top : Johnny Hopson & Earl Wade Bottom - Bottom : Teddy Williams & Marty Brown

The Opals (1)  (Harlem, New-York)
aka The Crystals (1)

Personnel :

Earl Wade (Lead)

Marty Brown (Tenor)

Johnny Hopson (Tenor)

Teddy Williams (Bass)

Discography :

The Crystals (1)
1954 - Come To Me Darling / Squeeze Me Baby (Luna 100/ 101/5001)

The Opals (1)
1954 - Come To Me Darling / Squeeze Me Baby (Luna 100/ 101/5001)
1954 - My Heart's Desire / Oh But She Did (Apollo 462) 

Biography :

In June of 1954 Luna Records issues #10-101, its very first recording by a group called The Crystals. The songs are "Come To Me Darling" and "Squeeze Me Baby". Soon after its release they find another group called The Crystals exists and they record for the DeLuxe label.

Six weeks after its initial release the record is re-issued as Luna 5001 by The Opals and the label is now identified as a subsidiary of Apollo Records. In October of that year The Opals record again, this time for the parent label Apollo and #462 is released - "Ooh But She Did" and "My Hearts Desire". That seems to be the entire history of The Opals on record. Later, Wade joined The Cadillacs. Earlier, Williams had been with The Vocaleers.
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Songs :

   
Come To Me Darling / Squeeze Me Baby                  My Heart's Desire / Oh But She Did

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