<P> The Rascals (initially known as The Young Rascals) were an American rock band, formed in Garfield, New Jersey in 1965 . Between 1966 and 1968 the New Jersey act reached the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 with nine singles, including the #1s "Good Lovin"' (1966), "Groovin"' (1967), and "People Got to Be Free" (1968), as well as big radio hits such as the much - covered "How Can I Be Sure?" (#4 1967) and "A Beautiful Morning" (#3 1968), plus another critical favorite "A Girl Like You" (#10 1967). The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 . </P> <P> The Rascals were inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in 2010 and also reunited in 2012 for a series of shows in New York and New Jersey . The reunion continued on in 2013 with shows on Broadway . </P> <P> Eddie Brigati (vocals), Felix Cavaliere (keyboard, vocals), Gene Cornish (guitar) and Dino Danelli (drums) started the band in Brigati and Danelli's hometown of Garfield, New Jersey . Brigati, Cavaliere, and Cornish had previously been members of Joey Dee and the Starliters . Eddie's brother, David Brigati, an original Starliter, helped arrange the vocal harmonies and sang backgrounds on many of the group's recordings (informally earning the designation as the "fifth Rascal"). When Atlantic Records signed them, they discovered that another group, Borrah Minnevitch's and Johnny Puleo's' Harmonica Rascals', objected to their release of records under the name' The Rascals' . To avoid conflict, managers Sid Bernstein and founder Billy (Amato) Smith decided to rename the group' The Young Rascals' . </P> <P> The Young Rascals' first television performance was on the program Hullabaloo on February 24, 1966 where they performed their debut single "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore". The track reached #23 in Canada and touched the lower reaches of the US charts . This modest success was followed by the US / Canada #1 single "Good Lovin"' (1966, originally recorded by Lemme B. Good & The Olympics in 1965 with much different lyrics). </P>

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