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Bronx In Blue

As doo-wop giant Dion points out in the liner notes to Bronx in Blue, there was no rock & roll back when he was growing up in New York, and so it was the Southern sounds of the blues and country coming over the radio that set him off on his brilliant musical career. On Bronx, the former Belmonts...

2006 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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2003

King Of The New York Streets

2000

Yo Frankie!

1989

The Return Of The Wanderer

1978

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Dion DiMucci was one of the greatest singers of the late-'50s, early-'60s rock period before the Beatles arrived in the U.S. Born July 18, 1939, in the Bronx borough of New York City, Dion came on the scene at the tail end of the doo-wop era, in 1958, bringing with him a solid musical foundation that found him conversant not only with pop music and R&B, but with country and blues as well. By sugge...

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