The Dolphins (1) (Brooklyn, New York)

 

Personnel :

Douglas Rivera (Lead)

Al Preta (First Tenor)

Joe Lentinello (Second Tenor)

Noel Musccianesi (Baritone)

Richie Cuffe (Bass)




Discography :

The Dolphins (1)
1960 - Tell Tale Kisses / I Found True Love (Shad 5020)

Dougie & The Dolphins (1)
1961 - Yesterday's Dreams / Double Date (Angle Tone 542)

Unreleased :
1960 - Exactly Like You (Demo)
1964 - Isle of Capri (Acap) (Practice Session)
1964 - Rags To Riches (Acap)  (Practice Session)
1966 - People Are Talking (Demo)
1966 - What Did Daddy Do (Acap) (Demo)
1966 - There Goes my love (Acap) (Demo)



Biography :

A group of neighborhood friends came together in the Red Hook-South Brooklyn section of Brooklyn in New York City to form the Dolphins in 1959. The Members are Douglas Rivera (Lead), Al Preta (First tenor), Joe Lentinello (Second Tenor), Noel Musccianesi (Baritone), Richie Cuffe (Bass).



They made a connection with the Shad Label through their manager Paul Cappolino. he was the uncle of the famous guitar duo Santo & Johnny Farina who scored several slide guitar instrumental hits for the Canadian American Label.

Bobby Shad put Mickey "Guitar" Baker in charge of the arrangements and production of their session, recorded at Capitol Studios in New York on 19 April 1960.  A 32 piece orchestra, that included 16 violins, was used for the songs "Tell Tale Kisses" and "I Found True Love", which were issued as Shad 5020 on 11 August 1960.

When this release just missed charting, the group went to the Angle Tone label where they recorded under the name Dougie & The Dolphins in 1961.

Songs :
(updated by Hans-Joachim)

The Dolphins (1)


Tell Tale Kisses / I Found True Love (Shad 5020)

Dougie & The Dolphins (1)

  
Yesterday's Dreams                            Double Date


  
       Exactly Like You                    Isle Of Capri / Rags To Riches

  
             People Are Talking          There Goes My Love / What Did Daddy Do

 
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Yvonne Bushnell 

Lady Fox & The Foxettes (Philadelphia, PA)

Personnel :

Betty "Lady" Fox (Lead)

Yvonne Bushnell

Liz Grant

Discography :

Lady Fox & The Foxettes
1962 - I Think Of You / Our Love (Will Never Grow Cold) (Don-El 114)

Lady Fox bb The Foxettes
Single:
1962 - It Must Be Love / How Are You (Comment allez-vous) (Don-El 118)
Unreleased :
1962 - Adios, Goodbye to Love (Don-El)
1962 - Our Love Will Never Grow Cold (Don-El)

Biography :

Producer Wally Osborne is not a household name, even to students of Philadelphia soul, but he did involve himself in numerous Philly soul records, as producer, songwriter, and musician. In 1962, he Produced Lady Fox & The Foxettes. Lady Fox’s name was really Betty Fox. Her husband’s name was Hubert Fox.

  
                                                               The Jaynetts :  Lezli Valentine, Yvonne Bushnell & Ethel Davis

The other two girls were Yvonne Bushnell and Liz Grant. Yvonne Bushnell came out of the Jaynetts “Sally Go ‘Round The Roses”. She lived in Philly then but had come from the Jaynetts. She later married (well known music columnist) Masco Young. Their two singles Was released on Don El records in 1962 . Don El records Founded by C. Percy White [aka Don White] . Their songs went nowhere and the group disbanded in 1962.

Songs :
(updated by Hans-Joachim) 

  
I Think Of You              Our Love (Will Never Grow Cold)
 

It Must Be Love / How Are You (Comment-Alles-Vous)


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The Twisters (2) / The Rivingtons 

Sammy Turner & The Twisters (2) (Los Angeles)

aka

The Rivingtons
The Four After Fives
The Crenshaws
The Sharps (1)  
The Ebbtides (3)

The  Friends (3)

Personnel :

Sammy Turner (Lead)

Carl White (Tenor)

Al Frazier (Tenor)

Sonny Harris (Baritone)

Turner "Rocky" Wilson Jr (Bass)

Discography :

1959 - Sweet Annie Laurie / Thunderbolt (Big Top 3007)

Biography :

Sammy Turner, born Samuel Black in 1932, grew up in Paterson, New Jersey and developed an interest in singing and songwriting at an early age. When the Korean War began in 1950 he put his dreams on hold and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, later serving active duty as a paratrooper. Afterwards Sammy returned to Jersey and worked as an accounting clerk, moonlighting on weekends as a nightclub singer.

