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Proposal to
The Skyliners
Marketing Entertainment Package
Includes:
Cover letter, pricing and layouts for
“The Skyliners 50th Anniversary
Since I Don’t Have You” Marketing Campaign
and
optional pricing and layouts.
#1
9 x 12 FOLDER COVER DESIGN of
The Skyliners “50th Golden Anniversary of “Since I Don’t Have You” titled, Memories
See Skyliners’s Marketing Package Proposal for Pricing & Specs
The Skyliners
THE UNMISTAKABLE SOUND
For booking information please contact:
Nick Pociask
74 Aber Road, Finleyville, PA 15332
office: 412.672.7799
•
[email protected]
•
www.TheSkyliners.com
Cover
Back
The Skyliners
Dear Mr. (or Ms.who ever it may be)
We would like to introduce you to the “Unmistakable Sound” of The Skyliners.
Within this package is a CD that will acquaint you with that sound.
December of 2008 marks the beginning of the 50th anniversary of our gold record “Since I Don’t Have You”.
We were the first Pittsburgh rock n’ roll group to have live strings as part of our background accompaniment.
All of The Skyliner’s music lends itself to full orchestration and we would welcome the opportunity to be a part of
your upcoming season(s). We would also welcome your inquiries should you happen to incur a last minute guest
cancellation.
[email protected]
On the CD is The Skyliners “classic” Number 1 Hit song “Since I Don’t Have You” as well as the title cut “One
More Mountain To Climb” from our latest CD (One More Mountain).
From our first appearance on “American Bandstand” in 1959 to our most recent performances on the PBS Specials
(DooWop50, Moments to Remember, Cavalcade of Music and My Music) we would like to introduce you to our
most recent venture called “MEMORIES”.
Thank you for considering THE SKYLINERS to be a part of your season(s).
Sincerely,
Nick Pociask
74 Aber Road, Finley, PA 15332
74 Aber Road,office:
Finleyville,
PA 15332
724.348.0728
[email protected]
www.theskyliners.com
office: 412.672.7799 • [email protected]
• www.TheSkyliners.com
Booking: 412.672.7799
Nick A. Pociask
Business Manager
The Skyliners
Nick Pociask
Business Manager
office: 412.672.7799
[email protected]
#1
Inside spread with marketing materials tucked under the circular flaps.
The CD and business card are inserted into die-cuts on the flaps on both sides
The Skyliners
All of The Skyliner’s music lends itself to full orchestration and we would welcome the opportunity to be a part of
your upcoming season(s). We would also welcome your inquiries should you happen to incur a last minute guest
cancellation.
From our first appearance on “American Bandstand” in 1959 to our most recent performances on the PBS Specials
(DooWop50, Moments to Remember, Cavalcade of Music and My Music) we would like to introduce you to our
most recent venture called “MEMORIES”.
Thank you for considering THE SKYLINERS to be a part of your season(s).
Sincerely,
Nick A. Pociask
Business Manager
Nick Pociask
office: 412.672.7799 • [email protected] • www.TheSkyliners.com
#2
8 1/2 x 11 LETTERHEAD WITH COVER LETTER
See Skyliner’s Marketing Package Proposal for Pricing & Specs
The Skyliners
For booking information please contact Nick Pociask
office: 412.672.7799 • [email protected] • www.TheSkyliners.com
#3 & #4
CD ART (Top) & CD INSERT, FRONT & BACK
[email protected]
Booking: 412.672.7799
The Skyliners
Nick A. Pociask
Business Manager
office: 412.672.7799
[email protected]
#5 & #6
8 x 10 PROMOTIONAL PICTURE & BUSINESS CARD
MEDIA RELEASE
50TH Anniversary – “Since I Don’t Have You”
December 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the all-time hit songs of Rock and Roll,
“Since I Don’t Have You”. Recorded by the Skyliners in New York City at the Capitol Studio, the
song was released as a 45 rpm record on Pittsburgh’s own “Calico” label and went on to become
a million-seller.
The hit-producing team of Skyliners’ manager, Joe Rock, who wrote the lyrics, and legendary lead
vocalist, Jimmy Beaumont, who composed the music, led to the creation of this quintessential
‘50s ballad. “Since I Don’t Have You” is heard on radio, even today. The Skyliners soulful and
dynamic delivery, balanced by the lush, string-filled arrangement of Pittsburgh’s Lenny Martin,
created a recording that went straight to the top of the national charts.
The original Skyliners, comprised of Jimmy Beaumont, Janet Vogel, Wally Lester, Joe Verscharen,
and Jack Taylor - all from the Steel City - performed their hit composition at the Apollo Theatre in
Harlem, New York as well as the Brooklyn Fox Theater for producer Alan Freed, and Dick Clark’s
television show “American Bandstand” (Philadelphia, Pa.). “Since I Don’t Have You” has made
its way onto the soundtracks of major motion pictures such as “American Graffiti” and “Lethal
Weapon 2”. Throughout five decades other nationally known artists recorded their own arrangements of this golden masterpiece.
In recent years Jimmy Beaumont and the Skyliners have been a substantial part of the PBS Specials (DooWop50, Moments to Remember, Cavalcade of Music, My Music). And today, members
Donna Groom, Nick Pociask, Dick Muse, drummer/conductor Mark Groom and legendary leader,
Jimmy Beaumont, continue to thrill live audiences in the United States and Canada each time they
perform “Since I Don’t Have You”.
For further information go to: www.TheSkyliners.com (contact the group).
The Skyliners
#7
8 1/2 x 11 PRESS RELEASE
See Skyliner’s Marketing Package Proposal for Pricing & Specsg
#8
8 1/2 x 11 TESTIMONIAL LETTER
The Skyliners
74 Aber Road
Finleyville, PA 15332
The Skyliners
74 Aber Road
Finleyville, PA 15332
#9 & #10
10 x 13 BOOKLET ENVELOPE & #10 ENVELOPE
#12
9 x 12 FOLDER COVER DESIGN (4” POCKETS) of
The Skyliners
Nick Pociask
office: 412.672.7799
•
[email protected]
•
Cover
Back
The Skyliners
mances on the PBS Specials
Nick Pociask
74 Aber Road, Finley, PA 15332
74 Aber Road,office:
Finleyville,
PA 15332
724.348.0728
[email protected]
office: 412.672.7799 • [email protected]
• www.TheSkyliners.com
Booking: 412.672.7799
Nick Pociask
Business Manager
From our first appearance
office: 412.672.7799
[email protected]
All of The Skyliner’s music lends itself to full orchestration and we would welcome the opportunity to be a part
of your upcoming season(s). We you
happen to incur a last minute guest
cancellation.
The Skyliners
[email protected]
Inside spread with marketing materials tucked under the 4” pockets.
