Stan Vincent

Stan Vincent (Brooklyn, New York)
& The Del-Satins
& The Young Lads (2)

Personnel :

Stan Vincent (Lead)

The Del-Satins

The Young Lads (2)

Discography :

Stan Vincent & The Del-Satins
Single:
1961 - She's So Wonderful / Please Be Mine (Comet 2147)
Unreleased :
1961 - Angel By My Side
1961 - She's Not Around Anymore

Stan Vincent bb The Young Lads (2)
1963 - Hot Fudge Sundaes and Pizza Pies / The World Is Round (Felice 711)

Biography :

Stan Vincent (born Stanley Crochowski, 1944) is an American record producer/arranger best known for the Top Ten hits "I'm Gonna Make You Mine" by Lou Christie and "O-o-h Child" by Five Stairsteps. He is also a composer notably having written "O-o-h Child" and several songs recorded by Connie Francis. Stan Vincent also assisted in the making of the 1980 Double Fantasy album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. A child actor under his birth name of Stanley Crochowski, playing Jimmy on the Chicago-based NBC-TV Saturday morning educational series Watch Mr. Wizard, Stan Vincent began his music industry career as a teenager working as a gofer at the Brooklyn-based offices of Jim Gribble who managed several doo-wop groups including the Mystics and the Passions, sometimes assisting on the recordings on Gribble's clients:.

   
    The Del-Satins                                                                                         Stan Vincent

by 1959 Vincent was himself recording his output including two singles backed by the Del Satins. Vincent's releases were overlooked but a recording he produced for the Del Satins of his composition "Teardrops Follow Me" became a regional success in the summer of 1962 and Vincent was afforded his first major success as the producer of the Earls hit "Remember Then" recorded in 1962 which reached #24 in January 1963. The Same year , The Young Lads  released their first record on Felice Records entitled "Night After Night". and uring the session, the Young Lads backed Stan Vincent on "Hot Fudge Sundaes and Pizza Pies" b/w "The World Is Round". Still in 1963, Stan Vincent became the manager of The Majestic lads and composed "Pledge Of A Fool" and "Don't Go Away (Pretty Little Girl)". Stan Vincent changed the original name by The Barons.

  
Stan Vincent                                                                                       The Young Lads                    

Vincent had several songs recorded by Connie Francis, notably her hit singles "Drownin' My Sorrows" (1963) and "Looking For Love" (1964), the latter being the title song for a cinematic vehicle for Francis - see Looking for Love - in which she sang two other Vincent compositions: "Let's Have a Party" and "When the Clock Strikes Midnight". Francis also recorded the Stan Vincent compositions "Lollipop Lips", "Whatever Happened to Rosemarie" and "Tommy" to serve as the B-sides to her hits "If My Pillow Could Talk" (1962)"Your Other Love" (1963), and "Be Anything (but Be Mine)" (1963). The compositions which Vincent placed with Francis were all co-written with Hank Hunter.

Songs :

Stan Vincent & The Del-Satins

   
She's So Wonderful                                 Please Be Mine

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Janice Green

Janice Green bb The Crescendos (3) (Nashville, TN.)



Personnel :


Janice Green (Lead)

The Crescendos (3)
George Lanius
Kenneth Brigham
Jim Lanius
Jimmy Hall
Tommy Fortner

Biography :

Formed in 1957 by five men who attended Cumberland High School in Nashville, the Crescendos succeeded with the song "Oh Julie". The record sold over one million copies, earning a gold disc. The Crescendos were recorded by the independent Nashville production company, Nu-Star, owned by Noel Ball and Ken Moffett .

 
Cash Box March 15, 1958                                                                                                       

Ball was a disc jockey on Radio WSIX and had the only rock'n'roll show in Nashwville.  Moffett came into music via a day-time job with the Genesco shoe company. Moffett and Ball spent all one Sunday recording the song, and nothing was happening until Moffett came up with the idea of adding à high-flying repetitive girl voice - that of 16-year old Janice Green, who by chance was present in the studio with her parents for an audition.

Janice with The Crescendos (3)

Janice came from Inglewood, East Nashville and later recorded one solo single for Nasco as "The Oh Julie Girl" (6013) with the Crescendos in support. Her haunting background chant on ‘Oh Julie’ was the unique gimmick which lifted the recording into an exalted realm.

Songs :

Janice Green bb The Crescendos (3)

  
 Jackie                                          With All my heart

The Crescendos (3)


Oh Julie


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The Supremes Four  (Milwaukee Wisconsin)

Personnel :

Phillip Green

Lovelace Redmond

Homer Walton

Carl Campbell

Discography :

1961 - I Love You, Patricia / I Lost My Job And I've Got To Find Another (Sara 1032)

Biography :

"Love You Patricia" by The Supremes Four appeared in 1961 on the B-side of "l Lost My Job", a very belated and ultimately futile answer to the Silhouettes’ 1958 chartmaker ‘Get A Job’. Jay Albrent , a rep for Cuca's Chicago distributor, brought them in to record. This outstanding lone release by the Milwaukee quartet comprising Lovelace Redmond, Homer Wäalton, Carl Campbell and Phil Green, was the first to appear on Kirchstein's Sara logo. (Sara releases were incorporated within the same numerical sequence as Cuca.) Redmond & Campbell had a 70s 45 as Those Two on Melic.

