L to R : Charles McLeod, Phil Smith, David Pullias, Hal McGlothlin, Jerry Haynes, Reford Schmitton & Billy Lyon
 

The Pages (Abilene, TX)



Personnel :

Hal McGlothlin (Vocal)

David Pullias (Vocal)

Phil Smith (Vocal)

Billy Lyon (Vocal)

Charles McLeod (Guitar)

Reford Schmitton (Guitar)

Edwin George (Sax Bass)


Discography :

The Pages
1958 - Donna Marie / Wind (Eagle 1005 / Don Tan 001)

Gene Morris & The Pages
1957 - Lovin Honey / I've Got A Love (Edmoral 1012/Vik 287)


Biography :

The Pages came together in the fall of 1956 and were different than most other ACC groups as they also included instrumentation. Group members included vocalists Hal McGlothlin, David Pullias, Phil Smith, and Billy Lyon, guitarists Charles McLeod and Reford Schmitton, and Edwin George on sax and "bass fiddle".

L to R : Reford Schmitton, Ed George, Billy Lyon, Phil Smith, Hal McGlothlin  and David Pullias

By early 1957 the group had managed enough local clout to be called on to back local rockabilly Gene Morris on his first trip in to a studio. In April of of 1957 Edmoral 1012 by Gene Morris with the Pages featuring "I've Got a Love" and "Lovin' Honey" was released.

In early 1958 the Pages were invited to Dallas for a recording session with Chuck Edwards of Eagle Records. The masters were quickly shipped to Monarch in LA. Released in the Spring of 1958, Eagle 1005 featured two compositions from Pages guitarist Charles McLeod "Donna Marie" b/w "Wind".

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Songs :

The Pages

  
Donna Marie                                                Wind


Gene Morris & The Pages

  
I've Got A Love                                 Lovin Honey



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The El-Lanos (New Haven, Conn.)
aka The Five Chestnuts
aka The Chestnuts (2)


Personnel :

Ruby Whittaker (Lead)

Lyman Hopkins (First tenor)

Frank Hopkins (Second Tenor)

Jimmy Curtis  (Baritone)

Reuben White (Bass)


Discography :

1989 - I Wonder Why / In Mexico (Crescent 200)



Biography :

"I Wonder Why" b/w " In Mexico" was an unreleased acetate who Stevie Dunham  purchased in New Haven, CT, in 1988. Probably recorded in 1956-57. It is speculated this group was the Five Chestnuts (Chestnuts) from New Haven, CT. Stevie Dunham's partners at the time did not want to use the Five Chestnuts on the issue of this 45  and left it up to steve to put a name to an acetate that only listed song titles but no group name. So he christened it The El-Lanos. The record was released on Crescent, in July of 1989.



Songs:
(updated by Hans-Joachim) 

I Wonder Why / In Mexico

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The Hamptones : Gonzales Garner, Stanley Mitchell, Joe Mars & Frank Holt

The Hamptones 

 
Personnel :

Stanley Mitchell

Gonzales Garner

Joe Mars

Frank Holt



Biography :

Stanley Mitchell  was born February 10th 1935 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Upon graduation from Highland Park High School in 1955, Stanley joined his first group the Cherokons. Through regular performances at local talent shows Of which they won their fair share the group was eventually brought to the attention of Lionel Hampton. Under the auspices of Hampton the group changed their name to the Hamptones. The other group members were Frank Holt, Joe Mars and Gonzales Gardner. In 1957 Stanley left the Hamptones to form his own group, Stanley Mitchell & the Tornados.

