Larry Gales

The Starlings (1) (Bronx, New York)
aka The Twilighters (2)


Personnel :

Larry Gales (Lead)

Stan Gilbert (First Tenor)

Jackie Marshall (Second Tenor)

John E. Johnson (Baritone)

Clyde Franklin (Bass)


Discography :

The Starlings (1)
Singles:
1954 - Music Maestro Please / My Plea For Love (Josie 760)
1955 - I’m Just A Crying Fool / Hokey-Smokey Mama (Dawn 212)
1955 - A-Loo, A-Loo / I Gotta Go Now (Dawn 213)
Unreleased :
1954 - Fine Brown Frame (Josie)
1954 - Ebb Tide (Josie)
1954 - The Girl That I Marry (Josie)

The Twilighters (2)
Singles:
1955 - Little Did I Dream / Gotta Get On The Train (MGM 55011)
1956 - Half Angel / Lovely Lady (MGM 55014)


Biography :

The Starlings who hail from the Bronx, NYC., had a fairly ordinary beginning in 1951: five friends who sang on the street. All Morris High School students, they were: Larry Gales (tenor lead), Stan Gilbert (1st tenor), Jackie Marshall (2nd tenor), Johnny Johnson (baritone), and Clyde Franklin (bass).  The group called themselves the "Starlings" from the beginning, as a conscious tribute to the other "bird groups" of the time, their repertoire consisted mostly of songs that they had written themselves.

They appeared in talent shows, at the Renaissance Casino and in the Apollo amateur show. Their Music teacher, Herb Miller got them a contract with Jubilee's Jerry Blaine, and he had them record for his new label Josie. In April of 1954, "Music Maestro Please" b/w "My Plea For Love" was Josie's first release. The record failed to get any airplay or a push from Blaine. Johnson and Gales reorganized the group in late 1954 or early 1955 with former Crickets' Bill Lindsay & Donald Redd, the brother of the Fi-Tones’.

      
Bill Lindsay

Gene Redd. Miller brought he revamped Starlings to Dawn Records where they recorded two singles, "I'm Just A Crying Fool"/"Hokey-Smokey Mama" and "A-Loo, A-Loo"/"I Gotta Go Now" in the winter of 1955. After rechristening themselves the Twilighters, the group waxed four tunes for M-G-M Records in June of 1955, "Little Did I Dream"/"Gotta Get On The Train" (released that July), and "Lovely Lady"/"Half Angel", which came out in early 1956.
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Songs :

The Starlings (1)

  
   My Plea For Love / Music Maestro Please          I’m Just A Crying Fool / Hokey-Smokey Mama

  
A-Loo, A-Loo / I Gotta Go Now              Fine Brown Frame            


The Twilighters (2)

  
Little Did I Dream / Gotta Get On The Train       Half Angel / Lovely Lady                



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