NOTIFICATION OF MISSING PERSON

Airmail, Boy Crazy, Breaks Of The Game, But I Love You, Collecting Girls, Come Closer, Dear Someone, For Real! No Fooling, Free*, Girl Scout, Give A Little Whistle, High School Play, I Am, I Can´t Take It, I Like Girls, I Looked For Love, I Make The Love, It´s A Breeze, I Wonna Play House With You, Jealous, Last Night On The Back Porch, Let´s Go, Look Around, Love, Our Wedding Day, Paper Doll, That´s Good - That´s Bad, The Shape I´m In, The Thing, To Love (La Paloma), Two Crazy Kids, When Strangers Meet, Ya Ya. * written by Johnny Restivo

ADVERTISEMENTS: RCA Victor in Alan Freed´s 5th Anniversary Show 1959 RCA Victor in The Billboard Music Sept. 28, 1959 RCA Victor in Lee Gordon presents All American Rock Spectacular! Jan. 27-28, 1960

PROGRAMS/POSTERS: Alan Freed´s 5^th Anniversary Show, 1959 The Performers Actors: Jackie Wilson, Lloyd Price, Jimmy Clanton, Dion and The Belmonts, Bo Diddley, Jo-Ann Campbell, The Skyliners, The Crests, Johnny Restivo, The Mystics, Johnny October, Bobby Lewis, The Tempos, Valerie Carr, Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks and the Rock ´N Roll Orchestra featuring Sam (The Man) Taylor and Georgie Auld.

Lee Gordon presents All American Rock Spectacular! Jan. 27-28, 1960
The Performers Actors: Duane Eddy, Johnny Restivo, Billy "Crash" Craddock,
The Diamonds, Eddie Cochran, Santo & Johnny Farina and Dig Richards.

The Biggest Yet! April 29, 1960
The Performers Actors: Johnny and the Hurricanes, Beatnik Fly,
Danny Valentino, Rod Lauren, Dick Caruso, Gary Stites, Johnny Restivo,
Nicky DeMatteo, Harold Dorman and The Midwest Caravan.

RCA Victor 47-7559 US: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA Victor 47-7601 US: Dear Someone/I Like Girls RCA Victor 47-7636 US: Come Closer/Our Wedding Day RCA Victor 47-7697 US: High School Play/But I Love You RCA Victor 47-7758 US: I Can´t Take It/That´s Good - That´s Bad RCA Victor 47-7818 US: Two Crazy Kids/Give A Little Whistle RCA Victor 61-7559 Stereo US: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA Victor 61-7601 Stereo US: Dear Someone/I Like Girls RCA Victor 47-7559 Canada: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA Victor 47-7601 Canada: Dear Someone/I Like Girls RCA URC-1176 Canada: The Shape I´m In/Love Or Let Me Be Lonely(by Friends of Distinction) RCA 47-7601 Denmark: Dear Someone/I Like Girls RCA 1143 GB: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA 1159 GB: Dear Someone/I Like Girls RCA 2722 GB: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA GOLD 003 England: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA GOLD 525 England: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA OG 9623 UK: The Shape I´m In/Makin´ Love(by Floyd Robinson) RCA 47-7601 Germany: Dear Someone/I Like Girls RCA OLD-25024 Holland: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA Italiana 45N 0890 Italy: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA Italiana 45N 0907 Italy: I Like Girls/Dear Someone RCA Italiana 45N 1003 Italy: Last Night On The Back Porch/Free RCA Italiana 45N 1008 Italy: Come Closer/Our Wedding Day RCA Italiana 45N 1061 Italy: But I Love You/High School Play RCA 3-10060 Spain: Me Gustan Las Chicas(I Like Girls)/ Alguien Querido(Dear Someone) RCA 3-10066 Spain: Ya Ya/Soy Asi(The Shape I´m In) RCA 3-10078 Spain: But I Love You/High School Play RCA 3-10083 Spain: I Can´t Take It/That´s Good - That´s Bad RCA 10764 Australia: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA 10793 Australia: I Like Girls/Dear Someone RCA 10836 Australia: Come Closer/Our Wedding Day RCA 10915 Australia: That´s Good - That´s Bad/I Can´t Take It RCA 4/60142 New Zealand: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA 4/60183 New Zealand: Come Closer/Our Wedding Day RCA 4/60187 New Zealand: But I Love You/High School Play RCA 4/60210 New Zealand: That´s Good - That´s Bad/I Can´t Take It RCA Victor 41.710 South Africa: When Strangers Meet RCA Victor 84-0084 Brazil: I Like Girls/Dear Someone RCA Victor 84-0089 Brazil: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA Victor 47-7601 Chile: Alguien Querido(Dear Someone)/ Me Gustan Las Mujeres(I Like Girls) RCA Victor 76-802 Mexico: Ya Ya/Come Closer RCA Victor SS-1186 Japan: The Shape I´m In/Dear Someone RCA Victor SS-1199 Japan: Come Closer/Goodnight My Love(by Ray Peterson) RCA Victor SS-1202 Japan: Boy Crazy/I Like Girls 20th FOX # 260 US: Looka Here Now/Sweet Sweet Lovin´ 20th FOX # 279 US: Doctor Love/The Magic Age Is Seventeen EPIC 5-9537 US: My Reputation/You Can´t Turn Back The Clock 45 Columbia SCMQ-1610 Italy: My Reputation/You Can´t Turn Back The Clock CBS SSC 435 South Africa: Go Go Eskimo/Smarty CAMEO 416 US: Suzanne/I´m Just A Boy (Looking For A Girl)


