The Corals (3) (Jersey City)

Personnel :

Linda Kirkland

Marie Poole

Daisy Yarbrough

Thelma Yarbrough

Discography :

1962 - My Best Friend / Dancin' & Cryin' (Rayna 5010 / Kram 1001)
1962 - The Puppet / Tell Me Yes (Tell Me No) (Blackbird 4004 / Cheer 1001]

Biography :

In 1962, agent Michael Amato from Jersey City who discovered "Ronnie & The Hi-Lites" have a new group, The Corals. Te group consists of Linda Kirkland; 16, Marie Poole, 16, and sisters Daisy, 13, and Thelma Yarbrough. The girls all attend Ferris High. The Corals released "My Best Friend" b/w "Dancin' & Cryin'" first on Kram (1962). The same songs were re-issued on Rayna the same year. They also did "Puppet" on Blackbird that year, which was re-issued on Cheer. New York City labels. Their records was produced by Hal Wess whose wife wrote all the songs.

Songs :

  
My Best Friend                             Dancin' & Cryin'

  
The Puppet                                    Tell Me Yes

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Anthony Antonelli, Jim Grote, Jimmy Amatullo and Johnny Antonelli

The Young Lads (2) (Hell's Kitchen, New York)

Personnel :

Anthony Antonelli (Lead)

Jim Grote

Johnny Antonelli

Jimmy Amatullo

Discography:

The Young Lads (2)
1963 - Night After Night / Graduation Kiss (Felice 909/712)

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

Biography :

Anthony Antonelli  was born and raised in the west side in Hell's Kitchen around 51st and 52nd street and 10th avenue. Anthony began his singing career at the age of twelve and was a two-time winner on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour. In the late fifties Anthony started his first vocal group called The Young Ladds with his brother Johnny, Jim Grote and Jimmy Amatullo.

  
Marty ?, Johnny Antonelli And Anthony Antonelli                                                                                                                                   

The Group was immediately signed to Felice Records. The group released its first record on Felice Records entitled ''Night After Night''. This record immediately made its way to Billboards Top 100. During the session, the Young Lads backed Singer, songwriter, producer, arranger: Stan Vincent on "Hot Fudge Sundaes and Pizza Pies" b/w "The World Is Round"                                             

                                                                                                         Stan Vincent

Anthony's contract was sold to Music Tone Records where he joined a group called "The Classics". Anthony's next venture in show business was helping to launch a cartoon character called Smurf. '
Jimmy Amatullo was also a member (very possibly the Lead Singer) of the Dedications on the C & A label who had “Shining Star” b/w “Mary Lou” on C & A (# 506) in 1963.


Songs :

The Young Lads (2)

      
Graduation Kiss  /  Night After Night

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Rusty Carry

Rusty Carry (bb The Jordanaires) (Norton, Massachusetts)

Personnel :

Rusty Carry (Lead)

The Jordanaires

Hoyt Hawkins (Baritone)

Neal Matthews Jr. (Second Tenor)

Gordon Stoker (Tenor)

Ray Walker (Bass)

Discography :

Single:
1961 - Tag Along / Our Love Can Wait (Holiday Inn 106)

Unreleased :
1961 - Lonely Tears (Holiday Inn)

Biography :

In august 1961 Rusty Carry, a 16 year old Norton Boy, senior at J.I. Burton High School  in Vacation in Nashville  caught a bus to the RCA recording studios in hopes of seeing Elvis Presley and to try his luck in the song. Rusty Carry meet Floyd Cramer , a noted pianist and Gordon Stoker, a member of the famed Jordanaires . They took him for a recording session. Later Stoker took Rusty to a songwriter Marijohn Willin. Marijohn wrote two songs she thought be "Right" For Him.

  
                                  The Jordanaires                                                                                Rusty Carry

In September 1961, Rusty recorded Three Songs, "Tag Along”, "Our Love Can Wait” and "Lonely Tears" Backed by the Jordanaires especially the Low voice of Ray Walker on "Tag Along" . The  first two will be released by Holiday In Records. The record has been distributed to 2400 radio stations throughout the country.The teenager has been tagged by Nashville radio announcers as the “Big Voice From A Small Town.”

Songs :

  
   Tag Along                                    Our Love Can Wait

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The Idols (3) (Lodi, California)

Personnel :

Lionel Handel

Mike Harmon

John Hops

Larry Westgate

Discography :

1961 - Tell Me / We Dined By Candlelight (Camelia 100-38/39)
1961 - The Stars Will Remember / Tell Me (Galaxie 77)

Biography :

A Lodi vocal group, “The Idols,” entertainers on radio and television, have joined the ranks of recording artists, with their first disc. The four young men are Lionel Handel, Larry Westgate, Mike Harmon, and John Hops. One song on the record, “Tell Me” was written by Mike Harmon. The other, “We Dined by Candle-light” is a composition of Mrs Helen Allrich, a resident of Lodi. Both songs are ballads of the type in which the group has gained recognition. The two songs were released on The Camelia label from Sacramento.

