Don Caron’s Orchestra
Academy 5558
1955
Male vocalist (Eddie Allyn?) with group backup. Obviously, despite what the label says, the vocalist is not Gini Patton who was a female singer born Virginia Pasternak.
Don Caron was a schoolteacher who also headed an orchestra that was popular in the Chicago area throughout the 1960s. The orchestra was the house band for a local record label named I.R.C. In 1962 the Caron orchestra got an instrumental hit on a reworking of an old traditional number, "The Work Song." Released on IRC, the record lasted two months on the WLS survey chart.
