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DONNIE & THE DREAMERS
“Count Every Star”
(Sammy Gallop, Bruno Coquatrix)
Whale 500
No. 35 June 19, 1961
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They were talented, but to be a flash-in-the-pan was their fate. Histories handmaidens have take time to
delineate that Donnie is Louis Burgio. Louie and his group were Italian-Americans from New York City.
Beyond that little had been explicated by the time that this piece was constructed (1988). It all happened
so fast…way too fast; like some shooting star, or asteroid. “Count Every Star,” their reworking of the Ray
Anthony (#4, 1950)/Dick Haynes (# 10, 1950) chartings was their first waxing, their and their mini-labels’
first record release. The Dreamers had the right to do IT; that is dream of THE big break through. Decca
Records offered the guys a contract. Louie was a talented lad, and the Dreamers, well, they had something
distinctive about them. Ah, surely eminence and opulence would follow…possibly.
Whale Records issued “My Memories of You” (#79, 1961) as their initial follow-up. Hungry to get a few
extra miles out of their departing group, Whale issued another Dreamers single, “Life is But a Dream,” as
by “Kenny & the Whalers.” Few noticed the latter and the disk is now as rare as clean air. Decca Records
rush out what would be the units last recording. “Carole” b/w “Ruby My Love” never received much
promotion. still fewer Neo-doo-Woppers even knew the record existed.