The Duprees，The classic "doo-wop" group The Duprees formed in the early 1960s in Jersey City, NJ. Its members, Michael Arnone, Joe Santollo, John Salvato, Tom Bialoglow and Mike Kelly, were students at William L. Dickinson High School. In 1962 George Paxton, the owner of Coed Records, heard the group and liked their sound.