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Dio Has Rocked For A Long, Long Time

Posted by Bram Teitelman on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at at 10:29 am

The First In Line

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How legendary of a singer is Ronnie James Dio? So great that your grandmother might have thought the same thing. Ronnie and the Redcaps released this single in 1959, with Dio handling vocals, bass and trumpet. A reader (thanks Stabitha C!) alerted us to the existence of this, and made our day.

 

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4 Comments For This Post

  1. Stabitha C. Says:
    September 15th, 2009 at 10:33 AM

    And now a shout-out on the Insider has made MY day! Bram, I love your horrible puns and references to the D.

  2. Jesse Menard Says:
    September 15th, 2009 at 11:35 AM

    holy shit haha

  3. Dan Contogiannis Says:
    September 15th, 2009 at 2:07 PM

    Oh my god. How had I never heard of this? Amazing.

  4. iilana Says:
    September 15th, 2009 at 9:10 PM

    Here is an entire collection of early Dio. Well worth checking out. I just wish there were some way to identify if all of these songs were covers or if RJD actually wrote any of them.

    http://goodnightwhateveryouare.blogspot.com/2009/08/ronnie-james-dio-1958-1965-rock-n-roll.html?zx=9ca7c5ac0ff4f

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