Egged on by his grandfather, a seven-year-old Antonino LoTempio – born January
6, 1935, in Niagara Falls, New York - was at a Benny Goodman concert when he
went trotting up to the band leader and asked if he could sing a song. So
impressed was Goodman by the precocious child, he invited him back to the
Buffalo Theatre to perform for the next six nights. His sister Caroline – born
April 29, 1929, in Niagara Falls - was something of child protégé as well and,
as April Stevens, reached Number 6 in the US charts in 1951 when she sang with
Henri Rene's orchestra on the Cole Porter tra...