The Royal Debs (Detroit, Michigan)

Personnel :

Joan

Evelyn

Mamie

Lazette



Discography :

Singles :
1962 - Jerry / I Do (Tifco 826)

Unreleased :
1962 - Be My Lover (Tifco)




Biography :

The Royal Debs are actually from Detroit, Michigan, They recorded five songs for James Newton.

James Newton — a banker who also owned a small Tifton (GA) label, Tifco Records
MagicalMusicMemories



Songs :

   
Jerry                                                  I Do

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Dicky Doo & The Don'ts (Philadelphia)
 (Update By Hans-Joachim)

Personnel :

Gerry Granaham "Dickey Doo" (Lead)

Harvey Davis (Bass)

Al Ways (Sax)

Ray Gangi (Guitar)

Dave Alldred (Drums)

Discography :

Singles :

Dickey Doo & The Don’ts
1957 - Click-Clack / Did You Cry (Swan 4001)

Dicky Doo & The Don’ts
1958 - Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu / Flip Top Box (Swan 4006)
1958 - Leave Me Alone (Let Me Cry) / Wild Party (Swan 4014)
1959 - Teardrops Will Fall / Come With Us (Swan 4025)
1959 - Ballad Of A Train / Dear Heart, Don't Cry (Swan 4033)
1960 - Wabash Cannonball / The Drums Of Richard A. Doo (Swan 4046)
1960 - Teen Scene / Pity, Pity  (UA 238)
1961 - The Judge / A Little Dog Cried (UA 362)
1961 - The Judge / Doo Plus Two (Danna 1001)
1965 - Click Clack '65 / Don't Count Me Out (Ascot 2178)

Lps :
1960 - Madison And Other Dances (UAL-3094 / UAS-6094)
The Big M, Part I (Madison) / What In The World's Comes Over You / Cha Cha Rooney / Ballin' The Jack / Do The Slop / Mashed Potatoes / The Big M, Part II (Madison) / Rock And Roll Waltz / Charleston / The Big Hurt / The Stroll / The Bop

1960 - Teen Scene (UAL-3097 / UAS-6097)
Footsteps / I Love The Way You Love / He'll Have To Go / Lady Luck / Vive L'amour / Midnight Special / Teen Scene / Wake Up Little Susie / Mr. Blue / Pity, Pity / Pretty Blue Eyes /Wild One

1961 - Live  at Eagle Rock Ski and Golf Club in Hazleton PA (Danna D1566)
Shake Rattle And Roll / Ain't That A Shame / Jenny Jenny / Kansa City / What I'd Say / Lucille / Allright OK You Win / Hully Gully / Saints Go Marching In / Nee Nee Na Na Nu Nu / Can't Sit Down

Biography :

Dickey Doo & the Dont's started out as a joke with a purpose. Gerry Granahan, a producer, songwriter, and performer needed an alias under which he could release his newest record without getting into legal trouble with another record label to which he was already under contract and the alias turned into a successful recording act.

Granahan, born in Pittston, PA, was a musician and singer who'd handled demos for Hill & Range aimed at Elvis Presley. Signed to Sunbeam Records in 1957, he had a hit in mid-1958 with "No Chemise Please," a novelty song that got to number 23 on the Billboard chart.

His next four singles stiffed, but then he found himself with a song that seemed like a certain hit, "Click Clack," and a label -- Swan Records of Philadelphia -- that wanted to release it; moreover, with Swan behind it, the label's silent partner, Dick Clark, would give it a boost on the local version of his daily music showcase, American Bandstand, thus ensuring it had every chance to become a hit.

Granahan's different contractual relationships, with Sunbeam and an earlier contract with Atlantic, however, made it risky for him to release anything with Swan, at least under his own name. Thus were born Dickey Doo & the Dont's, a mythical act whose name would be attached to the song "Click Clack." Swan partner Tony Mammarella suggested the name Dickey Doo & the Dont's as an "in" joke that obliquely referred to Clark's secret involvement with Swan.

