Lerchey became the first White member of the all-Black group, now known as the Del Vikings (no hyphen), quietly making them one of the very first integrated rock groups - a handful had existed before, but none had reached national success.
When pilot David Lerchey was transferred in, Quick soon made him a second tenor who also filled in at baritone. In the next two years, they became known as one of the best vocal groups in the US military, even coming in second at the national Air Force talent show. The story of most Fifties doo-wop groups begins with neighborhood friends gathering around a corner streetlamp in the evening to sing, or classmates at a local public high school keeping busy after hours, but the story of the Del-Vikings is an Air Force one: all five original vocalists (plus Lopes working out accompaniment on guitar, not at all unusual for a vocal group) were stationed at Pittsburgh's Air Force Reserve Base, where Quick, Kripp, Don Jackson, and Samuel Patterson began singing as the Four Deuces.
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