The Fauns (Sidney, Australia)

Personnel :

Peter Flanagan

Paul Flanagan

Margaret Flanagan

Discography :

1960 - Dance With Me / Don’t Take The Stars (Leedon LS589)
1961 - We Should Be Together / While Susan Sleeps (Leedon LK57)
1961 - Tell Me Why / Nursery Rhyme Rock (Leedon LK114)

Biography :

The fauns were an early 1960s aussie vocal group. they were some of the early performers who appeared on australian bandstand. They had 3 vinyl singles. The faun's first single in 1960 was "dance with me" backed with "don't take the stars" on the lee gordon owned record label "leedon".

On the "dance with me" record label it has a confusing little tag which states..."with orchestrations under the direction of eddie cash jr"...for those who are "not in the know", eddie cash jr. was really johnny o'keefe, a man prone to using this strange pseudonym for his own warped amusement. The Fauns became known as the Flanagans in 1963

Videos


Xmas Medley


What Am I Gonna Do


Songs :

   
Dance With Me                                Don't Take The Stars

   
We Should Be Together                            While Susan Sleeps

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    (paste-up picture ) Johnson, Simmons, Harris & Sanders

The Cubans (2) (Los Angeles)
aka Little Caesar & The Romans (3) aka The Upfronts (1)

Personnel :

David "Caesar" Johnson (Lead)

Johnny Simmons (First Tenor)

Early Harris (Second Tenor)

Leroy Sanders (Bass)

Curtis ? (Second Tenor)



Discography :

The Cubans (2)
Single:
1959 - Tell Me / You've Been Gone So Long (Flash 133)
Unreleased:
1959 - Oh Miss Dolly (Flash)
1959 - Don't Go Baby (Flash)
1959 - Can't You See (Flash)



Biography :

David Johnson headed for Los Angeles and joined up with Johnny Simmons (first tenor) Early Harris (second tenor), Leroy Sanders (bass), and someone named Curtis (second tenor) to form the Cubans in 1955 (though none of the members were Cuban ).  They signed with Charlie Reynolds' Watts- based record label/record store, Flash Records. The Cubans' only single out of Flash's 623 East Vernon Avenue address was an enjoyable ballad called "Tell Me," with Early on lead, backed by a blues-styled jump tune similar to THE PARAGONS' later "Stick with Me Baby" titled "You've Been Gone So Long," featuring David.

   Except for some local play it went unnoticed. In 1959 the Cubans disbanded (they would not have been too popular under that name anyway during Castro's Cuban revolution), and David hooked up with Lummtone Records, owned by Lummie Fowler. He formed the Upfronts. Several years later they became little Caesar & the Romans.

Jay Warner - American singing groups: a history from 1940s to today



Songs :

   
Tell Me (Will You Ever Be Mine)           You've Been Gone So Long

   
Oh Miss Dolly                                    Can't You See

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The Caronators (Detroit)

Personnel :

?

Discography :

1961 - Long Hot Summer / Senorita (Clock 1045)
1961 - Lonely Street / Fairy Tales (Clock 1047)
1961 - This Is The Time / Casanova (Clock 1049)

Biography :

Songs :

   
This Is The Time                               Long Hot Summer

   
 Senorita                                               Fairy Tales

   
Lonely Street                                        Casanova

The Nic Nacs (Los Angeles)
aka The Robins



Personnel :
 
Mickey Champion (Lead)

Ty Terrell (Tenor)

Bobby Nunn (Tenor)

Roy Richards (Baritone)

Billy Richards (Bass)



Discography :

1950 - Found Me A Sugar Daddy / Gonna Have A Merry Christmas (RPM 313/342)
1951 - Found Me A Sugar Daddy / You Didn't Want My Love (RPM 316)
1950 - I'm Telling You Baby (RPM) (Unreleased)



Biography :

From Recorded In Hollywood, the Robins headed over to the Bihari brothers' RPM Records, a subsidiary of Modern Records. On November 2, 1950, they recorded four songs: "Gonna Have A Merry Christmas," "Found Me A Sugar Daddy," "I'm Telling You Baby," and "You Didn't Want My Love." On all of these except the last, the Robins are paired with Mickey Champion, another Little Esther sound-alike.

"Found Me A Sugar Daddy" is an answer to "Double Crossin' Blues," only this time Bobby Nunn characterizes his woman as an ape rather than a bear. Although the group was still under contract to Dolphin, the quartet jumped ship, searching for that elusive payday. Consequently, RPM issued all their records as by the "Nic Nacs" The Robins were understandably reluctant to sign their names to contracts. They'd get a recording deal, do the session, and never hear from the company again. If they were lucky, they'd get five or ten dollars each for the session. This puts the label-hopping that occurred in proper perspective.
http://www.uncamarvy.com/Robins/robins.html
http://www.angelfire.com/mn/coasters/robins.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymar41/robins.html



Songs :

      
I'm Telling You Baby              Found Me A Sugar Daddy 

       
Gonna Have A Merry Christmas   You Didn't Want My Love

CDs :

Etta James & The Peaches (San Francisco, California)

Personnel :

Etta James "Jamesetta Hawkins"

Jean Mitchell

Abbysinia "Abbye" Mitchell




Discography :

Etta James & The Peaches
1955 - The Wallflower (Roll With Me Henry) / Hold Me, Squeeze Me (Modern 947) 

1955 - The Wallflower (Dance With Me Henry) / Hold Me, Squeeze Me (Modern 947)

Etta James bb The Peaches
1955 - Hey Henry / Be Mine (Modern 957)

Biography :

Etta James, whose real name was Jamesetta Hawkins, was born on 25 January 1938 in Los Angeles, USA.  When she was twelve, her family moved to San Francisco and here she developed a strong interest in Rhythm and Blues, being particularly influenced by Billie Holiday. She decided that she too wanted to pursue a professional career as a songstress, and formed a singing trio 'The Creolettes' with two girlfriends.

She was only fourteen when they went for an audition with the famous band-leader Johny Otis. It was a successful audition and landed them a recording deal with Modern Records. Jamesetta agreed to change her name to the more catching anagram, Etta James, the Creolettes took on her nickname 'Peaches', and, in 1954, they were in Los Angeles for the recording. It was the start of what was to be an immensely successful and equally volatile career.

The song they recorded was the same one they had performed for the audition, a song inspired by the current chart-topper by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. It was called 'Work With Me Annie', but Etta James and the Peaches, deciding this song was too tame for them, had transformed it into the more suggestive 'Roll With Me Henry'.

This, however, was too wild for the moralistic atmosphere of the Nineteen-Fifties, and so, after receiving objections from several Radio Programmers, the title had to be changed to 'Wallflower'. While agreeing to these changes however, Etta James did not compromise with the soulfully seductive quality of the song, and it proved to be an instant hit, reaching the second place on the 1955 R&B Charts.  It received further impetus when Georgia Gibbs, a well-known singer of the period, did a more sedate cover version that was recorded as 'Dance With Me, Henry'. This version reached the number one spot. Shortly after this, the Peaches split and Etta James sailed on to a solo career.
http://home.earthlink.net/~v1tiger/ettaj.html
http://redkelly.blogspot.com/2006/04/etta-james-im-gonna-take-what-hes-got.html

Songs :

   
The Wallflower (Roll With Me Henry)            Hold Me, Squeeze Me

   
Hey Henry                                                Be Mine

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