Lionel Handel, John Hops, Mike Harmon & Larry Westgate

The Idols, an anagram for “Lodi” was formed in 1957 While the singers were stil! attending Lodi High School, and all were playing in the school band. Since that time they have entertained at numerous functions in Lodi, Sacramento, Modesto, Stockton, and San Francisco. Later, after the boys entered college, they continued the singing combo, and branched into radio and video, appearing on the Bil] Rase show and on several occasions they have been guests on the Don Sherwood Show. Some months later, the Idols release their second recording on the Galaxie label.  The latest composition is "The Stars Will Remember" with a repeat of "Tell Me" .

Songs :
(updated by Hans-Joachim) 

      
The Stars Will Remember                                Tell Me                  

Tell Me / We Dined By Candlelight

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The Echoes (6) (Brooklyn, New York)
aka The Laurels (5)

Personnel :

Tommy Morrissey

Harry Boyle

Tom Duffy

Discography :

The Laurels (5)
1960 - Baby Blue (demo)
1960 - Every Dream I Dream (demo)

The Echoes (6)
Singles:
1961 - Baby Blue / Boomerang (Segway 103)
1961 - Sad Eyes / It's Rainin' (Segway 106)
1961 - Gee Oh Gee / Angel Of My Heart (Segway 1002)
1962 - Bluebirds Over The Mountain / A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird (Smash 1766)
1963 - A Million Miles From Nowhere / Keep An Eye On Her (Smash 1807)
1963 - If Love Is / Annabelle Lee (Smash 1850)
1965 - I Love Candy / Paper Roses (Ascott 2188)
Unreleased :
1960 - Think It Over
1961 - In A Little Spanish Town
1964 - I Just Can't Help Myself
1969 - A Rose And A Baby Ruth
1983 - Maybe Tonight
1983 - Let's Go To Angelo's
1983 - I Flunked
1983 - It's Party Time
1984 - Little Star
1984 - Hushabye
1984 - Baby Blue Medley

Biography :

The Echoes were a product of the great New York borough of Brooklyn.  Harry Boyle recalls that in 1959 (at the ripe old age of 15) he was singing with a guy named Charlie Morrissey whose older brother Tommy (age 21) was just getting out of the service.  Tommy started signing with some different guys including Bill Perry the lead of Billy and the Glens.  Bill Perry introduced Tommy to Tom Duffy.   Duffy knew two other guys – Sam Capano and Willie Bender.  These five guys started practicing and getting songs together as the Laurels.  Duffy knew Johnny Powers (of Johnny and the Jokers).

The Laurels

 The story goes that two teachers from Brooklyn wrote a song called “Baby Blue.”  Those two were Sam Guilino and Val Lagueux. The two offered the song to Johnny Powers.  Powers didn’t think the song was right for him and he passed it along to Duffy.  In 1959, the Laurels took the song and did a slow, “Earth Angel” type ballad demo version of Baby Blue.  They shopped it around without success.

In 1960, Harry Boyle was asked to join the group as a guitar player.  Capano and Bender left the group and the remaining trio asked Harry Boyle and Tommy Morrissey to start singing.  They renamed themselves the Echoes. Harry Boyle suggested re-recording Baby Blue as a cha-chat.  The group did that, picking up the pace a bit and changing the intro of the song by spelling out the words “Baby Blue.”  It was Duffy, Morrissey and Boyle with Ralph DePalma on drums. They shopped the record at the famous “1650″ building and met up with Jack Gold of Paris Records (of the G-Clefs, Four Esquires, and Newports fame).  Gold liked it and re-recorded it again with a new arrangement that included guitarist Billy Mueller.  That was December 1960.

Baby Blue b/w Boomerange was released in January 1961 on the S.R.G. label (named for Gold’s son Stephen Richard Gold) and Gold leased the rights to Seg-Way (#103 1961).  The song first broke in Cleveland and was a huge hit going all the way to #12 in Billboard and #9 in Cashbox. The Echoes followed up on Seg-Way with Sad Eyes b/w Its Rainin (Seg-Way #106 1961) which did well locally but only reached #88 nationally.  They followed with Gee Oh Gee b/w Angel of My Heart (Seg-Way #1002 1961) which did not chart.  
https://strathdee.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/one-hit-wonders-the-echoes/

Songs :

The Laurels (5)

  
          Baby Blue (demo)                  Every Dream I Dream (demo)

The Echoes (6)

  
Baby Blue                                  Boomerang

  
Sad Eyes                                          It's Rainin'

  
Gee Oh Gee / Angel Of My Heart         Bluebirds Over The Mountain

  
A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird      A Million Miles From Nowhere  

  
Keep An Eye On Her                               If Love Is           

  
        Annabelle Lee                         I Love Candy / Paper Roses


In A Little Spanish Town

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