Real name: Dean and Marc Mathis

Effective period / Period of releases: 1959 - 1962

Dean : born Louis Aldine Mathis, 17 March 1937, Hahira, Georgia
Marc : born Marcus Felton Mathis, 9 February 1940, Hahira, Georgia

Moonlighted as The Marcus Brothers for Lee Rupe's Ebb label in Los Angeles, with "Sugar Booger / Little Girl In Pig Tails". Their Checker single "Lucky Sixteen", recorded on February 2, 1959, is very hard to find. Even Tapio doesn't have a copy, though it has been reissued on the CD mentioned at the bottom. Also recorded at that session was "Sioux City Sue / Deep Sleep", another Argo single.

However, their only hit was not recorded for the Chess-Checker-Argo group of labels, but for the Bullseye Records label in New York City. It was a cover of the Travis and Bob hit "Tell Him No" (1959). Label credit went to Dean & Marc this time. The second Bullseye single was "The Beginning Of Love / Cry". Also released a Dean and Marc single, the sax rocker "Boogie Woogie Twist" (parts 1 & 2). In 1964 the two brothers with Larry Henley regrouped as The Newbeats.