Lost song found at Bridgeport estate sale finally released decades later

A song called "You're My Everything" was recorded in Bridgeport in the 1970s. After taking two years to find the right equipment to play it on, Chris Ruggiero remixed the tracks and got the song to Connecticut native Eothen Alapatt at Now Again Records in Los Angeles.

Mark Sudol

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Oct 17, 2025, 4:01 PM

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Updated 13 hr ago

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When a man walked into a Bridgeport estate sale, he had no idea that what he found would bring back the soulful sounds of a musician who died 15 years ago.

A song called "You're My Everything" was recorded in Bridgeport in the 1970s.

Chris Ruggiero bought it for a buck at an estate sale for Bridgeport record producer Salvatore DeBenedetto, who recorded the song.

"It was just really incredible. You know like dark groovy soulful with this really interesting, unusual you know guitar figure, and I was just totally mesmerized. It was the best find of a tape that I'd had in many many years," said Ruggiero.

After taking two years to find the right equipment to play it on, Ruggiero remixed the tracks and got the song to Connecticut native Eothen Alapatt at Now Again Records in Los Angeles.

"It has like this sort of groovy James Gatz and Bill Withers type beat. You know he's doing this real nasally falsetto," said Alapatt.

But after some research they realized the artist on this lost-never released-treasure, Bonnie Floyd, was dead.

"When Chris found the reel, I said we kind of have to find Bonnie's heirs. You can't just put this out because you bought a reel from somebody," said Alapatt.

Ruggiero did his homework and found one of Bonnie Floyd's kids and got permission to release the song.

DeBenedetto's daughter Diane remembers seeing Bonnie Floyd and his group the Untouchables when she was a little girl.

"He was just a very kind man nice man," said DeBenedetto.

Diane says these old studios at Bennett Enterprises once recorded some of the biggest names in music.

"Cyndi Lauper, Billy Joel, Mary J. Blige, Stevie Wonder was a staple and so many many many more," said DeBenedetto.

Diane was stunned when she heard this Bonnie Floyd song was found and could live again.

"Something that you thought was gone forever in the dust to get a phone call and say it's coming out on an LP that's amazing," said DeBenedetto.

Now Again Records finally released Bonnie Floyd's long-lost song in January in a compilation called More Loving on the Flip side.

"That Bonnie Floyd song was the lynch pin of it all," said Alapatt.

Floyd died in New London in 2010 at the age of 70.

But he may be remembered for a song no one thought would ever be heard again.

"It's been really exciting to see the track finally get out there and find an audience and you know it said it's an amazing piece of music. It's a fantastic recording and I'm really glad to be part of getting this out there finally," said Ruggiero.

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