When it comes to discographers, it is the real men who can tell the difference between Santo Pecora and Santo Pecoraro, especially considering the fact that the real name of the former artist is, like the latter, actually Santo Pecoraro. There is no confusion about their identities if the sounds of their instruments are compared, however. The slightly older player who edited his surname from Pecoraro to Pecora was a trombonist and bandleader whose versatility got him all the way out to the recording studio scene in Hollywood. Pecoraro was his nephew, a drummer, and all of four years younger.

In the final decades of Uncle Pecora's career, he mostly held forth in New Orleans at clubs such as The Dream Room and the Famous Door: locales where the drummer in the band was very well likely to be nephew Pecoraro. This pairing shows up on some recordings, yet the fame of either player never reached the proportion where anyone would be tempted to amend an additional verse to the George Gershwin classic, as in "You say Pecora and I say Pecoraro." The drummer also gigged with bandleaders Johnny Wiggs and Pete Fountain. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, Rovi