Tommy James and the Shondells: Mony Mony and Mafia-Sanctioned Hits
DISGRACELAND
Jake Brennan
4.6 • 13.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Double Elvis. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do. |
| 0:09.2 | Dominate your finances. |
| 0:11.4 | Sunday morning, listening to questionable financial advice from the Fintock Bros on his social feed. |
| 0:18.0 | Drowning in green. |
| 0:19.8 | Scale, scale, scale, scale, scale, scale. |
| 0:21.8 | This is the moment Isaac chose to search Barclay's life skills, |
| 0:25.3 | get some better money intel, and save up for that new skateboard. |
| 0:29.5 | We're helping young people become money confident. |
| 0:32.5 | Search Barclay's life skills. |
| 0:34.6 | Barclays, make money work for you. |
| 0:37.9 | Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. |
| 0:53.2 | The stories about Tommy James and the Chondelles are insane. |
| 0:57.0 | He was obsessed with guns. His hits were sanctioned by the mafia. |
| 1:02.0 | He was heavily addicted to pills and a one-time supplier of speed to the vice president of the United States. |
| 1:09.0 | Tommy James came up during a time when the music industry |
| 1:13.1 | was in part controlled by New York's Italian mafia. And for a period in the 1960s, that power was |
| 1:20.4 | centralized at Roulette Records. The record label was run by convicted extortionist Morris Levy |
| 1:26.4 | and operated in partnership with the |
| 1:28.5 | Genovese crime family. This was where Tommy James made some of his greatest hits, |
| 1:34.6 | great music. Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music. |
| 1:40.9 | That was a preset loop from a Melotron called Frank's Nice and Sleazy MK2. |
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