Marsha Raskin

The Blends (2) (Los Angeles, CA.)

Personnel:

Leonard Lebovitz "Lenny Lee" (Lead)

Marsha Raskin (High Tenor)

Barry Fisher (Tenor)

Stan Fisher (Tenor)

Larry Coleman (Bass)

Discography :

The Blends (2)
1960 - Tell Me / The Way I Want You (Skylark 108/Talent 110)

Johnny Sablan bb The Blends (2)
1961 - Will She Agree To Go Steady / Big Fat Lie (Not Them) (Skylark 105)

Biography :

Vocal group from Los Angeles .  Marsha Raskin (High Tenor), Barry Fisher (Tenor) and Leonard Lebovitz "Lenny Lee" (Lead), present Student, and two Alumni Larry Coleman (Bass) and Stan Fisher (Tenor) comprise the group. In 1960, The Blends met promotion manager for Talent and Skylark records, Sy Mitchell. The group auditioned and recorded  "Tell Me" b/w "The Way I Want You" released By Talent in November 1960.

   
                                                                                                               Johnny Sablan

The single was re-released in 1961 on Skylark where the Blends have backed 13-year-old Johnny Sablan on "Will She Agree To Go Steady". Johnny Sablan from the Mariana's island of Guam and moved to southern California, along with his three eldest sons when his father took a job in the City. The Sablans lived right off of Wilshire and Western Avenues in Los Angeles, and watched the era of rock and roll unfold with Ricky Nelson and Elvis Presley singing on the popular American Bandstand TV show. Teen-age guitarist and vocalist,  he wrote "Will She Agree To Go Steady" Which will be his first disc.


 Songs :

                  The Blends (2)                  Johnny Sablan bb The Blends (2)

  
                Tell Me                                Will She Agree To Go Steady



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L to R : Melvin Peters, George Goodman and Rodney Williams.

George Goodman & The Headliners (2)  (Pittsburgh, PA.)

Personnel :

Rodney Williams (Lead)

George Goodman (Baritone)

Melvin Peters (Tenor)

Discography :

George Goodman And His Headliners (2)
1964 - Let Me Love You / Let Me Love You (Inst.) (Val 1/WB 5632)
1964 - Starlight And Moonbeams / I'm So Tired (Val 3)

George Goodman's Headliners (2)
1964 - I'll Cherish Your Love / Secret Love (Val 5)

George Goodman & The Headliners (2)
1966 - Need You / Starlight And Moonbeams  (Val 6)

The Headliners (2)
1966 - Let Me Love You /I'm So Tired (Val 1000)

Biography :

From Doo Wop To Soul. Vocal group from Pittsburgh composed by George Goodman (baritone), Rodney Williams (lead) and Melvin Peters (tenor). In 1964, they  recorded "Let Me Love You", a wonderful ballad who sold over 100,000 copies and a Number 1 record in Pittsburgh and Baltimore. The record was first released in 1964 on Sharpsburg's Val label (#1), credited to George Goodman & His Headliners, and reissued a couple of times. (Val Records was local label operated by florist Augie Bernardi.) It was released again on Warner Brothers in 1965 (#5632), and pressed again by A&M (#1011) in 1968 under The Headliners. It became a huge regional hit but never charted nationally.

   

In fact, the group had a little cottage industry going on with the label for a brief spell and was Val's big act. Goodman was also heavily into the industry side, producing, distributing, and promoting records. George Goodman, from the Hill District, got his start in the mid 60's working for Herbie Cohen's Fenway Distributors on Fifth Avenue, Uptown. He was very involved in distributing and promoting R & B records for them and helped break Charlie and Inez Foxx's "Mockingbird" on Sue Records. Melvin Peters started his career with The Five Mellows, and also worked with the Del Vikings and Marcels. In the early 1960's, he joined Chuck Jackson and the Motown group The Originals. Then it was back home as a Headliner. He spent the seventies working with Solid Gold, Flashback, and the Katch.
http://oldmonmusic.blogspot.fr/2009/07/george-goodman-and-headliners.html

Songs :

  
    Let Me Love You                           Starlight And Moonbeams

  
    I'm So Tired                                 I'll Cherish Your Love

  
 Secret Love                                       Need You

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The Canjoes (New York)

Personnel :

Joe Louis Johnson (Lou Johnson)

Theresa Cleveland

Ann Gissendanner

Discography :

1961 - Speaking Of Love / Dance The Boomerang (Featuring Joe Louis Johnson) (Dapt 208)

Biography :

Lou Johnson (born 1941 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American soul singer and pianist who was active as a recording artist in the 1960s and early 1970s. Coming from a musical family, he started singing in gospel choirs in his teens, before studying music at Brooklyn College. He learned keyboards and percussion, forming a gospel group, the Zionettes, who recorded for Simpson Records and achieved some local success. Johnson then formed a secular vocal group, the Canjoes, with Tresia Cleveland and Ann Gissendammer. They signed to the New York, Amy/Bell/Mala affiliated DAPT label. The partnership saw the release of one single 'Dance the Boomerang' b/w 'Speaking of Love (Dapt 208) before Johnson struck out in pursuit of a solo career.  . The single was also released on Dapt D-208 with the spelling The Coanjos featuring Joe Louis Johnson b/w he Coanjos.

   
                                                                                     Lou Johnson

Cleveland and Giessendanner continued their partnership, reappearing as The Soul Sisters.  A one-shot single on Guyden was followed by a move to Sue Records. In 1962, Johnson signed as a solo singer with Bigtop Records, run by the Hill & Range music publishing company in the Brill Building. There, he met the songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, who wrote Johnson's first single, "If I Never Get to Love You". Neither that song nor his second record, "You Better Let Him Go", were hits, but his third single, "Reach Out for Me", also written by Bacharach and David and this time produced by Bacharach, reached # 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1963.

Songs :

  
Dance The Boomerang                      Speaking Of Love     

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Roger Gerbino, Ray Forte, Shorty Johnson & Fred Morabito

The Velvetones (7) (New York)

Personnel :

Ray Forte

Roger Gerbino

Shorty Johnson

Fred Morabito

Discography :

Unreleased :
1963 - Tell Me
1963 - Pretty Girl

Songs :

  
Tell Me                                                  Pretty Girl

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The Note-Ables (Toronto, Canada)

Personnel :

Keith Nowell

Rich

Don

Barth

Have they recorded ??? 

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