Original manager of Chicago-based group" The Buckinghams", who charted in B… Read Full Bio ↴Original manager of Chicago-based group" The Buckinghams", who charted in Billboard's Hot 100 in February 1967 with "Kind of a Drag"... Carl was born (DOB: 10/16/1940) in Chicago in an area called "Little Italy".. He appeared as a young boy on local television on Morris B. Sach's Amateur Hour singing and playing the accordion.. He appeared on an interview show Ernie Simon's "Curbstone Cut-up".. He sang his hit record "Were Wolf" on disc-jockey Jim Lounsberry's TV show in Chicago. He went on to promote local bands with his weekly dances at local ballrooms including the Aragon, Madura's Danceland & The Holiday Ballroom with owner and collaborator Dan Belloc of big band fame..(Billy May Orchestra). He recorded and produced over 200 records with various recording artists..He fronted a local group -The Gemtones whose saxophone player, Harry Manfredini, became a big-time movie musical score arranger for the "Friday the 13th" movies. He then turned to managing and promoting local teen bands(garage-bands in the early 60s). His most famous clients were "The Buckinghams" ("Kind of a Drag") and the all-girl group "The Daughters of Eve"(Help Me Boy"). He also managed "Thee Prophets" out of Wisconsin. and Mickey & Larry and the Exciters out of Boston. He managed "The Delights" in Chicago...He worked for the Willard Alexander Booking Agency with super Celebrity agent Herb Gronauer whose now promoting celebrities in Palm Springs, California..He worked for the CASK Attractions agency who were big in the nightclub circuit.. He was on hand at the historic Chess studios in Chicago, Illinois to record "Kind of a Drag" with the Buckinghams.. co-producer Dan Belloc and arranger Frank Tesinsky added horns to the opening riffs of the song (launching the Chicago horn sound later employed by the groups Chicago, & Blood, Sweat and Tears, & Earth, Wind & Fire...(The engineer @ Chess was the late great Ron Malo).....Jimmy Holvay of the local Chicago group,"The Mob", was the composer of "Kind of a Drag". Carl Bonafede still lives and works in the great city of Chicago in the Lincoln Park area..close to the lakefront...Some kind of a Guy...simply amazing..

The Good Old Days
Carl Bonafede Lyrics

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83 Bringing it Back to the old days (ya) Bring it back…
Anti-Anti Watching TV talk shows is a lot of fun. I like…
Big A 알잖아 너도 이런 vibe 달려, 달려 앞만 보고 ride yeah 뒤돌아보지 마…
Buck Owens The good old days are here again, My baby's coming home She'…
Buck Owens & Susan Raye We're packin' up our clothes and we're goin' We're headin' o…
Cardiac I've been here before And I've walked this floor I do alrigh…
Chris Sebastian Hold it there i have something to say, Pass me the…
Clint Black He still likes the bar room's dim-lit, smoky atmosphere The …
Creed Fisher I can′t drink away these memories Of a time when things…

Danny & Dusty Every time I go out for a bottle of wine Someone's…
Eels I know I'm not too much of a bargain And you…
Embracing Hey, you don't go away I'm here to tell you the…
Gugun Power Trio Sharing life together each and everyday Though we've felt th…
Jean-Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman Told deno I needed a bop Back on my shit and…
Jeannie Seely Feat. The Whites Got nothin to do I've got nowhere to go I'm like a…
John Paul White THERE'S SOMETHING GOING DOWN IN THIS SIMPLE PLACE I GREW UP…
Lost & Hatcha I'm still in bed but it feels like work Unanswered texts…
Moonlight Breakfast I miss the good old days No stress, just fun, and…
Mr. Butterfly いつの間にかこんなふうに夜空に溜め息浮かべてるあの娘の笑顔がふっと目を閉じるたびに溢れてる押さえきれずダ…
My Extraordinary I know a lot has changed since then But it still…
Reel Big Fish [Verse 1] You say you don't know what you’re gonna do Withou…
Rick Astley I believe what I was told I listen to the stereo…
Ron Pope & The Mayries When the babies are grown up and they move so…
SH-1 Walking in the sunshine キラキラ good day 悩むときもあるけれど今よりも好きになる私ら…
The Good Old Days - Eels I know I'm not too much of a bargain And you…
The Libertines If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone Still then the…
The Lodger All those days Wasting time We used to spend Away from ea…

To Kill a King The good old days You find your feet but you're acting…

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