Carlo Mastrangelo, an original member of Dion and the Belmonts, whose baritone vocals undergirded the group's harmonies on a string of doo-wop hits like "No One Knows" and "A Teenager in Love," died on Monday in Boynton Beach, Fla. He was 78.

The cause was cancer, said Warren Gradus, a current member of the Belmonts. Mr. Mastrangelo grew up in a mostly Italian neighborhood around Arthur Avenue in the Bronx. He played drums, wrote songs and sang, often on street corners or in subway stations, with his Roosevelt High School classmates Angelo D'Aleo and Fred Milano.

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