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    Rickey & Jennell (Los Angeles, California)
    (By Hans-Joachim)

     

    Personnel :

    Richard Berry

    Jennell Hawkins

     

    Discography:

    1954 - Each Step / This Time Is Real (Flair 1033)

     

    Biography:

    Rickey & Jennell were the male-female duo of Richard Berry and his friend Jennell Hawkins, who put out one single on Flair in 1954, "Each Step"/"This Time It's Real." Both sides were routine doo wop duets - "Each Step" a ballad, "This Time It's Real" in the more uptempo R&B vein - and have been reissued on the Richard Berry compilation Yama Yama! The Modern Recordings 1954-1956. 

       

     Berry, of course, was just at the start of a career that would find him issuing many R&B and rock & roll records as a solo artist, most famously on the original version of "Louie, Louie" in 1957.
    Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

    http://www.louielouie.net/03-richardberry.htm
    http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/JennellHawkins.htm

     

    Songs:

       
    Each Step                             This Time Is Real

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