The CD and business card are inserted into die-cuts on the flaps on both sides
5 1/2 x 8 1/2
FOLLOW-UP
POST CARD
45 days from the first mailing (or drop) the
Skyliners will mail out a follow-up “postcard” mailing to the same mailing list.
This marketing piece acts as a “reminder”
just in case the main mailing didn’t get
through to the key person to whom it was
directed too. It also keeps the image or
branding in front of it’s directed target audience.
A third one should follow in another 45
days. The copy on each postcard should be
slightly different. Again wanting the potential client to “Call to Action”.
Mr Rico Orisak
San Diego Symphony
2750 Wheatstone Street
San Diego, CA 92111
#13 and/or #14
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 FOLLOW-UP POST CARD
BULK RATE
MAIL
PERMIT NO.
11436
SAN DIEGO
BACK
Nick Pociask was born, raised and
lived a large part of his life in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Nick had an aunt
and uncle in the business that played
guitar and sang country music. From
a very early age (4 or 5), Nick would
listen to them sing and play. He was
hooked. Eventually his desire ended
in his neighbor teaching him to play
the guitar. In high school, Nick joined
a group called “The Prophets” and
after that, “The Yesterday”. He sang
and played rhythm guitar for these
groups. Nick took a break from music, but resurfaced in the early 80’s in
a group called “Class Reunion”. One
more change would occur until Nick
joined “The Skyliners”. That would
be with a show band called “Magic
Moments”. Nick remained with that
group until he was asked by Jimmy
Beaumont to join “The Skyliners”.
Nick Pociask sings bass, baritone and
at times, lead for “The Skyliners. He
has a 4 to 5 octave range and loves to
“hurt himself” by singing falsetto.
Nick’s second love is pool. He rarely
misses an opportunity to play and is
in a league, along with Jimmy Beaumont, once or twice a week. Nick
now lives more in the country and
finds great solace in the beautiful
scenery and wildlife that Pennsylvania has to offer. Along with his
wife, Sheila, and Golden Retriever,
Donna Groom began singing at 18
months and learned to play the piano
at 2 and a half. She also learned to
play the pipe organ and played regularly for service at 9 years old. Her
formal training was with concert pianists in Dayton Ohio and Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania. These studies took her
through many years of performances
and competitions, some of which she
was a first place winner. One of her
accomplishments was performing
the Grieg Piano Concerto with the
symphony orchestra at 15.
After attending Duquesne University
on scholarship, she joined “Jimmy
Beaumont and The Skyliners” as the
female lead vocalist. The Pittsburgh
based group is best known for their
1959 hit single, “Since I Don’t Have
You”. Their performances have taken
them all over the country in most major music halls including Radio City
and Madison Square Gardens in New
York City, Symphony Hall in Boston,
Academy of Music in Philadelphia,
Westbury Music Fair in Long Island,
and The Greek Theater in Los Angeles.
Donna and Skyliners’ drummer Mark
Groom currently work as a self-contained act that has been playing better nightspots across the country. In
an age of computer generated music,
Donna and Mark play everything live.
FRONT
Dick Muse joined “The Skyliners”
in 1999 after the untimely death of
David Proch. He sings a mean second tenor for group. Dick has been
involved in music since 1956 when
he was a member of “The Condors”
musical group in McKeesport, PA.
In 1957 he formed “The Laurels”
singing group while he was attending West Liberty State College in
Pennsylvania where he majored in
English and subsequently received
his B.A. in 1960. That same year,
the “Laurels” recorded their first
recording, “Working Man” at World
Records. The “Laurels” disbanded
after graduation. Dick went on to a
teaching career.
In 1978 Dick received a M.A. degree
in English from California State College at California, Pennsylvania.
In 1988, Dick became a member of
the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania group,
“The Memories”. In 1990, Dick he
moved on to the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania group, “The DeVilles”. In
1992, he resurrected “The Laurels”.
The group produced several CD’s
including:
The Test of Time, 1993
Our Town Has A Voice, 1995
R & B Odyssey, 1997
Keeping Tradition, 1998.
The Skyliners
For booking information please contact
Phone: 724.348.0728
[email protected]
If you were to put together the harmonies of the best ‘50s R&B groups you
would have an unbelievably perfect blend of voices emanating from five white
Pittsburgh teenagers – Jimmy Beaumont and the Skyliners. From their first appearance on American Bandstand in 1959 to their most recent performances
on the PBS Doo Wop Specials, the Skyliners have entertained and thrilled audiences all over North America for over 50 years. Their hit gold record, “Since I
Don’t Have You” has been featured in such popular motion pictures as, “American Graffiti”,“American Hot Wax”,“Lethal Weapon 2”,“LaBamba”, and more than a
dozen others. This is their story...
It is obvious that lead singer, Jimmy Beaumont, long ago achieved
the hope that he once expressed for The Skyliners to be remembered as one of the best harmony groups of all time. The Skyliners
created a new style of music by combining the streetwise harmonies of rhythm and blues groups like the The Moonglows and The
Flamingos with the most sophisticated modern harmony style of
The Four Freshman and The Hi Los. Just as important a factor in
their longevity was the business partnership between lead vocalist
Jimmy Beaumont and aptly named manager, Joe Rock, that kept
the act commercially viable for over four decades. Except for Elvis
manager, Colonel Tom Parker, and The Beatles Manager, Brian
Epstein, there is perhaps no other manager whose name is more
associated with a group.
In 1958 , Jimmy, Wally Lester and Jack Taylor-who had been
singing with Joe Rock’s group, The Cresents - combined with Joe
Versharen and Janet Vogel from The ElRios, another vocal group
from Pittsburgh’s South Hills. Joe Rock, then named them for jazz
orchestra leader Charlie Barnett’s theme song “Skyliner”.
The Skyliners could have no better advocate than Joe Rock,
an ambitious youth not much older than themselves, who was an
industry insider with contacts gained from working as a promotion
man for a local record distributor.
The song that would inspire their success was inspired when
a secretary at a radio station that
Joe was promoting, said that
she didn’t want to date him
anymore. While driving a few
nights later, Joe conceived the
words to the song and later
Jimmy Beaumont provided the
melody. Today, “Since I Don’t
Have You” is regarded as the
quintessential fifties ballad from
standard pop.
The recording itself was a
radical departure from teenage
Rock and Roll. True to the groups
vision of combining two different
musical styles, The Skyliners’ blue
eyed soul delivery is balanced by
the lush string filled arrangement
by Pittsburgher Lenny Martin. The
same concept of introducing full orchestra arrangement to Rock
and Roll would later prove successful for the Drifters(“There Goes
My Baby”), The Duprees (“My Own True Love”) and Phil Spector’s
“wall of sound” productions.
Legend has it that Janet ad libbed the song’s memorable ending in high C (after repeating thirteen “you’s”) as a joke during
rehersals. The group liked it so much they made it a permanent
part of their arrangement. More than a dozen labels rejected
the song before it was released by a local Pittsburgh label, Calico
Records.