RCA Victor 47-7559	RCA Victor 47-7601	RCA 47-7601
US	US	*Denmark*

RCA GOLD 525	RCA OLD-25024	RCA Italiana 45N 0890
*England*	*Holland*	*Italy*

RCA Italiana 45N 0907	RCA Italiana 45N 1003	RCA Italiana 45N 1008
*Italy*	*Italy*	*Italy*

RCA 3-10060	RCA 3-10066	RCA 3-10078
*Spain*	*Spain*	*Spain*

RCA 3-10083	RCA Victor 84-0084	RCA Victor 84-0089
*Spain*	*Brazil*	*Brazil*

SINGLE 78 r.p.m. RCA 1143 GB: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA 71.273 South Africa: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya RCA 71.281 South Africa: Come Closer/Our Wedding Day RCA Victor 1A-2103 Argentina: Me Gustan Las Chicas (I Like Girls)/ Pero Yo Te Quiero (But I Love You) RCA Victor 82-1337 Brazil: I Like Girls/Dear Someone RCA Victor 82-1389 Brazil: Give A Little Whistle/Two Crazy Kids RCA Victor 1A-2103 Uruguay: Me Gustan Las Chicas (I Like Girls)/ Pero Yo Te Quiero (But I Love You)


RCA 1143	RCA 71.281	RCA Victor 1A-2103
GB	*South Africa*	*Argentina*

RCA 75.542 France: The Shape I´m In/YaYa/Dear Someone/I Like Girls RCA 75.568 France: For Real! No Fooling/Love/Come Closer/Boy Crazy Johnny Restivo With Friends RCA EPA-9674 Germany: The Shape I´m In/ Ya Ya/The Ringin´ And The Swingin´ (by Budd McCoy)/ Makin´ Love(by Floyd Robinson) Oh Johnny! RCA EPA-9717 Germany: Last Night On The Back Porch/Love/ Look Around/Boy Crazy Oh Johnny! RCA EPA-30373 Italy: Oh Johnny! RCA Victor EP 20635 Australia: I Like Girls/ Last Night On The Back Porch/I Wanna Play House With You/ The Shape I´m In Oh Johnny! RCA Victor AVE-334 Argentina: Me Gustan Las Chicas (I Like Girls)/ Amor (Love)/Acercate (Come Closer)/ Quiero Jugar A Las Casitas Contigo (I Wanna Play House With You) I Like Girls! (Gosto De Garôtas) RCA Victor 584-5076 Brazil: I Like Girls/ I Can´t Take It/Dear Someone/That´s Good - That´s Bad


RCA 75.542	RCA 75.568	RCA EPA-9674
*France*	*France*	*Germany*

RCA EPA-9717	RCA Victor EP 20635	RCA Victor AVE-334
*Germany*	*Australia*	*Argentina*

