Lead guitar player Carl Giammarese lived only a few blocks away from John Poulos in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago.

[5] He approached singers George LeGros and Dennis Tufano who sang harmonies in an a cappella group called The Darsals to come join his band, "The Pulsations".

[6] Local Chicago-area deejay and booking agent for Willard Alexander, Carl Bonafede, attests to the fact that John personally recruited singers Dennis Tufano and his close friend George Legros at Gordon Technical High School.

[9] When USA Records released The Buckinghams from their contract, the band had a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts with Kind of a Drag.

John Poulos and Dennis Tufano flew out to Los Angeles to meet with James William Guercio to seek management and a new record deal.