Biography
Joey Castle was like a lot of the kids who came up in the wake of Elvis Presley, trying to sound like him and not making it, but with a difference -- Castle left behind a dozen or so records that are well worth hearing.
Among the ranks of Elvis Presley sound-alikes, there are the imitators who came along in the wake of his death in 1977 and then there are those who came to the sound a little more honestly, back in the formative days of rock and roll. Joey Castle, aka Cliff Rivers, real name Jospeh Fohn Castaldo, fits into the latter category -- he was even signed to RCA. And he never had the chance to cash in on Elvis death as a sound-alike artist, succumbing to brain cancer less than 18 months after the demise of his onetime idol.
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Joseph Castaldo was born in the Bronx, NY, in 1942, and was 13 years old when rock and roll broke nationally -- the family was a musical one, his uncle Lee Castle having become famous as a bandleader in the 1940s, but Joey took to the … » Read more Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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