From: "Dik de Heer"  
Date: Sun Jul 31, 2005  12:06 pm 
Subject: Re:  The Playmates

There's not much on the Playmates, they were not an important
group. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music has this
short biography:

THE PLAYMATES

This humorous US pop trio comprised Donny Conn (b. 29 March
1930), Morey Carr (b. 31 July 1932) and Chic Hetti (b. 26 February 1930),
all from Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. They formed the comedy and music trio
the Nitwits while studying at the University of Connecticut and started
touring in 1952 with an act that relied more on humour than singing ability.
Renamed the Playmates, they made their first record, "I Only Have Myself To
Blame", on Rainbow in 1956. They moved to Roulette Records in 1957 and their
third single on that label, "Jo-Ann', a cover version of the Twin Tones"
record, hit the US Top 20 in 1958. Over the next four years the clean-cut
vocal group chalked up another nine US chart entries including the Top 20
hits "What Is Love?" and "Beep Beep", which reached number 4 in the USA.
They later recorded on ABC-Paramount, Colpix, Congress and Bell but their
sound proved too dated to sell in the 60s.

Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Copyright Muze UK Ltd. 1989 - 2002

Donny Conn, who wrote "Beep Beep", went on to be a comedian and
comedy writer.

Dik