Jul032025

The Crests

The Crests was a popular New York City R&B musical group of the late 1950s, often thought to be another all-black teenage-sound band, they were in fact about as integrated as a group could get, with four men (two of them black, one Puerto Rican and one Italian) and one black female. The band was founded by JT Carter and included Talmoudge Gough, Harold Torres, and Patricia Van Dross (older sister of the late Luther Vandross) JT found lead vocalist Johnny Mastrangelo (later just Johnny Maestro). Read more on Last.fm

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# Title Plays
1Sixteen Candles
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216 Candles
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3Step by Step
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4The Angels Listened In
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5Trouble in Paradise
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6Earth Angel
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7I Remember (In the Still of the Night)
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8Six Nights a Week
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9My Juanita
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1016 Candles (Re-Recorded / Remastered)
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