THE PERFECTIONS - by Al Kelly Sometimes a weird hardly ever heard of record grabs the attention of the oldies loving Group Harmony crowd and somehow becomes a favorite. This is one of those records. The Perfections began in '62 with Stan Tyszka on lead and Danny Impriano, first tenor, both from South Philly while John Breidenback, 2nd tenor and Tony Andreacola from across the river in Camden, NJ. They all met at a car repaid place and became friends. The group actually wrote this song while waiting to get a flat fixed and all took part in writing parts of the song. They took their name right off a racing form at Atlantic City Racetrack, the horse was Lady Perfection!! Danny's father's cousin was best friends with Nina Green (famous today for Nina's Oldies catalog, Collectibles Record label) but at the time Nina 's husband was Jerry Green (used to manage Slim Rose's Times Square Record Shop) owned the Record Museum Record Shops, which copied Times Square with a great collection of oldies and they owned several shops thru the Philly area. Jerry with his then partner Jared Weinstein founded Lost Nite Records. The Dad got the group an appointment with Jerry & Nina Green at their apartment on Osage Ave, the group did a few songs plus this one. The next day they all got into Green's new Chevy and went up to Brooklyn, NY to record a session. Al Browne was warned the day before to set up the sesssion but Browne got into drinking earlier that day and they all thought the trip was a waste but Browne held up in a stupor to get the four songs finished. All the musicians were Browne's group and they were used to his falling asleep at a session and carried on. So in the Fall of '62, this record was released The other two sides can be found on the Best of Crimson CD put out by Collectibles and one "Crimson Hair" could have been another single for them, it gets play here and there. The record became a local hit in the Philly area and Baltimore. It got some action in Boston. The Boys promoted the record doing hops and live appearances and Green was supposed to lease the record to Atlantic and they dropped out after seeing that the group was white, they had no history with a white group other than the Young Rascals. Lost Nite never followed up with another record sticking with the oldies as their future releases other than a Lee Andrews release. The group all took regular jobs and split up.