Harry & The Keyavas

Harry & The Keyavas (Rahway, New Jersey)

Personnel :

Harry Starr (Lead)

Jerry Timmons

Kevin Garrity

Discography :

Harry & The Keyavas
1963 - If This Is Goodbye / Tears (IPG 1011)

Harry Starr
1966 - Step Into My World / Another Time, Another Place (End 1129)

Biography :

C&M Records from Elizabeth,N.J. were a label owned by Castino Queen and Mary Linkowitch (also owners of Wanger Records). The C&M label was just beginning but was about to sign a young black group from Elizabeth called the Nobletones . C&M Records was a small outfit so they worked out of a storefront and these kids happened to be from the neighbourhood and they went in and he recorded them first.   

Among the Nobletones was Jerry Timmons, who a few years later would again register for C&M as a member of the Keyavas. They recorded two great doo-wop : "If This Is Goodbye" b/w "Tears" as Harry & The Keyavas. Lead singer Harry Starr`s real name was Harrison William Pennington and he was married to Eller Weas Little, aka Elouise Pennington from the Spellbinders. In 1966 Harry Starr recorded "Step Into My World" b/w "Another Time, Another Place" for the End label.

Songs :

Harry & The Keyavas

   
  If This Is Goodbye                                        Tears      

Harry Starr

   
Another Time, Another Place                         Step Into My World 

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