Credit for “breaking” “Since I Don’t Have You” goes to deejay
“Art Pallan of Pittsburgh’s leading pop station KDKA, but the other
Pittsburgh stations were not far behind. Dick Clark was an early
believer in the group and featured them on American Bandstand
on Friday, February 13, 1959. By March of 1959, “Since I Don’t
Have You” had spread from Pittsburgh to the national pop charts.
The soulful delivery was appreciated even more by R&B radio
resulting in greater success in the rhythm and blues Cashbox
Magazine. It was the first single by a Caucasian group to hit #1 on
the Cashbox R&B charts.
Alan Freed invited The Skyliners to New York to appear on
his 1959 Easter stage show with Jackie Wilson, Fats Domino, and
Bobby Darin. They also made 8 appearances at the Apollo Theatre
in Harlem. Dick Clark took them on the road with his “Caravan of Stars” tour and featured them on
Bandstand and his Saturday night
television show numerous
times.
In 1960, Calico released
its first album, “The Skyliners”, containing twelve
songs, including both sides
of the group’s first two
self-penned singles, ‘Since I
Don’t Have You”, B/W “One
Night, One Night”, and “This
I Swear, B/W “Tomorrow”
as well as another original,
“Tired of Me”. The rest of
the album was comprised
of standards including “Zing
Went The Strings of My
Heart”, “If I Loved You”, and two songs led by Janet, “When I Fall
In Love” and “I Can Dream Can’t I”. Two other standards from the
album, “Pennies From Heaven”(inspired by The Clovers version)
B/W “I’ll be Seeing You” would be chosen for the group’s fifth
single. It was the Rock and Roll LP to break into the Top 50 Album
chart.
In the interim, “Lonely Way” B/W “It Happened Today” and
“How Much” B/W “Lorraine From Spain” were released. Their
sixth and final Calico single was “Believe Me” B/W “Happy Time”.
The remaining three Calico masters, “Stardust”, “Footsteps”, and
“Blossoms To The Snow” were released years later on a compilation album.
Joe Rock remembered that the group was so well prepared for
their recording sessions that there wasn’t much variation to their
studio performances. The five outtakes preserved in their “40th
Anniversary Edition CD” from their Calico sessions provide fans
with a unique insight into the creative process.
Since their original release, most of the Calico masters have
been kept available through Art Laboe and Paul Politi of Original
Sound Records in Hollywood. Through their efforts this music has
appeared in many motion pictures including “Leathl Weapon
II”, “LaBamba”, “American Graffiti”, and more than a
dozen others. These recordings also continually appear in TV shows and commercials.
In 1961, The Skyliners moved to
the larger Colpix label, the recording
division of Columbia Pictures, and
continued their practice of recording standard established songs like,
“Close Your Eyes”, “The Door Is Still
Open” (Both written by “The King
Of The Stool”, Chuck Willis). These
two songs were backed with original
material written by Joe Rock and
Jimmy Beaumont for Janet.
The Skyliners recorded “Comes
Love”(written by Pittsburgh singer/songwriter Johnny Jack a close friend of the
group) for the local Viscount Label. It was
backed by “Tell Me”, a song that Jimmy liked
so much he also released it as a solo artist on Bang
Records. Both sides received a lot of airplay in the Pittsburgh
area and “Comes Love” became a collector’s favorite. “Tell Me”,
which Rock/Beaumont also wrote, was Jimmy’s mother’s favorite
Skyliner record. By 1963 the group had signed with Atco Records
which released their version of the standard “Since I Fell For You”.
Although Lenny Welch was to have the national hit with his version that year, the flip side of The Skyliners record, “I’d Die”, was
re-discovered in the mid-70’s by 13-Q Radio deejay, Don Bombard
(Now known as Bob Shannon on WCBS ÐFM in New York) and
has become one of their most requested releases.
By the early sixties, the group was growing tired of the road
and decided to take a hiatus from the business. Jummy Beaumont
continued to record and perform as a single act. Joe Rock continued to write songs, notably with Otis Redding(“Dreams To Remember”) and managed other artists including, the Jaggerz(“The
Rapper”).
In 1965, Jack Taylor, with Joe Rock’s permission, fronted a
Skyliner group which recorded “The Loser” on Jubilee Records.
This soulful ballad, written by Taylor and Rock, became a much
played slow dance at Pittsburgh area record hops and charted Top
40 nationally both Pop and R&B.
In the late sixties, interest in the roots of Rock and Roll began
to become evident. Promoter Richard Nader was selling out
Madison Square Garden with his Rock and Roll Revival Shows.
“Grease” became a hit Broadway show, and the first oldies radio
stations were established. (Ironically, in the ‘90’s, “Since I Don’t
Have You” was added to the hit Broadway revival of “Grease” as
the big ballad)
Jimmy, Janet(a housewife), Wally(a Clairol Corp executive) and
Joe(an insurance salesman) still managed by Joe Rock, re-formed
The Skyliners, but refused to be an oldies act. Although they performed their original hits, they continued to explore new material
in The Skyliner style.
In 1974 their Capitol recording of “Where Have They Gone”
became a Number 1 hit on the Pittsburgh Top 10 radio. Unbelievably, it only reached the lower strata of the national charts.
Legendary Doc Pomus co-wrote that tune, which was backed by
a song written by the equally impressive team of Barry Mann and
Gerry Goffin.
“Where The Action Is” veteran, Steve Alaimo, produced the the group’s 1976 release “The Day The
Clown Cried”, a great example of how The
Skyliners continued to adapt their style to
current music.
On January 1, 1976, Wally Lester
and Joe Verscharen retired permanently from The Skyliners. On
February 21st, 1980, tragedy struck
the group. Janet was found in her
car, dead of carbon monoxide poisoning. Jimmy and Joe kept the
group going over the years with
a current lineup of Nick Pociask,
Bass, Baritone and 2nd Tenor, Dick
Muse, First Tenor and the incredibly
talented and beautiful Donna Groom
and of course, Jimmy Beaumont.
In recent years, The Skyliners accomplished a practically impossible feat by creating
not one, but two Christmas standards. The groups version of the Beaumont/Rock compositions “You’re My Christmas
Present” and “Another Lonely New Year’s Eve” are not only heard
across America each holiday season, but have been included on a
number of holiday compact disc collections.
I’ve been fortunate to be a part of those forty years. As a
pre-teen Rock and Roll fan from the South Hills of Pittsburgh I
considered the The Skyliners “local heroes”. In 1961 , at the age
of thirteen, I snuck backstage during KQV appreciation day at
Westview Park to meet Jimmy Beaumont and he treated me as an
equal. Later when I had my own group, I met Joe Rock who made
sure we made a safe exit from a particularly rough dance appearance. When I produced my first radio special “The Pittsburgh
People” for KDKA in 1970, I got to know the rest of The Skyliners,
Wally, Joe and Janet. In 1993, of was quite an honor to join The
Skyliners in Nashville as they received an ASCAP Award for five
million plays of “Since I Don’t Have You”.
