"First" and "Exclusive" Achievements

First teen group to place an album in national top-forty charts.

First artists anywhere signed to the very first Dick Clark "Caravan of Stars".

Youngest members (in 1960) ever accepted to ASCAP.

First group to win Turntable Magazine’s "Best Group Award" two consecutive years (1959 and 1960).

First group to introduce strings to Rock and Roll.

First white artists to top national black charts

First winners of Bill Powell’s Pittsburgh Achievement Award for vocal group (1960).

First artists to release pre-recording-career rehearsal tapes of 1956-1958 "Pre-flight" LP (Relic/Skyrock--1986).

First Pittsburgh million-selling record ("SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU") 1959.

First Pittsburgh publishing company to be a national success (Calico Publishing).

First Pittsburgh songwriters to sell a million copies (THE SKYLINERS & Joe Rock).

First Pittsburgh artists to appear on "The Midnight Special".

First Pittsburgh artists to release a 12-inch single.

First Pittsburgh artists to appear on Dick Clark’s "American Bandstand" (4 times).

First Pittsburgh artists to appearon Saturday Night ABC Beechnut Show (4 times).

First Pittsburgh artists to appear on Alan Freed’s TV Show (numerous appearances).

First Pittsburgh artists to appear on Alan Freed’s "Big Beat Revues" (numerous appearances).

First teen artists to co-write, co-produce, and co-publish their own records.

First Pittsburgh vocal group to appear at the world famous "Apollo Theater"--first and only to appear there in eight separate week-long engagements--only group to be held over two weeks in a row.

First Pittsburgh artists on the "Dick Clark Collectors" CD (1988).

First Pittsburgh artists on Dick Clark’s "Best of Bandstand" video cassette (1989).

First Pittsburgh artists on Dick Clark’s syndicated "TV Golden Classics" (1989).

First Pittsburgh artists to be on the cover of Cashbox.

First Pittsburgh group to headline at the Beacon Theater on Broadway (1976).

First Pittsburgh group to headline Radio City Music Hall (1982).

First Pittsburgh artists to headline Playboy Casino Hotel and Resorts International in Atlantic City (1981, 1982, 1984, and 1986).

First Pittsburgh group to be on a million-selling TV compilation album (1972).

First Pittsburgh song to be classified "standard" by ASCAP ("SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU").

First Pittsburgh group to have song pass 1,000,000 airplays (‘SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU").

First Pittsburgh artists to win Danny Thomas ALSAC Award for raising funds for St. Jude Childrens’ Hospital.

First Pittsburgh group to release LP, cassette, and CD of greatest hits (1987).

First Pittsburgh group on million-plus-selling movie soundtrack LP-- "American Graffiti".

First Pittsburgh artists to play Madison Square Garden (1970).

First Pittsburgh artists to play Three Rivers Stadium (1969).

First Pittsburgh artists to play Civic Arena (1961).

First Pittsburgh artists to appear at the Syria Mosque (1959).

Only entertainers invited to 1979 reception for President Jimmy Carter.

Only artists to have one-hour prime time NBC TV show titled after and based on their song ("Downtown, 1987" "SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU").

Only writers to have song recorded by over 100 artists ("SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU").

Only artists to have half-hour segment of ABC TV ‘Happy Days" based on their song (1982--"SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU").

Only artists to have song featured on NBC prime- time TV series, "Dirty Dancing" (1988--"SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU").

Only Pittsburgh artists to be on "Billboard" charts for three decades (‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s). One of only 7 artists in recording history to do so.

Only Pittsburgh artists represented in Drake’s History of Rock and Roll (discussed by Phil Spector).

Only Pittsburgh artists represented in Rolling Stone’s Anthology of Rock and Roll (1980).

Only Pittsburgh artists’ song featured on two separate episodes of NBC prime-time TV series "Crime Story" (1987).

Only Pittsburgh artists to be in top ten of WCBS-FM (New York) Top Hits of all time since its inception.

Only Pittsburgh artists to have four different songs on WCBS Top Hits of all time

Only Pittsburgh artists in KRLA (Los Angeles) Top Hits of all time (top ten) since its inception.

Only Pittsburgh artists to top all surveys for Pittsburgh’s all-time number one song--"SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU.

Only Pittsburgh artists to appear for eleven years with Art Pallan for Children’s’ Hospital fund raiser.

Only Pittsburgh artists to have song ("SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU") made into MTV video recorded by Guns ‘n Roses

Movie Credits

"SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU" movie credits: "American Graffiti", "American Hot Wax", "Always on Tuesday", "Shag", "Buckaroo Bonzai", and "Lethal Weapon II".

"THIS I SWEAR" movie credits: "LaBamba", "Hometown U.S.A.", "Lethal Weapon II".

"HOW MUCH" movie credits: "Lethal Weapon II".

"LONELY WAY" movie credits: "Lethal Weapon II".

"BELIEVE ME" movie credits: "Lethal Weapon II".