As the story goes, after seeing an ad on TV for Imperial Margarine, Richard Barrett renamed the group the Imperials. Barrett auditioned the Chesters, loved what he heard, and immediately brought them to the attention of Goldner, who agreed they had a sound he liked, but he didn’t like the name the Chesters. Goldner had some of the most influential groups of the time-the Cleftones, the Grows, the Chantels and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. While rehearsing one day, thé Chesters were heard by Richard Barrett, formerly of the Valentines and then director for George Goldner, one of the great champions of doo-wop and owner of the labels Gone, End, Gee, and Rama. And I’ll bet you didn’t know when the guys would be harmonizing in Brooklyn, a young girl by the name of Altovese Gore, a neighbor, would listen.
After the Duponts broke up, Anthony joined the Chesters. Anthony and Clarence had known each other as toddlers when their dads worked together at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Let’s begin in 1957, when Jerome Anthony Gourdine was singing with a group called the Duponts, and Clarence Collins, Ernest Wright, Tracy Lord, and Glouster Nathaniel “Nate” Rogers formed a group called the Chesters.
It’s also a story of chemistry - that special coming together of talent which makes magic happen in show business. It not only reached our ears but our hearts. The story of Little Anthony & the Imperials is a story of the early days of rock and roll when our music was new and breathtaking. MIKE MILLER LITTLE ANTHONY PRODUCER PROOF.
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