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After leaving Jay and the Americans, Vance formed Kenny Vance and the Planotones in 1992. The band currently includes Johnny Gale, Kurt "Frenchy" Yahjian, Jimmy Bense, Chip Degaard and Tony Gallino as his band and they began touring. The group plays doo wop songs of the 1950s and 1960s and their original material is strongly influenced by it. [2]
Looking for an Echo" is a doo-wop song written by Richard Reicheg. There have been several popular versions of the song recorded, including: The original version by Kenny Vance, first released as an Atlantic records single in 1975. This version also appeared on Vance's album Vance 32.
Kenny Vance (born Kenneth Rosenberg, December 9, 1943) [1] is an American singer, songwriter, and music producer who was a founding member of Jay and the Americans.His career spans from the 1950s to today, with projects ranging from starting doo-wop groups to music supervising to creating solo albums.
The latter song has been sampled over the years by various Hip hop artists. While the album was a modest hit, the group gained public awareness via an appearance, along with Kenny Vance of Jay and the Americans, as "Professor La Plano and the Planotones" in the 1978 film American Hot Wax.
His songs have been recorded and performed by many top artists, [3] including The Persuasions, Maria Muldaur, Gary Wright, and Jay and the Americans. His song "Everybody's a Masterpiece" was recorded by Three Dog Night. Reicheg's "Looking for an Echo" was recorded by Kenny Vance, [4] The Persuasions (on their album Chirpin'), and by others.
He was a member of The John Entwistle Band, replacing Mark Hitt. [1] He was also in Kenny Vance and the Planotones, and was in Alan Parsons' touring band from 2001 to 2009. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Godfrey was in The Association in 2012, and was a guitarist for many 1960s summer tours, backing The Turtles , The Buckinghams , The Grass Roots , Mark Lindsay ...
Joe "Bean" Esposito (born May 5, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter whose career spans from the 1970s to the present day. Esposito is known for creating songs that have appeared in film soundtracks, such as those of American Hot Wax, Staying Alive, Scarface, The Karate Kid, and Coming to America.
In addition to his stints in Superstar, Yaghjian also frequently played the Baker and one of Joseph's brothers in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, once at Playhouse in the Park in Philadelphia [8] and twice at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, [9] [10] and appeared in the short-lived Off-Off-Broadway musical Duel in 1979, [11] also appearing on its studio cast album ...