And now, I join with their thousands of fans to congratulate
Jimmy Beaumont and The Skyliners and Joe Rock on 40 years of
still creating music that make history.
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t is obvious that lead singer, Jimmy Beaumont, long ago achieved the hope that he once expressed for The Skyliners to be remembered as one
of the best harmony groups of all time. The Skyliners
created a new style of music by combining the streetwise
harmonies of rhythm and blues groups like the The Moonglows and The Flamingos with the most sophisticated
modern harmony style of The Four Freshman and The Hi
Los. Just as important a factor in their longevity was the
business partnership between lead vocalist Jimmy Beaumont and aptly named manager, Joe Rock, that kept the act
commercially viable for over four decades. Except for Elvis
manager, Colonel Tom Parker, and The Beatles Manager,
Brian Epstein, there is perhaps no other manager whose
name is more associated with a group.
In 1958 , Jimmy, Wally Lester and Jack Taylor-who
had been singing with Joe Rock’s group, The Cresents
- combined with Joe Versharen and Janet Vogel from The
ElRios, another vocal group from Pittsburgh’s South Hills.
Joe Rock, then named them for jazz orchestra leader Charlie
Barnett’s theme song “Skyliner”.
The Skyliners could have no better advocate than Joe
Rock, an ambitious youth not much older than themselves,
who was an industry insider with contacts gained from
working as a promotion man for a local record distributor.
The song that would inspire their success was
inspired when a secretary at a radio station that Joe was
promoting, said that she didn’t want to date him anymore.
While driving a few nights later, Joe conceived the words
to the song and later Jimmy Beaumont provided the melody.
Today, “Since I Don’t Have You” is regarded as the quintessential fifties ballad from standard pop.
The recording itself was a radical departure from teenage
Rock and Roll. True to the groups vision of combining two
different musical styles, The Skyliners’ blue eyed soul delivery
is balanced by the lush string filled arrangement by Pittsburgher
Lenny Martin. The same concept of introducing full orchestra
arrangement to Rock and Roll would later prove successful for
the Drifters(“There Goes My Baby”), The Duprees (“My Own
True Love”) and Phil Spector’s “wall of sound” productions.
Legend has it that Janet ad libbed the song’s memorable
ending in high C (after repeating thirteen “you’s”) as a joke
during rehersals. The group liked it so much they made it a
permanent part of their arrangement. More than a dozen labels
rejected the song before it was released by a local Pittsburgh
label, Calico Records.
Credit for “breaking” “Since I Don’t Have You” goes to
deejay “Art Pallan of Pittsburgh’s leading pop station KDKA,
but the other Pittsburgh stations were not far behind. Dick
Clark was an early believer in the group and featured them on
American Bandstand on Friday, February 13, 1959. By March
of 1959, “Since I Don’t Have You” had spread from Pittsburgh
to the national pop charts. The soulful delivery was appreciated even more by R&B radio resulting in greater success in the
rhythm and blues Cashbox Magazine. It was the first single by a
Caucasian group to hit #1 on the Cashbox R&B charts.
Alan Freed invited The Skyliners to New York to appear
on his 1959 Easter stage show with Jackie Wilson, Fats Domino,
and Bobby Darin. They also made 8 appearances at the Apollo
Theatre in Harlem. Dick Clark took them on the road with his
“Caravan of Stars” tour and featured them on Bandstand and his
Saturday night television show numerous times.
In 1960, Calico released its first album, “The Skyliners”,
containing twelve songs, including both sides of the group’s first
two self-penned singles, ‘Since I Don’t Have You”, B/W “One
The Skyliners
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Night, One Night”, and “This I Swear, B/W “Tomorrow” as well as
another original, “Tired of Me”. The rest of the album was comprised
of standards including “Zing Went The Strings of My Heart”, “If I
Loved You”, and two songs led by Janet, “When I Fall In Love” and
“I Can Dream Can’t I”. Two other standards from the album, “Pennies From Heaven”(inspired by The Clovers version) B/W “I’ll be
Seeing You” would be chosen for the group’s fifth single. It was the
Rock and Roll LP to break into the Top 50 Album chart.
“How Much” B/W “Lorraine From Spain” were released. Their sixth
and final Calico single was “Believe Me” B/W “Happy Time”. The
remaining three Calico masters, “Stardust”, “Footsteps”, and “Blossoms To The Snow” were released years later on a compilation album.
Joe Rock remembered that the group was so well prepared
for their recording sessions that there wasn’t much variation to their
studio performances. The five outtakes preserved in their “40th Anniversary Edition CD” from their Calico sessions provide fans with a
unique insight into the creative process.
appeared in many motion pictures including “Leathl Weapon II”, “LaBamba”, “American Graffiti”, and more than a dozen others. These
recordings also continually appear in TV shows and commercials.
In 1961, The Skyliners moved to the larger Colpix label, the
recording division of Columbia Pictures, and continued their practice
of recording standard established songs like, “Close Your Eyes”, “The
Door Is Still Open” (Both written by “The King Of The Stool”, Chuck
Willis). These two songs were backed with original material written
by Joe Rock and Jimmy Beaumont for Janet.
The Skyliners recorded “Comes Love”(written by Pittsburgh
singer/songwriter Johnny Jack a close friend of the group) for the
local Viscount Label. It was backed by “Tell Me”, a song that Jimmy
liked so much he also released it as a solo artist on Bang Records.
Both sides received a lot of airplay in the Pittsburgh area and “Comes
Love” became a collector’s favorite. “Tell Me”, which Rock/Beaumont also wrote, was Jimmy’s mother’s favorite Skyliner record. By
1963 the group had signed with Atco Records which released their
version of the standard “Since I Fell For You”. Although Lenny
Welch was to have the national hit with his version that year, the
flip side of The Skyliners record, “I’d Die”, was re-discovered in the
mid-70’s by 13-Q Radio deejay, Don Bombard (Now known as Bob
Shannon on WCBS ÐFM in New York) and has become one of their
most requested releases.
By the early sixties, the group was growing tired of the road
and decided to take a hiatus from the business. Jummy Beaumont
continued to record and perform as a single act. Joe Rock continued
to write songs, notably with Otis Redding(“Dreams To Remember”)
and managed other artists including, the Jaggerz(“The Rapper”).
In 1965, Jack Taylor, with Joe Rock’s permission, fronted a
Skyliner group which recorded “The Loser” on Jubilee Records. This
soulful ballad, written by Taylor and Rock, became a much played
slow dance at Pittsburgh area record hops and charted Top 40 nationally both Pop and R&B.
