Baby, You're Driving Me Crazy /Help Me Pick Up The Pieces-Joey Dee & Starliters

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Baby, You're Driving Me Crazy /Help Me Pick Up The Pieces-Joey Dee & Starliters-'62-Roulette 4467 stereo
Joey Dee and The Starliters (also credited as Joey Dee and the Starlighters) is an American popular music group. Best known for their successful multi-million selling recording “Peppermint Twist” (1961), the group was started by Joey Dee.

With lead singer Rogers Freeman, Joey Dee and the Starliters' first single was "Lorraine," backed with "The Girl I Walk To School," in 1958, distributed by the company Little. That same year, Joey Dee recruited David Brigati for the team after meeting him during a gig at Garfield High School in New Jersey. David and Joey would subsequently share lead vocal honors for the Starliters, with Joey ultimately becoming the primary lead singer. Another early single for the group was "Face of an Angel," with David as lead vocal, released on Scepter Records; the flipside was "Shimmy Baby." An album entitled The Peppermint Twisters and credited to "Joey Dee and the Starlighters" was subsequently released by the company Scepter as well.

Various members of the Starliters, such as vocalist Freeman and drummer Don Martin, came and went during the next few years; the most famous lineup of Joey Dee and the Starliters is considered to be Joey Dee, David Brigati, Larry Vernieri (vocals), Carlton Lattimore (organ), Sam Taylor (guitar) and Willie Davis (drums). Later members of the touring group would include Eddie Brigati (David's brother), Gene Cornish, and Felix Cavaliere - three-quarters of the Young Rascals - as well as guitarist Jimmy James (later known as Jimi Hendrix), Charles Neville of the Neville Brothers and a young Joe Pesci on guitar.
The 1960s

In 1960, the Starliters were noticed by agent Don Davis while performing at a Lodi, New Jersey nightclub called Oliveri's. The group was booked at an intimate venue on 45th Street in New York City called the Peppermint Lounge for what was supposed to be a one-time weekend gig. During their initial appearance at the nightclub, actress Merle Oberon and Prince Serge Oblinski were dancing much of the night there. This being related in print the next morning by columnists Earl Wilson and Cholly Knickerbocker, it took barricades and mounted police to keep the crowds in line, which had backed to Broadway, the next night. For several months, the craze would continue at the Lounge. Celebrity visitors continued to come and included Judy Garland, John Wayne, Jackie Kennedy, Nat "King" Cole, Shirley MacLaine, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Liberace. Dee and company made such a sensation that they became the house band for the Peppermint Lounge, remaining for more than a year. Dee wrote "Peppermint Twist," along with producer Henry Glover, as a tribute to the lounge and the song scored #1 on the U.S. charts in early 1962. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[1] By this time the team had contracted with Roulette Records.
Dee in 1962

One night in 1961, a trio of pretty teenagers were waiting in line and eventually got inside the nightclub. During the break in the show, Ronnie Bennett asked Joey Dee if she and the other girls could perform with Joey on stage. Joey invited the girls on stage to sing and dance – Ronnie and Estelle Bennett and their cousin, Nedra Talley.

The Ronettes spent the rest of that night dancing and singing along with Joey Dee and the Starliters, and the reaction from the group and the crowd was so positive, that Joey Dee hired them. Every night, The Ronettes would dance and perform along with The Starliters at the Peppermint Lounge. That summer in 1962, Joey took The Ronettes on tour to Wildwood, NJ.

One day Joey turned on the radio and heard “Be My Baby” by The Ronettes. Unbeknownst to Joey, Phil Spector had already recorded the girls. Their success made Joey Dee extremely happy.