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RONALD “BINGO” MUNDY DIES...

30/1/2017

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​Mr Mundy was born in Pittsburgh in 1940 and along with some school pals he formed the Marcels in 1959, taking their name from a then popular hair style... the "Marcel wave". In 1961 they signed to Colpix Record and with their bizarre, doo-wop version of 'Blue Moon', complete with "bomp baba bomps" and "moon-moon-moon-moon-moon, dip-da-dip-da-dips" they saw immediate chart action. Music legend tells us that the day he heard it, New York DJ Murray the K played 'Blue Moon' 26 times in a four-hour show. In March 1961, the song knocked Elvis Presley off the top of the Billboard chart! The same year the Marcels saw more chart action with similar doo-wop versions of 'Heartaches, 'Summertime' and 'Goodbye to Love.'
However, because the Marcels were a racially mixed group, live work was hard to come by and at the end of '61 "Bingo" quit the group, eventually finding work as a bus driver. From time to time though he did join Marcel reunions on oldies tours and worked with a group called The Memories. He also sang in the Wesley Centre AME Zion Church choir.
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