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With vocals and harmonies laid out in plain sight and success or failure hanging on every note, a weak voice has nowhere to hide in a doo-wop song where there are few or no musical instruments to mask minor imperfections or carry the tune. Johnny Maestro reveled in the demands the vocal style made and turned his passion and dedication into a lifelong odyssey. His first hit, “16 Candles” (recorded with The Crests) remains one of the biggest doo-wop songs ever. Peaking at #2 on the pop charts in 1958, the group went on to release five Top 30 hits in just three years. Soon after, he began a solo career that earned him three more hits. In 1968, several years after the height of the doo-wop phenomenon and a full decade after “16 Candles,” Maestro impossibly scored another hit, this time with his new group, Brooklyn Bridge. Singing “The Worst That Could Happen,” written by Jimmy Webb, Maestro found himself at #3 on the pop charts and singing to millions on The Ed Sullivan Show. In the years that followed, the group fared well again with “Blessed Is The Rain” and the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
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