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Merchant was born on February 10, 1940, at 2:35 a.m. in Morrisania, Bronx, New York due to Harlem Hospital not having enough room at that time. [5]In September 1954, while attending Edward W. Stitt Junior High School, he met Sherman Garnes and formed The Earth Angels. then they formed The Coupe De Villes and Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni joined the group, Frankie Lymon watched the show ...
The members at that time were Jimmy Merchant, Herman Santiago, Eric Ward, and Pearl McKinnon. [3] By 1983, Ward had been replaced by Derek Ventura, [3] and in 1984 Phil Garrito took over for Ventura. Roz Morehead replaced McKinnon, and Marilyn Byers moved into Morehead's lead spot. Later in the 1980s the group had settled on a new lead, Jimmy ...
Santiago was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Manhattan, New York.In the early 1950s Santiago and friends, 2nd tenor Jimmy Merchant, fellow Puerto Rican Joe Negroni a baritone, and bassman Sherman Garnes, would meet in front of Santiago's apartment stoop (building stairs) and sing songs to the beat of the Doo-Wop genre. [2]
The song was originally written by Jimmy Merchant with the help of his older songwriter friend Robert Spencer (later finalized by Goldner). According to Merchant, it is notably the first protest song ever released by the Teenagers.
In the early 1950s, Negroni, Santiago, and two other friends Jimmy Merchant and Sherman Garnes would get together in front of Santiago's stoops (building stairs) and sing songs to the beat of Doo-Wops. [1] Negroni, who had a baritone voice, and his friends called themselves the "Ermines" with Santiago as lead singer.
Although early single releases of "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" credit Frankie Lymon, Herman Santiago, and Jimmy Merchant as co-writers, later releases and cover versions were attributed to Lymon and George Goldner. When Goldner sold his music companies to Morris Levy in 1959, Levy's name began appearing as co-writer of "Why Do Fools Fall in Love ...
Where is Joe Merchant? is a novel by singer Jimmy Buffett, published in 1992. The book, a New York Times Best Seller , revolves around Frank Bama and his ex-girlfriend, hemorrhoid -ointment heiress Trevor Kane.
Sherman Marlow Garnes (June 8, 1940 – February 26, 1977) was an American singer and member of the doo-wop group, The Teenagers.Garnes attended Edward W. Stitt Junior High School, where he met Jimmy Merchant. [3]