Angelo D'Aleo of Dion & The Belmonts Interview on WGHT Radio with Jimmy Howes & Greta Latona.

This is an award winning interview: "Garden State Journalist Award-2014 Interview of the Year."

Jimmy Howes & Greta Latona, from the WGHT Radio Morning Show interview with Angelo D'Aleo, founding member of the Belmonts.

The Belmonts are an American doo-wop group from the Bronx, New York, that originated in the mid-1950s. The original group consisted of Fred Milano, Angelo D'Aleo, and Carlo Mastrangelo. They took their name from Belmont Avenue, the street Milano lived on. There were several stages in their history, including the 1958–1960 period with Dion DiMucci, when the group was named Dion and the Belmonts. At this time Mastrangelo sang the bass parts, Milano the second tenor, D'Aleo the falsetto, and DiMucci did lead vocals.

The Belmonts, featuring Milano, D'Aleo, Gradus and Elliott, performed 50 to 100 shows each year until 2011. Milano, who had participated in every one of the Belmonts' recording sessions dating back 54 years, died on January 1, 2012, at the age of 72.[16] DiMucci said of his passing; "I was shocked, obviously, because it was so sudden. It hit hard because a relationship like we had, it’s ingrained in you. We knew each other from our teenage boyhoods; even though we weren’t close and didn’t talk in later years, what we went through together made us like family. He and the Belmonts—they were the very best. Freddie was almost like a genius with vocal harmony. I was humbled to sing with Freddie, Carlo and Angelo."[17]

In October 2012, the Belmonts (D'Aleo and Gradus) joined former New York City disc jockey, Don K. Reed, as featured guests on Vito Picone's (The Elegants) long running, Staten Island based cable TV show, "Let The Good Times Roll.