In the late sixties, interest in the roots of Rock and Roll began
to become evident. Promoter Richard Nader was selling out Madison
Square Garden with his Rock and Roll Revival Shows. “Grease”
became a hit Broadway show, and the first oldies radio stations were
established. (Ironically, in the ‘90’s, “Since I Don’t Have You” was
added to the hit Broadway revival of “Grease” as the big ballad)
Jimmy, Janet(a housewife), Wally(a Clairol Corp executive)
and Joe(an insurance salesman) still managed by Joe Rock, re-formed
The Skyliners, but refused to be an oldies act. Although they performed their original hits, they continued to explore new material in
The Skyliner style.
In 1974 their Capitol recording of “Where Have They
Gone” became a Number 1 hit on the Pittsburgh Top 10 radio. Unbelievably, it only reached the lower strata of the national charts.
Legendary Doc Pomus co-wrote that tune, which was backed by
a song written by the equally impressive team of Barry Mann and
Gerry Goffin.
“Where The Action Is” veteran, Steve Alaimo, produced
the the group’s 1976 release “The Day The Clown Cried”, a great
example of how The Skyliners continued to adapt their style to
current music.
On January 1, 1976, Wally Lester and Joe Verscharen
retired permanently from The Skyliners. On February 21st,
1980, tragedy struck the group. Janet was found in her car, dead
of carbon monoxide poisoning. Jimmy and Joe kept the group
going over the years with a current lineup of Nick Pociask, Bass,
Baritone and 2nd Tenor, Dick Muse, First Tenor and the incredibly talented and beautiful Donna Groom and of course, Jimmy
Beaumont.
In recent years, The Skyliners accomplished a practically
impossible feat by creating not one, but two Christmas standards.
The groups version of the Beaumont/Rock compositions “You’re
My Christmas Present” and “Another Lonely New Year’s Eve” are
not only heard across America each holiday season, but have been
included on a number of holiday compact disc collections.
I’ve been fortunate to be a part of those forty years. As a
pre-teen Rock and Roll fan from the South Hills of Pittsburgh I
considered the The Skyliners “local heroes”. In 1961 , at the age
of thirteen, I snuck backstage during KQV appreciation day at
Westview Park to meet Jimmy Beaumont and he treated me as an
equal. Later when I had my own group, I met Joe Rock who made
sure we made a safe exit from a particularly rough dance appearance. When I produced my first radio special “The Pittsburgh
People” for KDKA in 1970, I got to know the rest of The Skyliners, Wally, Joe and Janet. In 1993, of was quite an honor to join
The Skyliners in Nashville as they received an ASCAP Award for
five million plays of “Since I Don’t Have You”.
And now, I join with their thousands of fans to congratulate
Jimmy Beaumont and The Skyliners and Joe Rock on 40 years of
still creating music that make history.
INSIDE PANELS
#17
15 3/4” x 9” GATEFOLD BROCHURE
CD MAILER COVER DESIGN
The CD mailer has 4 panels (front
& back) that folds down to 5
inches square. It folds as such so
the panel you see to the left is actually the cover. It is designed to
have the look of a 45 RPM record
sleeve.
The label of your (gold) record
is printed on the sleeve to give
the illusion of a die-cut with the
record inside
OUTSIDE PAN-
History
Dick Muse
Donna Groom
Nick Pociask
Jimmy Beaumont
This brief history was copied
and taken inpart and by permission
from the 40th Anniversary Edition CD
insert written by Ed Salamon
The Skyliners
Phone: 724.348.0728
[email protected]
The rest of the album was comprised of standards including “Zing Went The Strings of My Heart”, “If I Loved You”,
and two songs led by Janet, “When I Fall In Love” and “I
Can Dream Can’t I”. Two other standards from the album,
“Pennies From Heaven”(inspired by The Clovers version)
B/W “I’ll be Seeing You” would be chosen for the group’s
fifth single. It was the Rock and Roll LP to break into the
Top 50 Album chart.
In the interim, “Lonely Way” B/W “It Happened Today”
and “How Much” B/W “Lorraine From Spain” were released. Their sixth and final Calico single was “Believe Me”
B/W “Happy Time”. The remaining three Calico masters,
“Stardust”, “Footsteps”, and “Blossoms To The Snow” were
released years later on a compilation album.
Joe Rock remembered that the group was so well prepared for their recording sessions that there wasn’t much
variation to their studio performances. The five outtakes
preserved in their “40th Anniversary Edition CD” from their
Calico sessions provide fans with a unique insight into the
creative process.
Since their original release, most of the Calico masters
have been kept available through Art Laboe and Paul Politi
of Original Sound Records in Hollywood. Through their
efforts this music has appeared in many motion pictures
including “Leathl Weapon II”, “LaBamba”, “American Graffiti”, and more than a dozen others. These recordings also
continually appear in TV shows and commercials.
In 1961, The Skyliners moved to the larger Colpix label,
the recording division of Columbia Pictures, and continued
their practice of recording standard established songs like,
“Close Your Eyes”, “The Door Is Still Open” (Both written
by “The King Of The Stool”, Chuck Willis). These two
songs were backed with original material written by Joe
Rock and Jimmy Beaumont for Janet.
The Skyliners recorded “Comes Love”(written by
Pittsburgh singer/songwriter Johnny Jack a close friend of
ecutive) and Joe(an insurance salesman) still managed
by Joe Rock, re-formed The Skyliners, but refused to be
an oldies act. Although they performed their original
hits, they continued to explore new material in The
Skyliner style.
In 1974 their Capitol recording of “Where Have
They Gone” became a Number 1 hit on the Pittsburgh
Top 10 radio. Unbelievably, it only reached the lower
strata of the national charts. Legendary Doc Pomus
co-wrote that tune, which was backed by a song written
by the equally impressive team of Barry Mann and Gerry
Goffin.
“Where The Action Is” veteran, Steve Alaimo,
produced the the group’s 1976 release “The Day The
Clown Cried”, a great example of how The Skyliners
continued to adapt their style to current music.
retired permanently from The Skyliners. On February
21st, 1980, tragedy struck the group. Janet was found
in her car, dead of carbon monoxide poisoning. Jimmy
and Joe kept the group going over the years with a
current lineup of Nick Pociask, Bass, Baritone and
2nd Tenor, Dick Muse, First Tenor and the incredibly
talented and beautiful Donna Groom and of course,
Jimmy Beaumont.
In recent years, The Skyliners accomplished a
practically impossible feat by creating not one, but
two Christmas standards. The groups version of the
Beaumont/Rock compositions “You’re My Christmas
Present” and “Another Lonely New Year’s Eve” are not
only heard across America each holiday season, but
have been included on a number of holiday compact
disc collections.
I’ve been fortunate to be a part of those forty years.
