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The Young Rascals
My Private Collection
All rights
reserved property of Claire F. Santos Daigle.
My photos are not for Sale but if someone gave me an
offer for a hard copy that I couldn't refuse, I would consider it.
These are the originals and there are no copies anywhere. If you see
them somewhere else, please let me know.
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  Studio photos for fan club members. |
 
Here is my official membership card, front and back.
My sister's friend and President Dolly Drum
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The Barge, Long Island New York
One summer day in 1965, my sister brought home some friends.
They hung out for awhile then they went outside. They got the
biggest kick out of my home-made go-cart and every one took turns riding
it down the hill, by the end of the day Felix, asked my mother if it was okay for me to see them at the
Barge. They would perform in the afternoon on Dune road for
people coming off the beach to have a few cocktails. I was under-age but the deal was,
that I could as long as I stayed with
him and didn't wander around and my sister would take me back home before
the night crowd cam in. These are
the photographs I took. Felix knew what he was doing in recruiting an impressionable kid to become
a life long fan.
 
Doing
the Mickey's Monkey!
I collected Rascal buttons that you see hanging off the nets and tambourines.
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Another of my
sister's friends...with Felix.
The Barge was actually a real barge. That's why the port holes and the
fish nets hanging over Felix's head. It was a tiny place with
a deck all around and on the roof. It was a floating night club in
Westhampton Beach. I have heard from the locals in 2000 that it was
moved to New Jersey.
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I took some of his guitar pics off stage. As you can see the
stage was only 2 feet off the dance floor. In the early years you
could get real close to the stages.
For the longest time I kept the ropes from the go-cart, as a souvenir,
when I grew up, I threw them away along with his green beret. I
figured he must of had a million of them and it didn't mean that much to
me anymore. During the peak of the popularity I went to see them
whenever they were performing near by towns. Sometimes they threw
stuff out into the audience. In my collection I had Dino's drum
sticks, Gene's guitar pics and Eddie's tambourine
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Gene Cornish and my sister sitting at the table.
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  I
sat under the organ and would pop out only to take a pictures quick,
because I didn't want people to see me and get the idea that I had to
leave sooner than I had to. |
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Riverhead Theater, Long Island New York
 
Even though I was crazy about Felix, Eddie was the most fun to watch.
I have his tambourine.
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  Screaming
Felix, he heard me and looked my way. I got the feeling he
remembered me.
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 This
was Dino's signature wave, under the chin, flirting with the kiddies.
Roadie (road manager) in back.
The Rascals are in the "Hall of Fame" and you can go to
their website. I found their history in Wikipedia.
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  Some
fellow Rascal 's fan gave me these two photos.
One at a private party and the other, taken in a hotel hallway in
California.
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 The
Coliseum, New YorkOne time I saw them at the Canoe Place Inn in the
1970's when they became famous and they were different. They were
not having fun and were not as friendly. My sister saw Felix in
Arizona in 2004. She got a note passed to him backstage and waited for a response
and the P.R. person came back and said Felix said he doesn't
remember you. Jeesezzz! |
 The
cabins in the background are where the Rascals used to stay when on the
Island on Dune road. Living only 20 minutes away, I went to the beach often with my niece and was
always hopeful that I would get a glimpse of them.
Hope your enjoyed my collection. As I remember more or can get my
sister to share her photos ...I'll update this page.   
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These images belong to my sister. They are perfect
examples of the deterioration that happens to photos of the 1960's that
were in scrapbooks with plastic protection. The plastic starts to
decompose and that's the yellow sticky stuff all over them.
 
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Links
to other Rascal sites www.FelixCavaliere.com
This is Felix today, I was surprised he didn't have pictures of himself or
the band in the early years. So what Joe Russo explains in his
history of the Rascals holds true. Their publicity managers did not
document their rise to fame. The
Rascals Archives by Joe Russo a music historian on the Rascals. He is
trying to bring to one site lost photos of the Rascals Long
Island Hall of Fame Staples
High School, see a really good photo of Dino playing the drums in
1966. The
Young Rascals Music Store If you do a search for
The Young Rascals, you can spend the entire day looking for photos like
mine. These sites here were the best I could find for now. Last revision
8/01/07
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