 
Sammy Turner                                                                                          

He was spotted by longtime record promoter and music manager Herb Lutz, who was looking for a guy who could pull off some of the old standards Herb had loved and, in some cases, helped develop the first time around. Atlantic Records showed some interest, but Bienstock offered a better percentage and Sammy turned up on Bigtop's doorstep. Either way, he wouldn't have missed out on working with hitmakers Leiber and Stoller.

   
The Twisters (2)                                                                     Sammy Turner

For his first release, the label matched him with an R&B studio group that had already used a few different names including The Lamplighters and The Sharps; at the time, the quartet consisted of Carl White, Al Frazier, Sonny Harris and Rocky Wilson. The five-man team, with Sammy Black-turned-Turner its lead singer, tackled "Annie Laurie," an 18th century poem written William Douglas with a melody by Alicia Scott that had been a hit in 1910 for Irish tenor John McCormack.

Nearly five decades later, the melody had been updated by songwriter Rita Murphy, the titled was expanded to "Sweet Annie Laurie" and the resultant Leiber-Stoller production by Sammy Turner and the Twisters made an ever-so-brief chart appearance in March of '59. Afterwards Sammy was strictly a solo act and the Twisters went on to have their greatest success in the '60s as the "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow"-in' Rivingtons.

Songs :

  
Sweet Annie Laurie                           Thunderbolt   

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‪Wade Flemons ‬&‪ ‬T‪he Newcomer‬s (Battle Creek, Michigan)

Personnel :

Wade Flemons (Lead)

Lou Wilson

James Kelley

Ed Horsley

Lewis Grave

Discography :

1958 -  Here I Stand / ‪My Baby likes ‬T‪o Rock‬ (Vee Jay 215) 

Biography :

Wade Herbert Flemons was born on September 25, 1940 in Coffeyville, Kansas. Raised to the west in Wichita, Flemons took to singing, first in his local church choir and later in various gospel groups. Flemons moved with his parents to Battle Creek, Michigan in 1955. While attending Battle Creek Central High, he formed a vocal group called The Shifters, for whom he composed material during a series of lessons he undertook on the piano.

Lou Wilson                                                James Kelley                                         Ed Horsley

The Shifters were composed of Lou Wilson, James Kelley, Ed Horsley, and Lewis Grave. By June 1958, The Shifters were rehearsed and competent enough to travel west to Kalamazoo and cut a demonstration record. The tune The Shifters had elected to record was "Here I stand," a song Flemons had authored himself. A copy was sent to James and Vivian Carter-Bracken at Vee Jay Records. Vee Jay liked "Here I stand." Having the group change names to the less furtive Newcomers, they signed them up in July.

Under A & R man Calvin Carter's supervision, Wade Flemons and the Newcomers cut "Here I stand,' backed with "The (My) baby likes to rock ». By October 1958, "Here I stand" was ringing up large sales alongside Jimmy Reed's "Odds & ends" with which publicist Barbara J. Gardner plugged its potential. Vee Jay's General Manager Ewart Abner bragged to Billboard Magazine that his man Flemons was headed for the top.

A tour of the Eastern seaboard (Flemons' first professional engagement) was set up to begin on Christmas Eve. Packed off to Pittsburgh to publicize his tour, Flemons hooked up with deejays who opened a mike and gave him a welcome spot on the air. "Here I stand" eventually climbed to #19 on the R & B charts. Upon returning from his Eastern tour, Flemons was rushed into Chicago's Universal Recording Studios to cut Otis Blackwell's "Hold me close" and "You'll remain forever." Blackwell, among reams of credentials, first recorded with Bud Johnson on Victor in 1952 and wrote songs for Elvis Presley, among other luminaries.

Influenced by singers like Nat Cole and Roy Hamilton, Flemons chose to sing in a smooth, infectious way, drifting into a more dramatic style only when the song demanded it. It seems that by now, The Newcomers, no longer newcomers, were gone although their presence could possibly be manifest on two songs from Flemons' album (Vee Jay 1011) released in early 1960, "Don't be careless" and "Purposely."
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Songs :

Wade Flemons ‬&‪ ‬T‪he Newcomer‬s

  
Here I Stand                    My Baby likes To Rock

Wade Flemons ‬bb‪ ‬T‪he Newcomer‬s ???

  
Don't Be Careless                             Purposely



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