Jimmy and the Houserockers were the first white band to play at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, where they celebrated the movie's release.

He knew even then that playing the harmony was not for him, and he wanted to do the melody line, sing, and lead a band.

When he left home to serve in the United States Navy at the end of World War II, Cavallo took his saxophone with him.

[4] In the segregated South, Jimmy's band brought R&B to white audiences who weren't allowed in black clubs.

He moved back to Syracuse in late 1949 and was a popular local that year and the early 50s, packing the clubs in town and at Sylvan Beach on Oneida Lake.

In the 10-day extended gig, the House Rockers were augmented by a big band of veterans of the Duke Ellington and Count Basie orchestras, led by Sam The Man Taylor.

In 1957, they did a summer-long residence in Wildwood, New Jersey at a club called Harry Roeshe's Beachcomber, and the headliners of this bill were the Treniers.