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PAUL DINO
“Ginnie Bell”
(PAUL DINO)
Promo 2180
No. 38 Apri1 10, 1961
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Dino had begun singing in his high school glee club, but it was a barber he was going to be. That’s what
he told himself. Born on March 2, 1939, in Philadelphia, Paul had learned the ins and outs of making
sounds on various instruments, like the sax, piano, drums and that party pleaser, the accordion. But,
he was gonna be a hair cutter. While actually cutting the stuff in barber school, Paul decided a re-
evaluation of his life’s direction was in order. Not long after he appeared ot the door of Bill Lasly’s
Promo Record label. He had concocted this teen tune with something of a “Bo Diddley beat” about a
chick named Ginnie Bell. After opening his mouth and making teen idol like sounds, Lasly said,
“Enough, I want to record you.” “Ginnie Bell” sold a respectible amount of records but nothing
thereafter managed to even stir a faint thump thump in a young girls heart. A darkish less famed reality
was rapidly becoming apparent. Yes, Pul was not going to be teenage idol.