Various – Teen Expo: The Cleopatra Label

From a basement in New Jersey, Tommy Falcone remade himself into a DIY Phil Spector. From 1962 to 1970, he founded and ran Cleopatra Records, discovered and mentored young Garden State talent, wrote songs and produced wild studio effects, and quit his day job to promote it all himself. Trained as an accordionist, Falcone had a whirlwind imagination and an omnivorous approach to genre, expressed through acts like the Centuries, the Tabbys, Johnny Silvio, the Inmates, Bernadette Carroll, the Hallmarks, Vickie & the Van Dykes, the Shandillons, Eugene Viscione, the Shoestring, and more. Cleopatra became a time-capsule of every 1960s pop style imaginable-garage rock, psychedelia, surf, girl groups, soul, novelties, exotica, even a crooner-a kaleidoscope of sound in search of the ever-elusive hit record.

Media 1
1. BERNADETTE CARROLL: HEAVENLY
2. THE TABBYS: HONG KONG BABY
3. DICK THUNDER: GEE BUT I’M LONESOME
4. VICKIE & THE VAN DYKES: OUTCAST
5. THE HALLMARKS: PAPER SKY
6. THE CENTURIES: BEACH UMBRELLA WORLD
7. THE INMATES: IT’S SO VERY HARD
8. JIMMY DAVIS: MISTER WIND
9. JOHNNY SILVIO: JULIE ANNE
10. THE HALLMARKS: DISTANT RAIN
11. BERNADETTE CARROLL: WHEN WE’RE OLDER
12. THE CENTURIES: OUTER LIMITS
13. THE HALLMARKS: WE CAN MAKE IT TOGETHER
Media 2
1. THE CENTURIES: ANNIVERSARY HOP
2. THE OVATIONS: KISS ME BYE BYE
3. THE INMATES: CRYSTAL BALL
4. VICKIE & THE VAN DYKES: TRUE LOVE
5. THE REMINISCENTS: FOR YOUR LOVE
6. THE HALLMARKS: MISS JUDITH FINCH
7. BERNADETTE CARROLL: CARE A LITTLE
8. THE SHANDILLONS: SHOOP DE HOOP TWINE
9. THE INMATES: YOU TELL LIES
10. THE HALLMARKS: SOUL SHAKIN’ PSYCHEDELIC SALLY
11. THE SHOESTRING: CANDY ANDY
12. TOMMY MANNO: CONCEITED
13. EUGENE VISCIONE: PARTING KISS