The Love Notes (3) (Manhattan, New York)
aka The Ivories (1)

Personnel :

Johnny Hicks (Lead tenor)

Dave Cole (First tenor)

Joe Shallow (Second tenor)

Johnny Earl Jackson (Baritone)

James Coney (Bass)

Discography :

The Ivories (1)
1955 - Alone / Baby Send A Letter (Jaguar 3019)
1956 - Alone / Baby Send A Letter (Jaguar 3023)

The Love Notes (3)
1957 - United / Tonight (Holiday 2605)
1957 - If I Could Make You Mine / Don't Go (Holiday 2607)

Biography :

The Ivories started in early 1955 with Johnny Hicks (lead tenor), Dave Cole (first tenor), Joe Shallow (second tenor), Johnny Earl Jackson (baritone), and James Coney (bass). The pianist and arranger was Sylvester Bradford. The group took its name from Sylvester's piano keys: the Ivories. They auditioned for George Bennett, owner of Jaguar Records and cut "Alone " b/w "Baby Send A Letter". The record was released in November 1955. By late 1956, Dave Cole was replaced by second tenor Lucy Cedeno & Johnny Earl Jackson left. In early 1957, the Ivories changed their name to the Love Notes.

  

Pretty soon they had a contract to record for Danny Robinson and Clarence Johnson's Holiday label. At their first session, they recorded "United" and "Tonight,". "United" started taking off in New York. It did so well so quickly, that the Love Notes were hurried into a show at the Apollo. Somewhere along the way, the Love Notes managed to fit in a second session. This time the songs were "If I Could Make You Mine" and "Don't Go," another pair led by Johnny Hicks. They were released in mid-August, 1957. Shortly after the band broke up.

  
The Love Notes (3) - Lucy Cedeno, Joe Shallow, James Coney, Johnny Hicks                                          

After leaving the Ivories, Johnny Earl Jackson formed a new Ivories group consisted of Johnny Earl Jackson (baritone/bass), his girlfriend, Ella Lewis (lead), her brother, Richard Lewis (first tenor), Moses Brown (baritone), and a second tenor named "Blinky." They recorded a pair of tunes  "Me And You" b/w "I'm In Love" for Mercury. Then Moses Brown got disgusted and left the Ivories, to be replaced by a baritone named "Chink."they  changing their name to the Ivoleers and recorded "Lovers' Quarrel" and "Come With Me" for Bobby Smith's Buzz label in early 1959.
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Songs :

The Ivories (1)

  
Alone                                  Baby Send A Letter


The Love Notes (3)

     
United                                 Tonight                      If I Could Make You Mine


Don't Go

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