The Swallows (2) aka The Guides, aka The Senders, aka The Uptones

The Swallows (2) (Los Angeles)
aka The Guides, aka The Senders, aka The Uptones

Personnel :

Carlton Beck (Lead Tenor)

Harry Binns (Tenor)

Richard Betts (Baritone)

Jackie Eugene Ware

Raymond Washington

Discography :

The Swallows (2)
1959 - You Must Try / How Long Must A Fool Go On (Guyden 2023)

The Guides
1959 - You Must Try / How Long Must A Fool Go On (Guyden 2023)

The Senders
1959 - I Dream Of You / The Ballad Of Stagger Lee (Kent 320)
1959 - One More Kiss / Everybody Needs To Know (Kent 324)
1961 - Pretty Little Pretty / Spinning (Entra 711)

The Uptones (1)
1962 - No More/ I'll Be There (Lute 6225)
1962 - Be Mine / Dreamin' (Lute 6229)
1963 - Wear My Ring / Dreaming (Magnum 714)

Carlton Beck bb The Hollywood Saxons
1962 - The Girl I Left Behind / You'll Be Coming Home Soon (Penney 1306 /Troy 100)


Biography :

In 1959, Lead singer, Carlton Beck, backed by Richard Botts, Jackie Eugene Ware and Raymond Washington recorded "You Must Try" b/w "How Long Must A Fool Go On" as The Swallows on Guyden  #32023. There was a legal issue challenging Guyden's use of the name "The Swallows," so Guyden changed the group's name to "The Guides" and pressed new copies with the change. The same year, they changed their name to The Senders.

Produced by George Motola, he Brought to the Kent label who at that time was working for the Bihari Brothers. The Senders epitomised the southern California vocal group sound of the later 1950s and early 1960s with the ethereal "I Dream Of You Night After Night" (Kent 320) from 1959. It was their first of two singles on Kent that year — they also had 1961 releases on Entra. Probably with some personnel changes (Richard Betts), the group later recorded as the Uptones on Lute and Magnum in 1962-63.

  
                                                                                                        The Hollywood Saxons

The group's lead singer, Carlton Beck, also had a rare vocal group record on Motola’s Troy label under his own name in 1962 backed by Stan Beverly, Charles Taggart, and Maudice Giles of the Hollywood Saxons. Carlton Beck was a member of the Hollywood Saxons (who recorded on Elf, Entra, Swingin’ and Twentieth Century in the 1960s) and its evolving groups in the 1970s — the Professionals on Action Pac and Speed Limit on Watts.

Songs :

The Guides / The Swallows (2)

    
              You Must Try                         How Long Must A Fool Go On

The Senders

  
       I Dream Of You                        The Ballad Of Stagger Lee

 
     One More Kiss                          Everybody Needs To Know

   
Pretty Little Pretty                                       Spinning     

The Uptones (1)

  
No More                                     I'll Be There

  
Be Mine                                        Dreamin'

  
Wear My Ring                             Dreaming

Carlton Beck bb The Hollywood Saxons


The Girl I Left Behind

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