As a pre-teen Rock and Roll fan from the South Hills
of Pittsburgh I considered the The Skyliners “local he-
the group) for the local Viscount Label. It was backed
by “Tell Me”, a song that Jimmy liked so much he also
released it as a solo artist on Bang Records. Both sides
received a lot of airplay in the Pittsburgh area and
“Comes Love” became a collector’s favorite. “Tell Me”,
which Rock/Beaumont also wrote, was Jimmy’s mother’s
favorite Skyliner record. By 1963 the group had signed
with Atco Records which released their version of the
standard “Since I Fell For You”. Although Lenny Welch
was to have the national hit with his version that year,
the flip side of The Skyliners record, “I’d Die”, was
re-discovered in the mid-70’s by 13-Q Radio deejay,
Don Bombard (Now known as Bob Shannon on WCBS
ÐFM in New York) and has become one of their most
requested releases.
By the early sixties, the group was growing tired of
the road and decided to take a hiatus from the business.
Jummy Beaumont continued to record and perform as
a single act. Joe Rock continued to write songs, notably
with Otis Redding(“Dreams To Remember”) and managed other artists including, the Jaggerz(“The Rapper”).
In 1965, Jack Taylor, with Joe Rock’s permission,
fronted a Skyliner group which recorded “The Loser” on
Jubilee Records. This soulful ballad, written by Taylor
and Rock, became a much played slow dance at Pittsburgh area record hops and charted Top 40 nationally
both Pop and R&B.
In the late sixties, interest in the roots of Rock
and Roll began to become evident. Promoter Richard
Nader was selling out Madison Square Garden with his
Rock and Roll Revival Shows. “Grease” became a hit
Broadway show, and the first oldies radio stations were
established. (Ironically, in the ‘90’s, “Since I Don’t Have
You” was added to the hit Broadway revival of “Grease”
as the big ballad)
Jimmy, Janet(a housewife), Wally(a Clairol Corp ex-
It is obvious that lead singer, Jimmy Beaumont, long
ago achieved the hope that he once expressed for The
Skyliners to be remembered as one of the best harmony
groups of all time. The Skyliners created a new style of
music by combining the streetwise harmonies of rhythm
and blues groups like the The Moonglows and The
Flamingos with the most sophisticated modern harmony
style of The Four Freshman and The Hi Los. Just as
important a factor in their longevity was the business
partnership between lead vocalist Jimmy Beaumont and
aptly named manager, Joe Rock, that kept the act commercially viable for over four decades. Except for Elvis
manager, Colonel Tom Parker, and The Beatles Manager,
Brian Epstein, there is perhaps no other manager whose
name is more associated with a group.
In 1958 , Jimmy, Wally Lester and Jack Taylor-who
had been singing with Joe Rock’s group, The Cresents
- combined with Joe Versharen and Janet Vogel from The
ElRios, another vocal group from Pittsburgh’s South Hills.
Joe Rock, then named them for jazz orchestra leader
Charlie Barnett’s theme song “Skyliner”.
The Skyliners could have no better advocate than Joe
Rock, an ambitious youth not much older than themselves, who was an industry insider with contacts gained
from working as a promotion man for a local record
distributor.
The song that would inspire their success was
inspired when a secretary at a radio station that Joe was
promoting, said that she didn’t want to date him anymore. While driving a few nights later, Joe conceived the
words to the song and later Jimmy Beaumont provided
the melody. Today, “Since I Don’t Have You” is regarded
as the quintessential fifties ballad from standard pop.
The recording itself was a radical departure from
teenage Rock and Roll. True to the groups vision of
combining two different musical styles, The Skyliners’
blue eyed soul delivery is balanced by the lush string
filled arrangement by Pittsburgher Lenny Martin. The
same concept of introducing full orchestra arrangement
to Rock and Roll would later prove successful for the
Drifters(“There Goes My Baby”), The Duprees (“My Own
True Love”) and Phil Spector’s “wall of sound” productions.
Legend has it that Janet ad libbed the song’s memorable ending in high C (after repeating thirteen “you’s”)
as a joke during rehersals. The group liked it so much
they made it a permanent part of their arrangement.
More than a dozen labels rejected the song before it was
released by a local Pittsburgh label, Calico Records.
Credit for “breaking” “Since I Don’t Have You” goes
to deejay “Art Pallan of Pittsburgh’s leading pop station
KDKA, but the other Pittsburgh stations were not far
behind. Dick Clark was an early believer in the group and
featured them on American Bandstand on Friday, February 13, 1959. By March of 1959, “Since I Don’t Have You”
had spread from Pittsburgh to the national pop charts.
The soulful delivery was appreciated even more by R&B
radio resulting in greater success in the rhythm and blues
Cashbox Magazine. It was the first single by a Caucasian
group to hit #1 on the Cashbox R&B charts.
Alan Freed invited The Skyliners to New York to appear on his 1959 Easter stage show with Jackie Wilson,
Fats Domino, and Bobby Darin. They also made 8 appearances at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Dick Clark took
them on the road with his “Caravan of Stars” tour and
featured them on Bandstand and his Saturday night television show numerous times.
In 1960, Calico released its first album, “The Skyliners”, containing twelve songs, including both sides of the
group’s first two self-penned singles, ‘Since I Don’t Have
You”, B/W “One Night, One Night”, and “This I Swear,
B/W “Tomorrow” as well as another original, “Tired of
Me”. The rest of the album was comprised of standards
including “Zing Went The Strings of My Heart”, “If I Loved
You”, and two songs led by Janet, “When I Fall In Love”
and “I Can Dream Can’t I”. Two other standards from the
album, “Pennies From Heaven”(inspired by The Clovers
version) B/W “I’ll be Seeing You” would be chosen for the
group’s fifth single. It was the Rock and Roll LP to break
into the Top 50 Album chart.
In the interim, “Lonely Way” B/W “It Happened Today” and “How Much” B/W “Lorraine From Spain” were
released. Their sixth and final Calico single was “Believe
Me” B/W “Happy Time”. The remaining three Calico
masters, “Stardust”, “Footsteps”, and “Blossoms To The
Snow” were released years later on a compilation album.
Joe Rock remembered that the group was so well prepared for their recording sessions that there wasn’t much
variation to their studio performances. The five outtakes
preserved in their “40th Anniversary Edition CD” from
their Calico sessions provide fans with a unique insight
into the creative process.
Since their original release, most of the Calico masters
have been kept available through Art Laboe and Paul
Politi of Original Sound Records in Hollywood. Through
their efforts this music has appeared in many motion
pictures including “Leathl Weapon II”, “LaBamba”,
“American Graffiti”, and more than a dozen others.
These recordings also continually appear in TV shows and
commercials.
