Rickey & Jennell

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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