnicky singing the lead.) In 1959, The Apollos recorded “I Love You Darling” b/w “Bandstand Baby” released by Harvard records, owned by Trade Martin and Johnny Power. The two formed Rome Records in 1960. This was the group’s only release. Legal action or the threat of legal action from Dick Clark over the word “Bandstand” in the flip side’s title negatively impacted the sales of the record and caused the group to disband.