The Carlos Brothers (Chicago)
aka The Shadows (3)

Personnel :

Jimmy Carlos

Pete Antoniano

Discography :

The Shadows (3)
1958 - Under the Stars of love / Jungle Fever (Del-Fi 4109)

The Carlos Brothers
1959 - Come On Let's Dance / Tonight (Del-Fi 4112)

1959 - It's Time To Go / Little Cupid (Del-Fi 4118)

1960 - La Bamba / It's Time To Go (Del-Fi 4145)

1963 - I Realize / Meet My Town (Zen 106)

Biography :

Jimmy Carlos and Pete Antoniano were brothers who shared the same mother but had different fathers. They are credited as being the first Los Angeles-based act to bring the Mexican duet style into rhythm & blues. They grew up in the Cabrillo projects in the city of Long Beach, California. Their early influences were all-black doowop & R&B groups. Jimmy & Pete went to Banning High School in the city of Wilmington, California. There, they began performing under the name the Shadows at talents shows  and shows for local car clubs.

El Monte Legion Stadium

They were asked to come and perform at El Monte Legion Stadium  at a show headlined by Ritchie Valens. Ritchie was impressed by duo and told them he would talk to his manager Bob Keane of Del-Fi Records. At the time Jimmy was 17 and Pete was 15. They recorded "Under Stars Of Love" and "Jungle Fever" under the name the Shadows.

   
Ritchie Valens                                                                 

It was released in September of 1958 but the record went nowhere possibly because using the name the Shadows, they were thought to be black. For their next single, the duo recorded "Tonight" and "Come On Let's Dance" For that session they were joined by Ritchie Valens who plays guitar on both sides. The record was released just one month after Ritchie's tragic death in February 1959. For this release & the next they used the name The Carlos Brothers.

Later in 1959, Jimmy & Pete would record "It's Time To Go" and "Little Cupid". In 1960 the brothers would record an updated version of La Bamba" and it would be released with "It's Time To Go" as the flip side. For the track " La Bamba" Ritchie's original track was used, Bob Keane added some violins and the Blossoms, a Los Angeles girl group added the backing. The Carlos Brothers would quit music for a while but returned in 1963 for producer H.B. Barnum. They cut "Meet My Town", a sort of Beach Boys-styled tribute to Los Angeles and "I Realize". These tracks were released on the Zen label.
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Songs :

The Carlos Brothers

     
It's Time To Go                    Come On Let's Dance                    I Realize    

     
Tonight                                  La Bamba                           Meet My Town

The Shadows (3)

Under the Stars of love / Jungle Fever

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The Miller Sisters (Long Island, N.Y.)

Personnel :

Maxine Miller

Vernel Miller

Hedy Miller

Jeanette Miller

Sandy Miller


 

Discography :

1955 - Hipetty Ha / Until you'r mine (Herald 455)
1956 - Guess Who / How am i to know (Ember 1004)
1956 - Please Don't Leave / Do You Wanna Go (Hull 718)
1957 - Sugar Candy / My Own (Onyx 507)
1957 - Let's Start Anew / The Flip Skip (Acme 111)
1957 - You Made Me A Promise / Crazy Billboard Song (Acme 717)
1958 - Let's Start Anew / The Flip Skip (Acme 721)
1960 - Oh Lover / Remember that (Miller 1140)
1960 - Pony Dance / Give me some old-Fashioned love (Miller 1141)
1961 - You got to reap what you sow / Pop your finger (Glodis 1003)
1962 - I miss you so / Dance little sister (Rayna 5001)
1962 - Walk on / Oh Why (Rayna 5004)
1960 - Just Wait And See / Black Pepper (Instrumental)    (Hull 736)
1962 - Roll Back The Rug (And Twist) / Don't You Forget (Hull 750)
1962 - Cried All Night / Hully Gully Reel (Hull 752)
1962 - Dance Close / Tell him (Riverside 4535)
1963 - Baby your Baby / Silly girl (Rolette 4491)
1964 - Cooncha / Fell good (Stardust 3001)
1965 - Looking over my life / Si Senor (Yorktown 75)
1965 - Your Love / Please Don't Say Goodbye Dear (GMC 10003)
1965 - I'm telling it like it is / Until you comme home, I'll walk alone (GMC 10006)

Biography :

The sisters had a starring role in the first R&B motion Picture, Fritz Pollard's "Rockin' the Blues", in 1955.

