Dion DiMucci

In the 1980s and 1990s, he returned to secular pop music. See also: Indie rock. In the late 1970s, Dion recorded albums in the Contemporary Christian Music vein. The bands of the collective have since all moved on to various labels and projects of their own, though many are still friends and even tour together under various guises. His Born To Be With You album, produced by Phil Spector and released in 1973, was a commercial disaster, but has been cited by Jason Pierce of Spiritualized as a major influence on Spiritualized's work. In October 2002, the Elephant Six Collective as a fully functioning entity called it quits, due to difficulties in recording and lack of organization. He continued to record protest songs into the 1970s. This was the ostensible nature of the Elephant Six collective: instruments, players, and space are divided among and shared among many projects.

Kennedy. The most characteristic trait of an Elephant Six recording is the eclectic and exotic instrumentation: along with the guitars and drums you can hear, for example, the flugelhorn, singing saw, wandering genie, and one-note piano on Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane over the Sea; the euphonium, selemintan, and magnus organ on Olivia Tremor Control's Black Foliage; the sitar, "magic robot voice", and Nepalese copper shawn on Elf Power's When the Red King Comes; and everything from sarangi to clarinet played by eighteen backup musicians on Beulah's When Your Heartstrings Break. After getting clean from drug use (he has remained clean ever since except for a brief period in the mid-1970s) he switched to protest songs in the late 1960s; his best-known song as a soloist, "Abraham, Martin, and John", was a response to the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Several Elephant Six projects began to find commercial success in the late 1990s, including Beulah, Elf Power, The Music Tapes, and Of Montreal, as well as the founding bands mentioned above. During the mid-1960s, he struggled with his addictions and recorded songs in a folk-rock vein. The Elephant Six Recording Company was a musical collective founded in Athens, Georgia, USA, by Bill Doss, Will Cullen Hart (both, now formerly, of Olivia Tremor Control), Jeff Mangum (of Neutral Milk Hotel), and Robert Schneider (of the Apples in Stereo), the four of whom grew up making music in Ruston, Louisiana. He was a singer and songwriter whose career began in popular music in the 50s with his group known as Dion & the Belmonts.He went solo in the early 1960s and continued to have hits with songs like "Runaround Sue", "The Wanderer" and "Ruby Baby" until 1964, when changing public tastes and heroin addiction caused him to enter a commercial decline. Von Hemmling.

Dion DiMucci was born July 18, 1939 in the Bronx, New York, United States. Visitations. ulysses. Thimble Circus. Sunshine Fix.

Secret Square. Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't. Orchestre Fantastique. Olivia Tremor Control.

Of Montreal. Neutral Milk Hotel. My First Keyboard. The Music Tapes.

Minders. Midget and Hairs. Marta Tennae. Marshmallow Coast.

Marbles. Jeff Mangum. Major Organ and the Adding Machine. Helium.

Late B.P. Ladybug Transistor. The Instruments. High Water Marks.

Great Lakes. The Gerbils. Frosted Ambassador. Fablefactory.

Essex Green. Elf Power. Dressy Bessy. Dixie Blood Mustache.

Circulatory System. Chocolate USA. Black Swan Network. Beulah.

Bablicon. The Apples in Stereo. A Hawk and a Hacksaw.