The New Felpin's Pond: Web Surf # 2-Reparata and The Delrons to Coco Rocha to Eero Saarinan

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Web Surf # 2-Reparata and The Delrons to Coco Rocha to Eero Saarinan

Reparata and the Delrons-Mid 1960's lineup Lorraine, Reparata, and Nanette.

I discovered the obscure New York girl group, Reparata and the Delrons whilst looking up backing musicians. The group's lead singer, Reparata (her real name was Mary Aiese) took her stage name from a nun who was one of her teachers. Mary Aiese left the group in 1970 to be a teacher herself. The tall girl, Lorraine Mazolla , later sang with Barry Manilow's backing group, Lady Flash. I don't know anything about Nanette the third girl. Some other chicks sang with the group as well.

This vocal trio never had an American Top 40 hit, yet somehow continued to make records between 1964 and 1972. They only made two studio albums. One of the group's claim to fame is that they were among they were among the backing singers on the 1969 Rolling Stones hit, "Honky Tonk Women". They also were one of the opening acts on the Stones 1965 Tour of North America.

Reparata and the Delrons did have a Top 20 hit in the UK with a song called "Captain of Your Ship". The video of "Captain of Your Ship" above is from a German TV-show. It is the only archival television footage of them.

The girls performing" I'm Nobody's Baby Now" -a great song written by Jeff Barry.

TWA Terminal, JFK Airport, 1962

Reparata and The Delrons -Look In My Diary

The song below (Look in My Diary) was actually not released till the 1997. Hard to believe, since it sounds like a hit to me. It's my favorite song right now. It was recorded around 1966 but never used on any of their original singles or albums.

The video above is actually a unofficial mash-up video compiled by Mr. Trubec. The first bit is from a Longchamp commercial featuring super model Coco Rocha. She is a Canadian born model of Irish-Welsh and Russian descent. I don't now where the other bits with the oriental girls and the redheads are taken from.

The original 2013 Longchamp commercial (above) featured the Bee Gees song-"You Should Be Dancing". The other model featured is another Canadian Liisa Winkler. Yes that's two"i"s.

The airport terminal where the video was filmed is unmistakably the former TWA terminal building at JFK International in NYC. Surprisingly, Eero Saarinan's classic space age terminal is now a hotel.