The Millers were the daughters of Long Island A&R man, songwriter, & arranger William Milller (Hull, Onyx, Acme, Miller High Fi, Concha, Ember, Tri-Boro, Q, Rayna, Yorktown labels, etc.), & he taught his daughters well.

The miller sisters (1955) Thanks to Juan

Here they are featured doing two uptempo dance numbers: "Do You Wanna Go" (a re-titling of their own "Roll Back the Rug") & "Everybody's Havin' a Ball", both of which are far from their best material, & lip-synched here, but it's great just to see them in their only video appearance.

 

Songs :

  
Tell him                               Your Love

Give Me Some Old Fashion Love / Pony Dance

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The Diamonds (1) (Harlem, New York)
 (By Hans-Joachim)

Personnel :

Harold "Sonny" Wright (Lead)

Daniel Stevens (Bass)

Myles Hardy (First Tenor)

Ernest Ward (Second Tenor)

Discography :

1952 - A Beggar For Your Kisses / Call, Baby, Call (Atlantic 981)   
1953 - I'll Live Again / Two Loves Have I  (Atlantic 1003)   
1954 - Romance In The Dark / Cherry  (Atlantic 1017)

Biography :

Long before the "Little Darlin'" Diamonds of Canada emerged on the music scene there was a New York City R & B group that had one of the most beautiful harmonystyles around. The group began as a trio from Harlem labeling themselves theThree Aces in 1948. Harold (Sonny) Wright on lead, first tenor Myles Hardy, andbass, Daniel Stevens. They became the Four Aces in 1951 when Ernest Ford joined, since Eight Aces already existed and a white quartet of Aces were emerging these Aces changedsuits to the Four Diamonds and later to just The Diamonds. In 1952 Sonny went solo at the Apollo amateur night contest and won.

After several more wins owner Bobby Schiffman offered him a week on the bill. Sonny told him about the group and Schiffman ran them thru an audition. He was so impressed he gave them a weeks worth of work and took them on for management.  Their first recordings were on October 29, 1952 & "A Beggar for Your Kisses" became there first single in December. "A Beggar" even though it had exquisite harmony went begging for air play. (The imperfection of early `50s recording techniques or just a rush to get the job done allowed the listener to pick up two of the Diamonds talking at the end of "Beggar" before the machine was turned off, and the record was pressed that way.)  Their next single, "Two Loves Have I" was a gorgeous ballad derived from a French melody, with Sonny singing his heart out and Myles's constant falsetto nearly establishing a trademark sound for the group.

 Seems like no one at Atlantic was paying attention what with the Clovers having great success with "Middle of the Night". Their last single was "Romance In the Dark" b/w "Cherry" the latter an outstanding side that deserved a better fate. They broke up in 1955 but not before they wowed audiences in Philadelphia's Town hall on June 17, 1955 along side Dean Barlow, The Crickets, Ruth Brown The Dreams, Bo Diddley, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins.


Songs :

   
A Beggar For Your Kisses           Call, Baby, Call

   
I'll Live Again                        Two Loves Have I


   
Romance In The Dark                         Cherry

Tommy Tucker

The Dusters (1) (Ohio]
aka The Duster’s aka The Belvaderes



Personnel :

Tommy Tucker (Tenor)

Clarence LeVille (Lead)

James Crosby (Tenor)

Yonnie Peoples

Dave Johnson (Lead)





Discography :

The Belvaderes
1955 - Don't Leave Me Here To Cry / I Love You (Baby) (Hudson 4)

The Duster’s
1955 - Don't Leave Me Here To Cry / I Love You (Baby) (Hudson 4)

The Dusters (1)
Singles :
1956 - Give Me Time / Sallie Mae (Arc 3000)
1958 - Darling Love / Teen Age Jamboree (Glory 287)
Unreleased:
1956 - Castles In Ihe Sky(Ivory Tower) (Arc)

Biography :

