Dovells biography
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The Dovells originally formed in Philadelphia in 1957 as The Brooktones, taking their name from Overbrook High School, where each of the original members, Jerry Gross (aka Jerry Summers), lead and first tenor, Len Borisoff (aka Len Barry), lead and tenor, Mike Freda (aka Mike Dennis), second tenor, Arnie Silver (aka Arnie Satin), baritone, Jim Mealey, bass, and part-timer Mark Gordesky (aka Mark Stevens), tenor, attended classes.
Dovells biography
They began singing at local school functions and occasionally at John Madara's record store located at 60th and Market Streets in Philly. (Madara had co-written "At the Hop" for Danny And The Juniors). The Brooktones performed locally for the next few years and recorded a song called "No, No, No", which gained some recognition in Philadelphia, but the group had little success outside the immediate area and eventually disbanded.
Summers and Dennis left to form a new group called The Gems with Mark Stevens and Alan Horowitz in the Summer