Hushabye
Singer Al Lambert; Vito Picone, lead singer of The Elegants; Rosemarie Dressler, South Shore Rotary President; Al Contrea,, founder of the Mystics and author of HUSHABYE; and Tom Tyburczy, of the Dreamers.
The business and professional men and women of the South Shore Rotary club welcomed Al Contrera, founding member of the Mystics’ as the guest speaker at their recent meeting. “During his career as a mechanical engineer, Al Contrera worked on projects from New York City to Cairo,” said Rosemarie Dressler, president, South Shore Rotary Club. “He also founded a rock and roll group in the 1950s. Today he continues to entertain audiences with the classic, the Mystics and the Brooklyn Reunion.” Al Contrera’s new book, Hushabye, he shares how five Brooklyn teenagers went from singing on street corners to fame with their hit song. “Al’s book, Hushabye, provides an insight into the sweet sound of the street corner doo-wop harmonies of the 1950’s,” said long-time South Shore Rotarian and Singer Al Lambert. Contrera accounts of the trials and adventures of forming a rock and roll group to a neighborhood controlled by the mob. Al Lambert, South Shore Rotary past president and lead singer of the Elegants, Vito Picone, and Thomas Tyburczy of the Dreamers joined Rotarians in singing the hit song hit song, HUSHABYE.