The Chants
A Doo-Wop singing group from the 1960's. Back then, we captured some of their performances in a garage (no kidding!) tape. The remastered songs are here for y
Zoom Zoom
Unknown Lead Singer with The Chants. Could only recover about a minute of this performance. The stereo image created from the mono tape with a Voxengo VST plugin in a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).
For Your Love For Your Love
Guest lead singer Bobby Colon (I think) sings "For Your Love" with The Chants. Another really damaged tape; this one minute or so was the only salvagable part.
Late At Night Late At Night
Gary's back singing "Late at Night" with the Chants. Jim plays the guitar and uses his newly-learned G augmented chord in place of a G7 chord.
Lonely Way Live Lonely Way Live
Another "live" performance with fans in the audience. The guys really liked to sing this one also. The main guitar is on the original tape, played by Jim. (who does the "Alright" at the end).
Never Never Never Never Never Never
Gary and The Chants kidding around like they were in concert with teenage fans in the audience. But they didn't kid about the performance, which I think is great. Jim does a barely-passable Murray The K impression at the end.
Five teenage guys from Queens, New York got together in the early 1960's and formed The Chants. Singing Doo-Wop, they wowed the local girls and "fought it out" in many battle of the groups (very popular back then in Queens). Their friend, Jim, played guitar accompaniment and also recorded some of their performances in his garage with a vintage (even then) mono tape recorder and a single microphone. Recently, Jim rediscovered those tapes. Although they were in pretty tough shape, today's technology allowed him to rescue fourteen of those performances. The remastered songs are presented here for you older "kids".