In 1961, The Skyliners moved to the larger Colpix
label, the recording division of Columbia Pictures, and
continued their practice of recording standard established songs like, “Close Your Eyes”, “The Door Is Still
Open” (Both written by “The King Of The Stool”, Chuck
Willis). These two songs were backed with original material written by Joe Rock and Jimmy Beaumont for Janet.
The Skyliners recorded “Comes Love”(written by
roes”. In 1961 , at the age of thirteen, I snuck backstage
during KQV appreciation day at Westview Park to meet
Jimmy Beaumont and he treated me as an equal. Later
when I had my own group, I met Joe Rock who made
sure we made a safe exit from a particularly rough dance
appearance. When I produced my first radio special
“The Pittsburgh People” for KDKA in 1970, I got to
know the rest of The Skyliners, Wally, Joe and Janet.
In 1993, of was quite an honor to join The Skyliners in
Nashville as they received an ASCAP Award for five million plays of “Since I Don’t Have You”.
And now, I join with their thousands of fans to
congratulate Jimmy Beaumont and The Skyliners and
Joe Rock on 40 years of still creating music that make
history.
INSIDE PANELS
OUTSIDE PANELS
Far left panel, which is actually the back panel has the Skyliner’s pictures, their names and the
call to action information. The “History” of the group brgins on this side and continues to the
insice panels.
INSIDE PANELS
The far right panel is where the CD or DVD slides into it’s sleeve (like any CD mailer)
#18
20” x 5” CD MAILER
See Skyliners Marketing Package Proposal for Pricing & Specs
BACK
FOLD IN PANEL
Donna Groom began singing at 18
months and learned to play the piano
at 2 and a half. She also learned to
play the pipe organ and played regularly for service at 9 years old. Her
formal training was with concert pianists in Dayton Ohio and Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania. These studies took her
through many years of performances
and competitions, some of which she
was a first place winner. One of her
accomplishments was performing
the Grieg Piano Concerto with the
symphony orchestra at 15.
After attending Duquesne University
on scholarship, she joined “Jimmy
Beaumont and The Skyliners” as the
female lead vocalist. The Pittsburgh
based group is best known for their
1959 hit single, “Since I Don’t Have
You”. Their performances have taken
them all over the country in most major music halls including Radio City
and Madison Square Gardens in New
York City, Symphony Hall in Boston,
Academy of Music in Philadelphia,
Westbury Music Fair in Long Island,
and The Greek Theater in Los Angeles.
Donna and Skyliners’ drummer Mark
Groom currently work as a self-contained act that has been playing better nightspots across the country. In
an age of computer generated music,
Donna and Mark play everything live.
FRONT
Dick Muse joined “The Skyliners”
in 1999 after the untimely death of
David Proch. He sings a mean second tenor for group. Dick has been
involved in music since 1956 when
he was a member of “The Condors”
musical group in McKeesport, PA.
In 1957 he formed “The Laurels”
singing group while he was attending West Liberty State College in
Pennsylvania where he majored in
English and subsequently received
his B.A. in 1960. That same year,
the “Laurels” recorded their first
recording, “Working Man” at World
Records. The “Laurels” disbanded
after graduation. Dick went on to a
teaching career.
In 1978 Dick received a M.A. degree
in English from California State College at California, Pennsylvania.
In 1988, Dick became a member of
the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania group,
“The Memories”. In 1990, Dick he
moved on to the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania group, “The DeVilles”. In
1992, he resurrected “The Laurels”.
The group produced several CD’s
including:
The Test of Time, 1993
Our Town Has A Voice, 1995
R & B Odyssey, 1997
Keeping Tradition, 1998.
The Skyliners
Phone: 724.348.0728
[email protected]
If you were to put together the harmonies of the best ‘50s R&B groups
you would have an unbelievably perfect blend of voices emanating
from five white Pittsburgh teenagers – Jimmy Beaumont and the Skyliners. From their first appearance on American Bandstand in 1959
to their most recent performances on the PBS Doo Wop Specials,
the Skyliners have entertained and thrilled audiences all over North
America for over 50 years. Their hit gold record, “Since I Don’t Have
You” has been featured in such popular motion pictures as, “American Graffiti”, “American Hot Wax”, “Lethal Weapon 2”, “LaBamba”,
and more than a dozen others. This is their story...
I
t is obvious that lead singer, Jimmy Beaumont, long
ago achieved the hope that he once expressed for The Skyliners to be remembered as one of the best harmony groups of all time. The Skyliners created a new style of music by
combining the streetwise harmonies of rhythm and blues groups like the
The Moonglows and The Flamingos with the most sophisticated modern
harmony style of The Four Freshman and The Hi Los. Just as important a
factor in their longevity was the business partnership between lead vocalist Jimmy Beaumont and aptly named manager, Joe Rock, that kept the
act commercially viable for over four decades. Except for Elvis manager,
Colonel Tom Parker, and The Beatles Manager, Brian Epstein, there is
perhaps no other manager whose name is more associated with a group.
In 1958 , Jimmy, Wally Lester and Jack Taylor-who had been singing with Joe Rock’s group, The Cresents - combined with Joe Versharen
and Janet Vogel from The ElRios, another vocal group from Pittsburgh’s
South Hills. Joe Rock, then named them for jazz orchestra leader Charlie
Barnett’s theme song “Skyliner”.
The Skyliners could have no better advocate than Joe Rock, an
ambitious youth not much older than themselves, who was an industry
insider with contacts gained from working as a promotion man for a local
record distributor.
The song that would inspire their success was inspired when a secretary at a radio station that Joe was promoting, said that she didn’t want
to date him anymore. While driving a few nights later, Joe conceived
the words to the song and later Jimmy Beaumont provided the melody.
Today, “Since I Don’t Have You” is regarded as the quintessential fifties
ballad from standard pop.
The recording itself was a radical departure from teenage Rock
and Roll. True to the groups vision of combining two different
musical styles, The Skyliners’ blue eyed soul delivery is balanced
by the lush string filled arrangement by Pittsburgher Lenny Martin.
The same concept of introducing full orchestra arrangement to
Rock and Roll would later prove successful for the Drifters(“There
Goes My Baby”), The Duprees (“My Own True Love”) and Phil
Spector’s “wall of sound” productions.
Legend has it that Janet ad libbed the song’s memorable
ending in high C (after repeating thirteen “you’s”) as a joke during
rehersals. The group liked it so much they made it a permanent part
of their arrangement. More than a dozen labels rejected the song
before it was released by a local Pittsburgh label, Calico Records.
Credit for “breaking” “Since I Don’t Have You” goes to deejay
“Art Pallan of Pittsburgh’s leading pop station KDKA, but the other
Pittsburgh stations were not far behind. Dick Clark was an early
believer in the group and featured them on American Bandstand on
Friday, February 13, 1959. By March of 1959, “Since I Don’t Have
You” had spread from Pittsburgh to the national pop charts. The
soulful delivery was appreciated even more by R&B radio resulting in
greater success in the rhythm and blues Cashbox Magazine. It was
the first single by a Caucasian group to hit #1 on the Cashbox R&B
charts.