The song broke out gradually and rose to number 28 during a three-and-a-half-month run. With a hit behind him, Granahan now faced another problem: coming up with a group to appear as Dickey Doo & the Dont's. He recruited a quartet -- Harvey Davis (bass), Al Ways (sax), Ray Gangi (guitar), and Dave Alldred (drums) -- to back him as Dickey Doo & the Dont's; Granahan was referred to on their recordings as Richard A. Doo.

The quintet proved extremely popular in concert and charted more singles, including "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu," "Leave Me Alone," and "Teardrops Will Fall," over the next year and a half. By the 1960s, the group had left Swan and moved to the United Artists label, where they cut two albums and remained under contract until 1965.

Granahan continued his extensive activities as a producer during this period, working with the music of the Angels and Patty Duke, among others.
http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/dickydoo_donts.htm
http://www.ripopmusic.org/musical-artists/musicians/gerry-granahan
http:// www.toddbaptista.com/gerry granahan.html
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gerry-granahan-mn0000542386/biography

Songs :

     
Click-Clack                          Did You Cry               Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu

     
Flip Top Box                    Leave Me Alone (Let Me Cry)               Wild Party

     
Teardrops Will Fall                         Come With Us          Wabash Cannonball / The Drums Of Richard A. Doo

     
Teen Scene                 The Judge / A Little Dog Cried              Doo Plus Two

  
Don’t Count Me Out

Complete Album

  
Madison And Other Dances                     Teen Scene

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Tippie & The Wisemen

Tippie & The Clovermen (Washington, D.C)
aka The Clovers (2) aka The Wisemen

Personnel :

Harold Lucas

Robert Russell

Roosevelt "Tippie" Hubbard

James "Toy" Walton

Discography :

Tippie & The Clovermen
1962 -  Please Mr. Sun / Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (Stenton 7001)

Tippie & The Clovers (2)
1962 - Bossa Nova, Baby / The Bossa Nova (My Heart Said) (Tiger 201)

Tippie & The Wisemen
Unreleased :
1965 - Wait Till I Get There (Shrine)
1965 - Let Me Walk Away (Shrine)
1965 - I Wouldn't Mind Crying (Shrine)
1965 - Bye, Bye (Shrine)

Biography :

The Clovers, who hailed from the Washington area, had been recording since 1950; by 1961 the group had split and reformed as two separate Clovers, one led by Harold Lucas the other by John Bailey.  The line-up of the Lucas group was Robert Russel, James “Toy” Walton and Eddie “Tippie” Hubbard.  The Lucas group recorded and released records as "Tippie and the Clovermen" and "Tippie and the Clovers" for Tiger Records, a subsidiary of Rust Records.

   
Harold Lucas                                                                                                                                  

In December 1962 "Bossa Nova Baby" (written by Leiber and Stoller) / "The Bossa Nova" was released, credited to Tippie and the Clovers. Also released in 1962 on Stenton Records was "Please Mr Sun" / "Gimme Gimme Gimme", credited to Tippie and the Clovermen.  In 1965, Harold Lucas, Robert Russell, Tippie Hubbard and Toy Walton added a fifth member, Al Fox. The group recorded four tracks (all unreleased) as "Tippie and The Wisemen" for Shrine Records. That same year Tippie and The Wisemen changed their name to The Clovers.

