On September 1, 2016, we attended the memorial service for our friend Ron Taylor of the great Plainfield vocal group, the Del Larks. In a celebration of Ron’s life, the acappella group, Re-MemberThen got up and sang a couple songs, including “Crying In The Chapel” and the Del Larks’ song, “I Never Will Forget”. Ron had sung with Re-MemberThen on a few occasions and had helped the group learn the harmony on “I Never Will Forget”.
After the service, Re-MemberThen retired to the Bound Brook (NJ) Railroad Tunnel where they sang an impromptu acappella rendition of “I Believe” in memory of Ron Taylor. We watched and Marian Cicerale video’d the song and posted it to FaceBook. Within the first 48 hours, the video has gotten more than 8,000 views and over 200 shares.
A couple of guys coming off of the train walked through the group during the song. We wonder if they know they are part of a viral video.
Re-memberThen is a Piscataway NJ based acappella group consisting of Frank Cicerale, Bill Butkowski, Marty Geliebter, Mike DelFranco and Sal Contrino. The group will be appearing with Earls’ Larry Chance at Roxy & Dukes (Dunellen, NJ) on December 11, 2016 and will also be one of six acappella groups on our March 4, 2017, Doo Wop Explosion-II at Monmouth University.
Watch a YouTube of the video that has gone viral, below.
