Though the Relic label has gone out of business, this CD remains available from some "oldies" dealers at reasonable prices. Get it while you can. Liner notes by Bob Diskin tell the group's story in 4 pages.
This 1992 package contains what appears to be all the tracks by the Passions released by the Audicon, Octavia and Jubilee labels between 1959 & 1962, plus some alternate takes. Formed in Brooklyn in 1958 by a melding of members of two previously-unsuccessful and unrecorded vocal groups [the Sinceres from Bensonhurst and the Runarounds from Red Hook], the Passions consisted of Jimmy Gallagher (lead), Tony Armato (first tenor), Albie Galione (second tenor),and Vinny Acierno (baritone).
If you like "white" doo-wop harmony, this one is a "keeper."
Track listing:
1. Just To Be With You - (Audicon #102) 1959
2. I Only Want You - (Audicon #105) 1960
3. Gloria - (Audicon #106) 1960
4. Made For Lovers - (Audicon #112) 1960
5. This Is My Love - (Audicon #105) 1960
6. One Look Is All It Took - (Audicon #108/Jubilee #5406) 1960/1962
7. Oh Melancholy Me - (Audicon #102) 1959
8. You Don't Love Me Anymore - (Audicon #112) 1960
9. Lonely Road - (Jubilee #5406) 1962
10. Aphrodite - (Octavia #8005) 1961
11. Just To Be With You - (Unreleased Alternate Take) 1959
12. Jungle Drums - (Audicon #106) 1960
13. I Gotta Know - (Octavia #8005) 1961
14. This Is My Love - (Unreleased Alternate Take) 1960
15. I Only Want You - (Unreleased Alternate Take) 1960
16. Beautiful Dreamer - (Audicon #108) 1960
