Album Share: Michael Quint In Concert
Up this month we’ve got the vocal stylings of South Florida entertainer Michael Quint ready to tickle your aural sensibilities.
This album, recorded in 1977, sees the impressively pompadoured Mr. Quint performing a concert in front of a polite if not enthusiastic audience. Mr. Quint has a unique singing style that includes several unusual vocal effects including tongue rolls, spoken interjections, unintentional yodeling, and an especially wide vibrato. He also treats the audience to a few impressions during his Elvis medley.
Mr. Quint sings in front of a band that includes keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, trumpet, trombone, and various woodwind instruments. The arrangements (by two gentlemen named Morris Hubbard and Mike Lewis) are serviceable, but the band sounds under rehearsed overall. If I had to bet, I would say that this was probably some sort of pick up group hired to play only this concert.
I haven’t been able to find out any information about Mr. Quint. Some of the others listed on the back cover have gone on to bigger and better things, most notably the recording engineers Joe Foglia and Peter Yianilos.
Have fun listening and as always, Enjoy!
Download individual tracks:
1. Proud Mary.
3. You Don’t Have To Be A Star.
4. I’m Gonna Make It All The Way.
5. After The Loving.
6. Tie A Yellow Ribbon Around The Old Oak Tree.
7. Impossible Dream.
8. Don’t Be Cruel – Teddy Bear Medley.
9. Swear To God
10. Release Me.
11. I’ll Never Fall In Love Again.
12. Hard To Handle.
13. The Way We Were.
14. Ebb Tide.
15. I Believe.
Or download all the mp3s and cover art in one 68 MB zip file.
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July 27th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Very bad singer.In restaurant sing any better .
Super bad !
Spasibo about information!
August 10th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Hi, I don’t know if this is a good space to place a little request or just speak out a wish.
I’ve been looking over the internet and all the record stores I had come across, not founding anything with Len Chandler.
I think that if I should find him on the Internet one day it would be in an Vinyl Orphanage.
Good luck with the mission.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
This is amazing! Thanks for posting this treasure, you made my day!
October 16th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
This is an incredible blog! I saved this little gem to my favorites. I could comment on every post it seems. Do you know if there are any videos of Mr. Quint performing. I’d love to post them on my blog.
November 22nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Mike Quint and I went to high school together in Deerfield Beach fl. The Quint is short for Quintaliani.He his brother Chick and his Dad sang in a trio known as the Quint brothers trio. I havent seen or heard from Mike in 30years or more.
February 28th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
I have been searching for Michael Quint on the internet for years! We used to go see him perform one summer in the early 90′s at a beer and pizza joint called Vicky’s Apizza in Madison, CT. He entertained the hell out of us and all the 50-somethings that ate up his version of “Delilah.” He was accompanied by his drummer who went by the name, I believe, of Johnny G. Johnny G had a perpetual cigarette dangling from his lips and every song seemed to have something of a bossa nova beat.
Eventually he left us for bigger and better things (a gig at Water’s Edge in Westbrook) and not long after, Vicky’s burned down.
*Sigh*
April 30th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
I am Anthony Quintiliani and I am Michael Quintiliani’s son. I am 20 years old. My father has GREATLY improved with age. He is doing well these days. Johnny g passed about 5 months ago from lung cancer. im not sure of his exact age. I was shocked to see this album on the internet. My father is truly gifted and will be performing these classics live again. Just to get his facts straight: his oldest brother’s name is Tony but they call him chuck (not chick hahaha) his youngest brother is Dean. My grandfather’s name was also Tony. He passed october 11th 2008. Michael Anthony Quintiliani was born on September 11, 1955.