Discography :

Tippie & The Clovermen

  
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme                           Please Mr. Sun     

Tippie & The Clovers (2)

  
      Bossa Nova, Baby                     The Bossa Nova (My Heart Said)

Tippie & The Wisemen

  
I Wouldn't Mind Crying                            Wait Till I Get There 


Let Me Walk Away

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The Keynotes (1) (Harlem, New York)

Personnel :

Floyd Adams (Lead)

Howard Anderson (First Tenor)

Roger Lee (Second Tenor)

Larry "Spanky" Carter (Baritone)

Tucker Class (Bass)

Discography :

Singles :
1955 - Suddenly / Zenda (Apollo 478)

1955 - I Don't Know / A Star  (Apollo 484)

1956 - Really Wish You Were Here / Bye Bye Baby (Apollo 493)
1956 - Now I Know / Zup Zup (Apollo 498)
1956 - In The Evening / O Yeah Hm-m-m  (Apollo 503)
1957 - One Little Kiss / Now I Know (Apollo 513)

Unreleased:
N/A - Early one morning (Relic LP 5080)

N/A - Chapel bells are ringing (Relic LP 5080)

N/A - Tell me you love me (Relic LP 5080)

N/A - Surely (Apollo LP 1000/Relic LP 5072)

N/A - Zoop zoop (darling i love you) (Apollo LP 1000/Relic LP 5072)

N/A - Girl in the chapel (Apollo LP 1000/Relic LP 5072)

Biography :

The Keynotes, emerged from ll5th Street in l954. Although it is rumored that they were singing the street song "Lily Maebelle", their first record for Apollo was "Zenda"/ "Suddenly". Later in 1955, they had a local New York rocker, "I Don't Know," that hit on the R&B stations. It featured Sam "The Man" Taylor on tenor horn and Mickey "Guitar" Baker.

 The first two records were led by Floyd Adams, who was rumored to be the lead of another Apollo group, The Inspirations ("Raindrops"/ "Maggie").  Adams stayed on to do two more groovie rockers, "Bye Bye Baby" and "Really Wish You Were " until he was replaced by the more dynamic tenor, Sam Kearney, who led "In The Evening" and two different versions of the calypso-blues-rock "Now I Know".

  
Floyd Adams (Lead): (l-r) :Howard Anderson, Roger Lee , Larry "Spanky" Carter, Tucker Class

 The Keynotes were the prototype New York Street group. They may have had as many as ten members who recorded for the fun of it, singing well but never making it big. They were subjected to the same tragic results, limited success and nonrecognition, as their uptown brothers, The Vocaltones.
http://www.vocalgroupharmony.com/4ROWNEW/IDontKnow.htm

Movies :


I Don't Know

Songs :
 (Update By Hans-Joachim)

 
    
Bye Bye Baby                       One Little Kiss                   Surely

   
Really Wish You Were Here             A Star                       I Don't Know

     
Zenda                                Now I Know                             Zup Zup

     
In The Evening            Oh, Yeah! Hm-M-M         Zoop Zoop (Darling I Love You)

     
A star (acapella)                        Early One Morning (acapella)              Chapel Bells Are Ringing (acapella)

     
Tell Me You Love Me (acapella)           Girl In The Chapel (acapella)           I Don't Know (acapella)


I Don't Know Why (unrel. alt.vers.)

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Lenny Davis & The Megatones (Dayton, OH)




Personnel :

Lenny Davis (Lead Vocal)

Hank Garland (Guitar)

Grady Martin (Guitar)

Pete Drake (Guitar)

Hargus "Pig" Robbins (Piano)

Mary (Vocal)

Discography:

Lenny Davis & The Megatones
1962 - The Beginning And Not The End / My Only Girl (One Night) (Prism 1003/4)

Lenny Davis
1961 - Satan's Got You (By The Hand) / Sing, Little Bluebird  (Do-Ra-Me 1413)

Biography :

Singer, Lenny Davis Cut one single with two nice doo wop in 1962 for Prism Records. The single was recorded in Nashville at the Murry Nash Studio with Nashville studio musicians who performed with Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison and many others..

Some of the musicians on the two sessions were Hank Garland, Grady Martin, Pete Drake , Hargus "Pig" Robbins on piano and a blind vocalist named Mary.

Songs :

Lenny Davis & The Megatones

  
             My Only Girl                        The Beginning And Not The End

Lenny Davis


 Satan's Got You (By The Hand)

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