Dion DiMucci

… star (apart from belatedly signing Dion at the end of 1962), Columbia—through a mixture of luck and foresight—wound up with three of the main folk-rock acts of the mid-1960s: Bob Dylan, the Byrds, and Simon and Garfunkel.

The original members were Dion DiMucci (b. July 18, 1939, New York City, New York, U.S.), Angelo D’Aleo (b. February 3, 1940, New York City, New York), Fred Milano (b. August 26, 1939, New York City, New York—d. January 1, 2012, Long Island, New York), and Carlo Mastrangelo (b.…