Oh Johnny! RCA LPM-2149 Mono US/Mono Canada (2 different LPs): I Like Girls/ Dear Someone/Love/Last Night On The Back Porch/Free/Look Around/ Come Closer/I Wanna Play House With You/Our Wedding Day/ The Thing/Boy Crazy/For Real! No Fooling Oh Johnny! RCA LSP-2149 Stereo US: I Like Girls/Dear Someone/Love/ Last Night On The Back Porch/Free/Look Around/Come Closer/ I Wanna Play House With You/Our Wedding Day/The Thing/Boy Crazy/ For Real! No Fooling Oh Johnny! RCA LPM-2149 Italy: Oh Johnny! RCA L10832 Mono Australia: Come Closer/ I Wanna Play House With You/Our Wedding Day/The Thing/Boy Crazy/ For Real! No Fooling/I Like Girls/Dear Someone/Love/ Last Night On The Back Porch/Free/Look Around Oh Johnny! ultra 1029 Mono Australia: I Like Girls/Dear Someone/Love/ Last Night On The Back Porch/Free/Look Around/The Shape I´m In/ I Can´t Take It/Come Closer/I Wanna Play House With You/ Our Wedding Day/The Thing/Boy Crazy/For Real! No Fooling/Ya Ya/ That´s Good - That´s Bad Oh Johnny! RCA RPL 3157 New Zealand: Oh Johnny! RCA 31.303 Mono South Africa: I Like Girls/Dear Someone/Love/ Last Night On The Back Porch/Free/Look Around/Come Closer/ I Wanna Play House With You/Our Wedding Day/The Thing/Boy Crazy/ For Real! No Fooling Spotlight on Johnny Restivo RCA 31.855 Mono South Africa: Airmail/To Love/ Let´s Go/When Strangers Meet/Paper Doll/I Make The Love/ Collecting Girls/Breaks Of The Game/It´s A Breeze/I Am/Jealous/ Girl Scout Oh Johnny! RCA LPM-2149 Mono Brazil: I Like Girls/Dear Someone/Love/ Last Night On The BackPorch/Free/Look Around/Come Closer/ I Wanna Play House With You/Our Wedding Day/The Thing/ Boy Crazy/For Real! No Fooling The Shape I´m In Bear Family Records BFX 14171 Germany 1985: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya/ I Like Girls/Girl Scout/I Make The Love/ I Wanna Play House With You/The Thing/That´s Good - That´s Bad/ Last Night At The Back Porch/Come Closer/Dear Someone/ I Looked For Love/Our Wedding Day/High School Play/Boy Crazy/ Jealous N. B. Bear Family writes that Girl Scout/I Make The Love/Jealous and I Looked For Love would be unissued in 1984. This is not correct. The first 3 songs were issued 20 years earlier in South Africa at the LP RCA 31.855.

LP COMPILATION Juke-Box Favourites Vol. 1 St*r-Shine 47 03 13 USA: #2:9 Love 24 Top Oldies Vol.4 RCA 43554 Germany: #1:4 The Shape I´m In 20 Great Oldies I´ll always remenber Volume 3 REQUEST Records R.R.L.P. 003 Holland: #2:7 The Shape I´m In Club Records present... Solid Jive vol.2 SJLP002 Spain or England: #2:9 The Shape I´m In Graffiti USA (Vol. 1) RCA CL 42347 Sweden: #3:8 The Shape I´m In Graffiti USA Vol. 2 RCA CL 42913 Sweden: #3:6 I Wanna Play House With You 3KZ Six o´cock Rock Album RCA VAL1 0340 Australia: #2:4 The Shape I´m In

Oh Johnny! RCA Victor 74321 29858 2 EC: I Like Girls/Dear Someone/Love/ Last Night On The Back Porch/Free/Look Around/Come Closer/ I Wanna Play House With You/Our Wedding Day/The Thing/Boy Crazy/ For Real! No Fooling Oh Johnny! South Bay 2149 Japan: The Shape I´m In/Ya Ya/I Like Girls/ I Wanna Play House With You/That´s Good, That´s Bad/ Last Night At The Back Porch/Come Closer/Dear Someone/ Our Wedding Day/High School Play/Boy Crazy/The Thing

