Dion

Pop singer Dion DiMucci, known simply as Dion, came up as a teen idol with a string of pop hits in the late 1950s and early ’60s before reinventing himself in the late ’60s.

• Dion got his start in 1957 with a handful of singles for Mohawk Records that made little impression.

After recruiting Carlo Mastrangelo, Fred Milano, and Angelo D'Aleo—three friends from his neighborhood in the Bronx—and dubbing them The Belmonts, the quartet began recording for Laurie Records.