The Choir

The Choir started as a Mentor, OH pop/rock band playing in the greater Cleveland area, from the mid-1960s into the early 1970s. Originally called The Mods, their largest commercial success came with the release of their first single "It's Cold Outside" in December 1966, originally on Canadian-American, then on Roulette. It went to Number 1 on the charts of Cleveland radio stations WKYC and WIXY in May of 1967. The song, considered to be a classic of the garage rock era, was featured on Pebbles, Volume 2, one of the earlier garage rock compilation LPs. The flipside, "I'm Going Home" was included as a bonus track when the Pebbles album was reissued as a CD, and it can also be found on a garage rock compilation LP on Ohio bands, Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 9. The Choir is well known for containing three of the four original members of Raspberries, Wally Bryson, Dave Smalley and Jim Bonfanti -.