History of Ron-Cris Enterprises, Inc.

   Six years later, Dominic wrote his first song, “North Star.” In those days, Dominic played the trumpet and Margaret was a gorgeous female vocalist with a warm and sexy set of pipes. When we wrote songs back then, we’d have Hal Jordan, an arranger, write out a lead sheet, which is a music sheet with the melody line and lyrics. A male vocalist and a piano player would be hired to perform our music. It was this association that brought us to meet two of the most wonderful people who became our greatest friends. The piano player was Ronnie Simone, who graduated in 1958 with a master’s degree in music from Yale University, and Pat Marlow, a man with the smoothest voice you ever heard. The only thing greater than his voice was the big heart that beat inside him.
Unfortunately, we lost Marlow, whom we dubbed “Perry,” at an early age, but Simone is still a most successful and sought-after pianist in Las Vegas.

                      

   With Simone and Marlow at our side, we would go to the Loomis and Temple Music Store in New Haven, which had a small room in their basement show rooms with a piano, microphone and a Rec-O-Cut machine used to cut acetate records. There, records of our songs would be cut, for us to peddle to publishers in Manhattan. When Loomis and Temple discontinued this service and wanted to sell the record-cutting machine, we bought it. We already had a piano, so we purchase a home R.C.A. tape recorder and a microphone and set it up in an alcove off our living room to cut our own demos. Since people could no longer go to Loomis and Temple, they started to call us, and before you knew it, we got to know all the song writers in the area and were cutting their demos. Things started to get hectic for the living room and the house so we built a professional recording studio in the third-floor attic flat.

                     

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