 
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The Playmates (2) (Newark, NJ.)
aka The Three Playmates
 

Personnel :

Gwen Brooks

Lucille Beatty

Alma Beatty

 

Discography :

The Playmates (2)
1957 - It Must Be Love / Giddy-Up-A-Ding-Dong ‎(Savoy 1523)   

The Three Playmates
1957 - Sugah Wooga / Lovey Dovey Pair (Savoy 1528)
1958 - Give Your Love To Me / (Do-oo, Do-oo) I Dreamed (Savoy 1537)

 

Biography :

The 3 girls from Newark, New Jersey (sisters Lucille and Alma Beatty and Gwen Brooks) only ever had 3 singles released in the late 1950s for Savoy Records, a label launched in Newark in 1942 by Herman Lubinsky, and had just one of them make any of the national charts. Their first release was the summer 1957 Giddy-Up-A-Ding-Dong (not the same song as one released with that title in 1956 by Freddie Bell & The Bell Boys for Mercury's Wing subsidiary) b/w It Must Be Love on Savoy 1523 billed as The Playmates (Alma, Gwen, Lucille). It failed to chart, although Savoy arranger Ernie Wilkins certainly provided them with quality backing, using tenor saxophonists Jerome Richardson and George Barrow, baritone saxophonist Budd Johnson, guitarist Kenny Burrell, pianist Sam Price, bassist Joe Benjamin and drummer Bobb Donaldson. They appeared on Savoy at the same time Roulette's guys put out their first single.

For their follow-up Sugah Wooga the label assembled tenor saxophonist Buddy Lucas, organist Bobby Banks, bassist Leonard Gaskin and an unidentified orchestra and this time, to avoid record store/juke box label confusion with the all-male quartet The Playmates, they were billed as The Three Playmates (Lucille, Alma, Gwen) and in March 1958 it peaked at # 89 Billboard Pop Top 100 on Savoy 1528 b/w Lovey Dovey Pair. For some reason, however, it made no impact whatsoever on the R&B charts despite the facts Savoy was designed mainly to appeal to that market and the arrangement was so close to that of the 1957 R&B/Pop smash Little Bitty Pretty One by Thurston Harris. Their only other single, also billed as The Three Playmates (Alma, Lucille, Gwen), was (Do-Oo, Do-Oo) I Dreamed b/w Give Your Love To Me on Savoy 1537 later in 1958 and, with the same backing musicians as their first effort (it was actually recorded in July 1957), it failed to chart.


Songs :
(updated by Hans-Joachim) 
 

The Playmates (2)

  
Giddy-Up-A-Ding-Dong                       It Must Be Love       
 
The Three Playmates

  
Lovey Dovey Pair                               Sugah Wooga

  
Give Your Love To Me                                  I Dreamed           


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Phil Spector, Rickie Page & Russ Titelman

The Spectors Three  (Los Angeles, CA)

Personnel :

Phil Spector (guitar, vocals)

Rickie Page (vocals)

Russ Titelman (guitar)


Discography :

1959 - I Really Do / I Know Why  (Trey 3001)
1960 - Mr. Robin  / My Heart Stood Still (Trey 3005)


Biography :

After the split of the Teddy Bears in 1959, Spector's career quickly moved from performing and songwriting to production. While recording the Teddy Bears's album, he had met Lester Sill, a former promotion man who was a mentor to Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. His next project, the Spectors Three, was undertaken under the aegis of Sill and his partner, Lee Hazlewood. The singers were a young musician friend called Russ Titelman, a female session singer named Ricky Page, and Spector himself; the backing track was minimal. Unable to use the Teddy Bears’name, he put out under the name of the Spectors Three.

When they lip-synched on a Los Angeles television show, there was no sign of Spector: Titelman was joined by his girlfriend, Annette Merar, and another friend, Warren Entner. The public, however, failed to be impressed, and it made no impression. The B- side, 'I Know Why', featured Phil's double-tracked vocal set against Page's ' heavenly' soprano wail. The record was released on Trey, a Hazlewood-Sill label distributed by Atlantic. The Spectors Three subsequently cut one more record, 'My Heart Stood Still', but that was a flop, too. It marked the end of Spector's career as a singer, although in 1959 he cut a pleasant instrumental called 'Bumbershoot', playing guitar with LA sessionmen, including an unimpressed Howard Roberts, for Imperial, under the name Phil Harvey.


Songs :

    
I Really Do                                       I Know Why

   
Mr. Robin                                       My Heart Stood Still     

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