Actors Who Had Unsuccesful Music Careers

Nevertheless, this comedic album wasn’t Pesci’s first foray into the music realm. Within the Sixties, the Residence Alone actor was distinguished within the New Jersey music scene.

As famous within the Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons musical Jersey Boys, Pesci really launched the band to songwriter Bob Gaudio, who would go on to write down a lot of their chart-toppers. For some time, Pesci was additionally a member of Joey Dee and the Starliters — a band whose declare to fame was that legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix was briefly a member. By 1968, the actor launched his first album, Little Joe Certain Can Sing, comprising covers of the most important pop songs of the day. The album was not critically profitable, and Pesci concentrated his efforts on his movie profession till 1999 — when he introduced that he was retiring from performing to concentrate on music.

The Goodfellas star launched a jazz album, Falling in Love Once more, in 2003 beneath the id “Joey Doggs.” His newest album, Pesci…Nonetheless Singing dropped in 2019, shortly after the actor’s look within the Netflix movie The Irishman.