Songs :

  
I Love You, Patricia                                      I Lost My Job       

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The Victorials (Cincinnati, OH.)
Ref :The Emeralds (1)

Personnel :

Harold Davis (Lead)

Sedrick Cox (First Tenor)

Charles Godfrey (Second Tenor)

Willis Miller (Baritone)

Clyde Giles (Bass)

Discography :

1956 - I Get That Feeling / Prettiest Girl In The World (Imperial 5398)

Biography :

Harold Edward "Hal" Davis (February 8, 1933 — November 18, 1998) was an American songwriter and record producer. He is best remembered as the key figure in the latter part of the Motown career of The Jackson 5. Davis was the co-writer and producer of Jackson 5 hits such as "I'll Be There" and "Dancing Machine," and Eddie Kendricks' "Can I". Davis also produced for Bette Midler (her Motown record of 1975, produced by Davis, was never released), Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, The Supremes, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Brenda Holloway, Thelma Houston, Joy Holden, Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Marvin Gaye, Little Stevie Wonder, Four Tops, Junior Walker, and The Miracles.

Marc Gordon, Marvin Gaye & Hal Davis in Motown's studios

Back in the mid 50’, At the end of 1955, Hal Davis joined some neighborhood friends, Willis Miller, Clyde Giles and Sedrick Cox. The three fellows were part of Luther Bond & the Emeralds and have recorded three singles for the Savoy Label. With the addition of Charles Godfrey, they named themselves the Victorials after the car (Ford Crown Victoria). DJ: Charles "Bugs" Scruggs of WCIN managed the group for about eight months and recorded some demos at the station. 

   
                                   Charles "Bugs" Scruggs                             Charles Godfrey, Willis Miller, Harold Davis, Sedrick Cox & Clyde Giles                                                                                       
Scruggs sent the demos to Imperial Records. Imperial responded by sending pianist Ernie Freeman to Cincinnati to hire some pick-up musicians and oversee a recording session. The Victorials cut "I Get That Feeling" and "The Prettiest Girl In The World" written by Scruggs & Davis.  The record released in July went nowhere and the Victorials decided to call it a day, breaking up after about a year in existence.
http://www.uncamarvy.com/Emeralds/emeralds.html

Songs :
(updated by Hans-Joachim) 

  
    I Get That Feeling                          Prettiest Girl In The World

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The Big Five (Cleveland, Ohio)
aka The Fabulous Five Flames aka The Fabulous Five aka The Fabulous Flames (1)

Personnel :

Otis Carter

Harvey Hall

David McPhatter

Richard Fisher

Ernest Smith

Discography:

The Big Five
1958 - Wob-Ding-A-Ling / Baby, I Need You So (Junior 5000)
1960 - Blue Eyes / Stardust In Her Eyes (Shad 5019)

The Fabulous Flames  (1)
1958 - Josephine / My Joan (Rex 3000)

The Fabulous Five
1960 - Janie Made A Monster / Gettin' Old (King 45-5220)

The Fabulous Five Flames
1960 - Lonely Lover / No More Tears (Time 1023)

Biography :

This Vocal group from Cleveland was known locally as The Fabulous Flames. The group included  J. C. Tatum, Otis Carter, David McFadden, Ernest Smith, and Harvey Hall. The group started while some of the members were students at East Technical High School. The group performed at local clubs, and in Detroit. Their first single "Wop Ding A Ling" (also Known as "Wab Ding A Ling") plus the flip "Baby, I Need You So" was issued on the Shad predecessor Junior label (Junior 5000) on 29 October 1958. Bobby Shad renamed The Fabulous Flames by The Big Five. Their second single "Josephine" b/w "My Joan " released as their original name (The Fabulous Flames) was a local production, done for the short lived Rex label. Bill Jacocks, a local entrepreneur, wrote the songs and helped get the record released. Jacocks later became known as Cleveland's first African-American TV news anchor, along with producting some records in the mid 1970s.

  
Bobby Shad                                                                                                                        

The group was known as the Fabulous Flames, but changed for The Fabulous Five for their third record for the King label to prevent confusion with other groups with that name. The song "Janie Made A Monster" is a classic R&B Halloween record. Richard Fisher replaced J. C. Tatum. Four sides were recorded at Capitol Studios in New York on 4 December 1959, "Lonely Lover", "No More Tears", "Blue Eyes" and "Stardust In Her Eyes". The first two will be released on the Time (/Shad) Label on April 1960 as The Fabulous Five Flames, and the next two were released on 10 June 1960 on Shad 5019 as The Big Five.  Richard Fisher was the brother of Jesse Fisher. He wasn't with the group for long as he left for New York where he ended up joining the Jive Five. Art Blakey replaced him, not long before the group disbanded. Harvey Hall - later known as Harvey Nickerson-Hall - went on to lead Harvey and the Phenomenals. https://www.buckeyebeat.com/

Songs :

The Big Five

  
Wob-Ding-A-Ling                               Baby, I Need You So

  
      Blue Eyes                                     Stardust In Her Eyes

The Fabulous Flames  (1)

  
Josephine                                             My Joan

The Fabulous Five

  
Janie Made A Monster                            Gettin' Old       

The Fabulous Five Flames

  
Lonely Lover                                    No More Tears

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