The Danleers was an American doo-wop group formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1958. The group's original and most famous lineup consisted of Jimmy Weston, Johnny Lee, Willie Ephraim, Nat McCune, and Roosevelt Mays. One of many streetcorner vocal groups in Brooklyn, they rose to prominence in 1958 on the strength of the single 《One Summer Night》, written by their manager, Danny Webb, who also named the group. The single was one of the biggest hits of that year and sold over one million copies. Further releases were not so successful and the group mostly dissolved by the mid-1960s. It continued to tour for several decades with Weston as the main original member. 　　The Danleers formed in Brooklyn, New York in early 1958, as one of many street-corner doo-wop groups. Danny Webb became the group’s manager and prinicpal songwriter, naming them after himself. The group recorded their debut single,《One Summer Night》, for the AMP 3 label, owned by Bill Lasley, who signed the group in spring 1958. The song began gaining traction regionally and, unable to handle distribution,the label leased the single to Mercury Records. Mercury helped push the song to become one of that year’s biggest summer songs, and sell over one million copies.《One Summer Night》reached number four on the Billboard Black Singles chart, and number seven on the Best Selling Pop Singles in Stores chart in 1958.The single sold over one million copies. 　　The group joined Frankie Avalon, Bobby Darin, and others on a nationally touring road show in the late 1950s.The group’s efforts with subsequent singles were not successes. They released two more singles on Mercury before the label dropped them and they dissolved as the decade closed. Weston and Webb were determined to have another hit single, and signed with Epic in 1960 with a new lineup. Their first release for Epic, "If You Don’t Care", did not attract attention, nor did any other releases from the group.The group continued to tour in support of their one hit for several decades, with various members. The original group reformed for one show at the Westbury Music Fair on Long Island in 1988.In 1996, The Best of the Danleers: The Mercury Years, was released; the compilation includes all of the group’s singles for Mercury, in addition to unreleased recordings 　　Information regarding members culled from American Singing Groups: A History from 1940s to Today by Jay Warner.