The Jukebox Collection Oh Boy - The Sound Of The ´50´s Old Gold OG 3720 England 1989: #5 The Shape I´m In Let´s Go Jivin´ To Rock and Roll Bear Family Records BCD 15533 Germany 1990: #10 The Shape I´m In Rock Era 3 RCA ECD 1083 Argentina 1993: #26 Acércate(Come Closer) Rare "Boppin" Oldies And More... Volume 1 SVP 001 Belgium 1993 or 1994: #19 Last Night On The Back Porch Juke Box Party Vol.3 Century CDR 11134 Canada 1994: #13 The Shape I´m In Pirate Radio - 50´s Obscure US 1994: #6 The Shape I´m In Treasured Tunes Stardust CD-1015 Canada 1995: #8 The Shape I´m In RCA´s Greatest One-Hit Wonders RCA 07863 66881-2 US 1996: #4 The Shape I´m In The Golden Age Of American Rock ´n´ Roll Volyme 6 ace CDCHD 650 UK 1997: #14 The Shape I´m In Rock´n´Roll Complete Volume 5 EMI Music Australasia 7243 8 1471920 Australia 1997: #10 The Shape I´m IN Rock ´n´ Roll Jive Set Discs 3&4 CD026 Holland 1997: #3:27 The Shape I´m In Lost Male Hits Of The 50´s Taragon TARCD-1038 US 1998: #13 The Shape I´m In Rock ´N´ Roll Hop teenage style CDCAR 200 Belgium 1999: #10 The Shape I´m In/ #20 Love Rock ´N´ Roll from the vaults Volume One: Rockabilly RCA Victor 74321 754062 EC 2000: #3 The Shape I´m In Rock and Roll Complete Volume 2 Disc Four EMI Music Australasia 7243 5 283922 3 Australia 2000: #16 I Like Girls East Coast Teen Party Volume 2 ECM CD222 England: #15 The Shape I´m In Party - Fox Folge 5 BMG 74321 78542 2 EU 2000: #2:8 Last Night On The Back Porch Jerry Williams Väljer Århundradets Rocklåtar Volume 2 Stockholm Records 013 065-2 Sweden 2001: #22 The Shape I´m In Hits von Dambmann´s Raupenbahn Hamburg GEMA TT6002 Luxemburg 2004: #23 The Shape I´m In Teenage Love Vol 3 1003: # 27 The Shape I´m In 2004-09-06

THE STORY Johnny and his 9 years younger brother Gerard were sons of Jack and Jeanette Restivo. In 1959 Johnny was discovered by Joe Mulhall AKA Ken Griffin and Paul Neff and in June 9, 1959 he recorded "The Shape I´m In" and "Ya, Ya" at RCA only 15 years old with Paul Simon AKA Jerry Landis playing his guitar. Joe Mulhall studied applied public relations at Boston University and his task was to create a concept or a product, market it and make it work if he want an "A" in this course. Johnny was signed to a long-term $200.000 contract with RCA Victor Records, the #1 label in the industry. Mulhall also booked Johnny into Alan Freed´s 5th Anniversary Show for ten days - two shows a day and he was "Special Guest Star Johnny Restivo" and Mulhall got his "A". Johnny was neither "The Most Perfectly Proportioned Teenager in America, 1958" nor "Junior Mr. America". This was only a component of Mulhall´s marketing. Another erroneous news-item from this time was that Johnny would bought his folks a home in Monroe, New York. Johnny didn´t buy the house for his parents, but he just helped with the down payment in 1960. In 1959 Johnny was also nominated for "Best New Artist" at 2nd Grammy Awards along with Edd Byrnes, Bobby Darin, Mark Murphy and Mavis Rivers. The magazine Hollywood Stars Annual had nominated for "Stardom" James Darren, Andy Williams, Johnny Restivo, Rod Lauren, Paul Evans, Troy Donohue, Mark Goddard, Frankie Avalon, Allen Case and Don Durant. Now Johnny got Dee Anthony as his new manager but Dee handled Tony Bennett too. Dee was so busy with Bennett so he barely had time for Johnny and this was a bad mistake to Johnny. In 1960-1961 Johnny was on tour in Australia. He played in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth as well as many other places while there. From there he also had engagements in South America, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Belgium. While in Argentina he hosted his own variety television show called "The Johnny Restivo Show". The program was on the air for 3 years from 1961-1963 and was sponsored by the Coca Cola Company and Johnny was very sucessful in Brazil. In 1960 there was no singer male or female who could match him. Not even Elvis. All the songs of "Oh Johnny!" album were hits on the radio, there were many covers of his songs recorded by Brazilian artists. Between 1962-1964 even while doing the television program Johnny found time to play at the South American "Copa Cabana" club in Rio and the Waldorf in Santiango, Chile. He also performed in Uruguay and Brazil. Johnny went on tour beginning in 1963. His first country of this multi-country tour was South Africa. He visited Kenya, Southern Rhodesia and Johannesburg. This part of the tour lasted about 6 months. While in Johannesburg during 1963 -1964 he recorded an album on the RCA label entitled "Spotlight On Johnny Restivo". In 1965 he went on to London, England where he performed at the London Palladium as well as many other venues. During the years of 1965-1966 London became Johnny´s home base for the next leg of his tour. From there he spent 2 months touring Israel. One of the places he performed at was the Caliph Club in Jaffa. He also had engagements in Eilat. Then it was on to Italy for a multi-city tour working through the "Johnny Pangazio Agency". After completion of the Italian segment of his tour he went on to Paris, France for a short stay. In 1967 the final leg of the tour took him back home to the USA. Once back home in New York City Johnny was represented by many different agencies including the William Morris Agency. He mostly worked nightclubs, resorts and cruises throughout the USA. In 1969 Johnny was drafted into the United States Armed Forces. He did his basic training in South Carolina and Advanced Infantry Training in El Paso, Texas. He was then stationed in Heidelberg, Germany. He inquired about Special Services, auditioned and was accepted into the 7th Army Soldiers Chorus. Touring again but now for the US Army. He visited Germany, Austria, Holland, Belgium and Italy. In 1971 Johnny took a European discharge and remained in Europe for the next 6 months, after which he headed back home to the USA. In that same year Johnny and Gerard began working together, Gerard as his drummer and musical director, as he attempted to get his career back on track. They did primarily club dates, hotels and resorts throughout America. They also travelled to Mexico and Puerto Rico as well as playing cruises in the Caribbean. During many of the recording sessions that were done in New York City, Gerard was allowed to stay in the recording studio with Johnny or sit with the drummers where he quitely would watch, listen and learn about show business and the recording industry. It was in those very early years that Gerard decided he was going to be in show business and more importantly that he was going to work with his brother making music. In 1978 Johnny formally ended his career in show business after a performance at the Nevelle Hotel in the Catskill mountains town of Ellenville, New York. During these years and beyond, Johnny has been married and divorced 4 times and has 3 children from oldest to youngest: Kelli Hope, Darin and Brandon. He has been in business for himself since 1981 with "Rockland Mattress", which sells bedding, headboards and beds. Johnny loves all kind of sports either as a participator or as a viewer. He was captain of the P. A. L. basketball team when he was 14 years old, he also played football when he was in the ninth grade at Cliffside Park Junior High School. Among his favourites are swimming, water ski-ing, horseback riding, archery and bodybuilding. And in 2002, Johnny finds himself preparing to retire and move permanently to the state of Florida (he always wanted to be in a warm climate). He now spends most of his time playing golf and winding down.


