However, this comedic album wasn’t Pesci’s first foray into the music realm. In the 1960s, the Home Alone actor was prominent in the New Jersey music scene.
As noted in the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons musical Jersey Boys, Pesci actually introduced the band to songwriter Bob Gaudio, who would go on to write many of their chart-toppers. For a while, Pesci was also a member of Joey Dee and the Starliters — a band whose claim to fame was that legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix was briefly a member. By 1968, the actor released his first album, Little Joe Sure Can Sing, comprising covers of the biggest pop songs of the day. The album was not critically successful, and Pesci concentrated his efforts on his film career until 1999 — when he announced that he was retiring from acting to focus on music.
The Goodfellas star released a jazz album, Falling in Love Again, in 2003 under the identity “Joey Doggs.” His latest album, Pesci…Still Singing dropped in 2019, shortly after the actor’s appearance in the Netflix film The Irishman.