Alan Freed invited The Skyliners to New York to appear on
his 1959 Easter stage show with Jackie Wilson, Fats Domino, and
Bobby Darin. They also made 8 appearances at the Apollo Theatre
in Harlem. Dick Clark took them on the road with his “Caravan of
Stars” tour and featured them on Bandstand and his Saturday night
television show numerous times.
In 1960, Calico released its first album, “The Skyliners”,
containing twelve songs, including both sides of the group’s first
two self-penned singles, ‘Since I Don’t Have You”, B/W “One Night,
One Night”, and “This I Swear, B/W “Tomorrow” as well as another
original, “Tired of Me”. The rest of the album was comprised of
standards including “Zing Went The Strings of My Heart”, “If I Loved
You”, and two songs led by Janet, “When I Fall In Love” and “I Can
Dream Can’t I”. Two other standards from the album, “Pennies
From Heaven”(inspired by The Clovers version) B/W “I’ll be Seeing
You” would be chosen for the group’s fifth single. It was the Rock
and Roll LP to break into the Top 50 Album chart.
“How Much” B/W “Lorraine From Spain” were released. Their sixth
and final Calico single was “Believe Me” B/W “Happy Time”. The remaining three Calico masters, “Stardust”, “Footsteps”, and “Blossoms
To The Snow” were released years later on a compilation album.
Joe Rock remembered that the group was so well prepared
for their recording sessions that there wasn’t much variation to their
studio performances. The five outtakes preserved in their “40th
Anniversary Edition CD” from their Calico sessions provide fans with
a unique insight into the creative process.
appeared in many motion pictures including “Leathl Weapon II”, “LaBamba”, “American Graffiti”, and more than a dozen others. These
recordings also continually appear in TV shows and commercials.
In 1961, The Skyliners moved to the larger Colpix label, the
recording division of Columbia Pictures, and continued their practice
of recording standard established songs like, “Close Your Eyes”, “The
Door Is Still Open” (Both written by “The King Of The Stool”, Chuck
Willis). These two songs were backed with original material written
by Joe Rock and Jimmy Beaumont for Janet.
The Skyliners recorded “Comes Love”(written by Pittsburgh
singer/songwriter Johnny Jack a close friend of the group) for the
local Viscount Label. It was backed by “Tell Me”, a song that Jimmy
liked so much he also released it as a solo artist on Bang Records.
Both sides received a lot of airplay in the Pittsburgh area and “Comes
Love” became a collector’s favorite. “Tell Me”, which Rock/Beau-
mont also wrote, was Jimmy’s mother’s favorite Skyliner record.
By 1963 the group had signed with Atco Records which released
their version of the standard “Since I Fell For You”. Although
Lenny Welch was to have the national hit with his version that
year, the flip side of The Skyliners record, “I’d Die”, was re-discovered in the mid-70’s by 13-Q Radio deejay, Don Bombard
(Now known as Bob Shannon on WCBS ÐFM in New York) and
has become one of their most requested releases.
By the early sixties, the group was growing tired of the
road and decided to take a hiatus from the business. Jummy
Beaumont continued to record and perform as a single act.
Joe Rock continued to write songs, notably with Otis
Redding(“Dreams To Remember”) and managed
other artists including, the Jaggerz(“The
Rapper”).
In 1965, Jack Taylor, with
Joe Rock’s permission, fronted a Skyliner group which
recorded “The Loser” on
Jubilee Records. This
soulful ballad, written
by Taylor and Rock,
became a much played
slow dance at Pittsburgh
area record hops and
charted Top 40 nationally
both Pop and R&B.
In the late sixties,
interest in the roots of Rock
and Roll began to become evident.
Promoter Richard Nader was selling out
Madison Square Garden with his Rock and
Roll Revival Shows. “Grease” became a hit Broadway
show, and the first oldies radio stations were established. (Ironically, in the ‘90’s, “Since I Don’t Have You” was added to the hit
Broadway revival of “Grease” as the big ballad)
Jimmy, Janet(a housewife), Wally(a Clairol Corp executive)
and Joe(an insurance salesman) still managed by Joe Rock, reformed The Skyliners, but refused to be an oldies act. Although
they performed their original hits, they continued to explore new
material in The Skyliner style.
In 1974 their Capitol recording of “Where Have They
Gone” became a Number 1 hit on the Pittsburgh Top 10 radio.
Unbelievably, it only reached the lower strata of the national
charts. Legendary Doc Pomus co-wrote that tune, which was
backed by a song written by the equally impressive team of Barry
Mann and Gerry Goffin.
“Where The Action Is” veteran, Steve Alaimo, produced
the the group’s 1976 release “The Day The Clown Cried”, a great
example of how The Skyliners continued to adapt their style to
current music.
retired permanently from The Skyliners. On February 21st,
1980, tragedy struck the group. Janet was found in her car, dead
of carbon monoxide poisoning. Jimmy and Joe kept the group
going over the years with a current lineup of Nick Pociask, Bass,
Baritone and 2nd Tenor, Dick Muse, First Tenor and the
incredibly talented and beautiful Donna Groom
and of course, Jimmy Beaumont.
In recent years, The Skyliners
accomplished a practically impossible feat by creating not one,
but two Christmas standards. The groups version
of the Beaumont/Rock
compositions “You’re
My Christmas Present”
and “Another Lonely
New Year’s Eve” are not
only heard across America each holiday season,
but have been included on
a number of holiday compact
disc collections.
I’ve been fortunate to be a
part of those forty years. As a pre-teen
Rock and Roll fan from the South Hills of
Pittsburgh I considered the The Skyliners “local heroes”.
In 1961 , at the age of thirteen, I snuck backstage during KQV appreciation day at Westview Park to meet Jimmy Beaumont and he
treated me as an equal. Later when I had my own group, I met
Joe Rock who made sure we made a safe exit from a particularly
rough dance appearance. When I produced my first radio special
“The Pittsburgh People” for KDKA in 1970, I got to know the
rest of The Skyliners, Wally, Joe and Janet. In 1993, of was quite
an honor to join The Skyliners in Nashville as they received an
ASCAP Award for five million plays of “Since I Don’t Have You”.
And now, I join with their thousands of fans to congratulate Jimmy Beaumont and The Skyliners and Joe Rock on 50 years
of still creating music that make history.
INSIDE PANELS
OUTSIDE PANELS
Extra panel folds in to create an 8 1/2 x 11 brichure. The back panel lends itself to putting a
condensed bio of each of the Skyliners.
INSIDE PANELS
Text and visuals can be made larger because of the extra panel.
This was a “comp layout” that was presented with others but not printed. They opted to go with
the the 9 x 12 folder concept
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