The Four Preps
The Four Preps met at Hollywood High School. Their first chart
single was Dreamy Eyes, just prior to Christmas of
1956.
Besides 26 Miles (Santa Catalina) in 1958, they cut a
track called More Money For You And Me, a medley of
parodies of other groups and their songs: The single -
recorded "live" - was a Top 20 success, and the concept
was later borrowed by British group The Barron Knights.
Ed Cobb also formed a faceless instrumental group called The
Piltdown Men, in partnership with arranger Lincoln Mayorga.
They made six singles for Capitol, often basing their melodies
on traditional themes such as Old McDonald Had A Farm -
which became a 1960 chart hit in England, where rumour spread that
The Piltdown Men were actually members of Frank Sinatra's session
band!
Their only Stateside hit was Brontosaurus Stomp.
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