TRIM Aug. 1959	Tomorrow´s Man Nov. 1959	16 MAGAZINE June 1960
US	US	US

	ecran Jan. 1962
	*Chile*


RCA Victor SS-1199	RCA Victor SS-1202	20th FOX # 260
*Japan*	*Japan*	US


RCA LPM-2149	RCA LPM-2149	RCA LSP-2149
US	*Canada*	US

RCA L10832	ultra 1029	RCA 31.303
*Australia*	*Australia*	*South Africa*


SJLP002	RCA CL 42347	RCA CL 42913
*Spain or England*	*Sweden*	*Sweden*


RCA 74321 29858 2	South Bay 2149
EC	*Japan*


Alan Freed´s 1959	The Billboard Sept. 28, 1959	Lee Gordon 1960
US	US	*Australia*


Alan Freed´s	Lee Gordon	The Biggest Yet!
US	*Australia*	US


The Shape I´m In	The Shape I´m In	The Magic Age Is Seventeen
GB	*Australia*	US

	You Can´t Turn Back The Clock
	US


RCA Victor 82-1337	RCA Victor 82-1389	RCA Victor 1A-2103
*Brazil*	*Brazil*	*Uruguay*


RCA 31.855	RCA LPM-2149	BFX 14171
*South Africa*	*Brazil*	*Germany*


*Str-Shine 47 03 13**	RCA 43554	REQUEST R.R.L.P. 003
US	*Germany*	*Holland*


OLD GOLD OG 3720	BCD 15533	RCA ECD 1083
*England*	*Germany*	*Argentina*


SVP 001	CDR 11134	Pirate Radio
*Belgium*	*Canada*	US


Stardust CD-1015	RCA 07863 66881-2	ace CDCHD 650
*Canada*	US	UK


EMI 7243 8 1471920	JIVE SET CD026	TARAGON TARCD-1038
*Australia*	*Holland*	US


	RCA Victor
	US


	Audiodisc # L2PB 1203
	US


RCA K2PB 3874	RCA K2PB 5553
GB	GB


	RCA Victor 584-5076
	Brazil


CAR 200	RCA Victor 74321 754062	EMI 7243 5 283922 3
*Belgium*	EC	*Australia*


ECM CD222	BMG 74321 78542 2	Stockholm Records 013 065-2
*England*	EU	*Sweden*


John´s Motorcycle	John and Gerard
Graduation	Party