Tommy Tucker was not the real name of Robert Higginbotham, who had himself devised this pseudonym. March 5, 1933 Born in Springfield, Ohio, he learned to play the piano by beobachtete- later he took a local hairdresser playing with his son lessons. He refined his technique at performances in Central Ohio with the Orchestra of the saxophonist Bobby Wood in the early 50's and then founded with trumpeter Clarence LaVell a band that received a firm commitment at a club in Dayton. By 1955, the demand for vocal group music was at its zenith. The Bobby Wood Orchestra was forced to adapt to enable them to find good paying gigs and, more importantly, to strengthen survival against stiff competition. The orchestra split apart and became a doo-wop quartet overnight. Tucker and childhood pal James Crosby sang tenor leads with Dave Johnson (tenor) and Clarence Lavell (bass). Yonnie Peoples joined later when the group recorded. For live engagements, the quartet billed themselves as the Cavaliers.

   

Some time during the spring of 1955, having signed a deal with ARC Records, the Cavaliers entered Syd Nathan's King label Cincinnati studios, ready and eager to record three songs: "Give Me Time," "Sallie Mae" and a tune remembered variously as "Castles In The Sky" or "Ivory Tower".For some reason, perhaps because the Cavaliers did not want to get themselves confused with the Cavaliers on Decca or Atlas labels, the group opted to change their name to the Dusters. The Cavaliers/Dusters waited well over a year before the ARC release. Some eight months prior, the group, perhaps out of impatience, opted to try and find a record company willing to get product onto the market fast. Touring brought the group to East St. Louis where they hitched up with The Ike Turner Band. During their sojourn in the city they met up with a guy named Hudson, owner and proprietor of Hudson Records. After the audition, Hudson took the group to the King Studios in Cincinnati where they had cut previously for ARC. The group, now billed as the Belvaderes, with Crosby and Lavell sharing leads and Tucker shifting more to piano accompaniment and writing arrangements, cut two songs, "Don't Leave Me To Cry" and "I Love You (Baby)." In 1958 James Crosby wrote the splendid "Darling Love" recorded by the Dusters and released The Same year by Glory  Records.




Songs :

  
                      Darling Love                      Don't Leave Me Here To Cry             

  
I Love You (Baby)               Give Me Time

  
Sallie Mae                            Teen Age Jamboree

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The Eldaros (Syracuse, NY)


Personnel :

Bobby Green

Jimmy Singleton

Levy Hall

Kenny Tucker

James Crawford

Duke Kearse (Guitarist)


Discography :

Unreleased:
1957 - Baby Child

Singles :
1958 - Please Surrender / Rock-a-Bock (Vesta 101/102)


Biography :

The Eldaros from Syracuse comprised of Bobby Green, Jimmy Singleton, Levy Hall, Kenny Tucker, James Crawford and guitarist Duke Kearse. By 1957, this group had made a demo recording ("Baby Child") at Dufford Studio located in downtown Syracuse on South Warren Street, While at Dufford's recording an album that was never released they met song writer Jacquelin Nesbit, who wrote a song called "Rock A Bock", that became the Eldaros first record for the Vesta Record Label in February 1958. Little did they realize but over twenty years later the flip side "Please Surrender" written by Green would become one of the most sought after group records by many of the countries top rhythm and blues collectors. With that release, the Eldaros received much publicity though both the Syracuse Newspapers as well as air play by WNDR's Mr, Rhythm and Bill Worth (later known as Billy Williams) who was now the singing groups manager.

 Worth though his many national connections tried to obtained a recording contract for them with Aladdin Records a blues label out of Los Angeles. Aladdin was the home of many stars as Shirley & Lee, Thurston Harris and the Five Keys. After the Aladdin contract arrived Worth needed capital ($) to finalize the deal. Bobby Green said "That Worth was paid by the group and disappeared." The contract was never signed and is still to this day in the property of Green. The Eldaros disbanded in 1958, but Bobby Green and Jimmy Singleton stayed together to record "Each Passing Day", another classic, this time written by the songwriting team of Wilma Lung and Viola Flansburg (who later wrote the hit song- "Teeter Totter Love" for The Marcels in 1963) the sonng was released on both Utica's Mark Records and Albany's Stentor Records in 1960.
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Songs :

  
 Baby Chil                                 Please Surrender

Please Surrender / Rock-a-Bock

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