These photographs, the postcard, and the newspaper clipping from the previous page are all scanned from a scrapbook created for my father by his late first wife, Anita Parascondola. I remember, at my father's mother's funeral, I met Ms. Parascondola's son, who my father served as a stepfather to while he was in the Wild Ones. Her son asked me if I had seen this scrapbook. I told him I hadn't, but later I realized that I had and I simply didn't remember it. I found it to be a great wealth of information and interesting materials relating to the Wild Ones. (One interesting piece of material that was saved was a note that Jackie Gleason wrote to my father and had delivered to him while he was playing on the bandstand at Arthur which reads "One man's opinion...you're the whole business up there! Good show!". The note can be viewed in the bibliography section.
Once the group was finalized, the Wild Ones got an audition and began playing opposite the Younger Brothers (the house band) at the Peppermint Lounge at 128 West 45th St. in Manhattan. Eventually they became the house band at this venue (Alden Interview 2, Peppermint Lounge Postcard).
The band left the Pepppermint Lounge for Arthur in mid-April 1965 (Alden Interview 2).
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