Dino and The Diplomats - I Can't Believe 1961 UT

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Dino & The Diplomats (Harlem, New York)

Personnel:
Rafael Cedano (Lead Tenor)
Richard Morgan (Tenor)
Jackie Jones (Second Tenor)
Woody Carter (Baritone)
Charles Humber (Bass)

Biography:
Vocal group from Harlem composed by Rafael Cedano (lead), Richard Morgan (1st tenor), Jackie Jones (2d tenor), Charles Humber (Bass) and Woody Carter (Baritone). These five men group whose members went to school with Frankie Lymon first called themselves the Lionels and then the Universals in 1957-58. finally, they changed for Dino & The Diplomats when they signed with Laurie Records. Laurie Records was a record label started in 1958 by brothers Robert and Gene Schwartz, and Allan I. Sussel. Sussel was a multi-millionaire whose earlier record company, Jamie Records (named after his elder daughter), had been unsuccessful.

Dino & The Diplomats recorded three songs for Laurie Records: "My Dream”, “I Can't Believe" and the unreleased "Hushabye My Love ". Their song "I Can’t Believe" was part written by Ricardo Weeks who with Melvin Anderson penned "I Wonder Why" for Dion & The Belmonts. The Singers would become a four-man group in the following year after the departure of Woody Carter and re-record a different version of "Hush-A-Bye My Love" for Vida records were they cut two singles before separating.