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The Doughboys
12+ albums
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The Doughboys is an American rock band from Plainfield, NJ, who were active in the mid-1960s, and re-formed in 2000. They have been active ever since, and have cut three albums of newly recorded material since their reunion. What set the band apart from the competition (and there were many rock’n’roll groups in the area) was an authentic passion for the music and presentation. The band was formed in the fall of 1964 when Mike Caruso asked Richie Heyman if he wanted to get together with a couple of guys from Hubbard Junior High (the school they all attended) for a rehearsal. Caruso and Heyman clicked right away, Caruso on guitar and Heyman on drums. The others weren’t quite up to par so Caruso found two other guitarists, one of whom was Willy Kirchofer, with his big Gibson acoustic/electric – a rarity in those day. They called themselves the Ascots. A year later they merged with two members from a rival group, the Apollos. Heyman, only thirteen at the time, invited guitarist Mike Farina and drummer/singer Myke Scavone to join forces with the Ascots, convincing Scavone to step out from behind the drums and become the lead singer. The five-piece Ascots changed their name to The Doughboys in 1966 and won a recording contract with Bell Records as part of their first prize winning of a year-long battle-of-the-bands on Zacherle’s Disc-o-teen television show. They put out two singles – Rhoda Mendelbaum and Everybody Knows My Name, which received airplay on WMCA in New York
