The Vanguards (4)

The Vanguards (4) (Toronto)

Personnel :

Roy Ellis

Percy Gibbons

Gerald Samuels

Vernon Baird

Joey Waterman

Discography :

1958 - Baby Doll / My Friend Mary Ann (Regency 723 / Dot 15791)
1958 - I Love You Darlin' / Tears Fall  (Regency 743)

Biography :

The Vanguards were a Toronto-based vocal group that put out a couple of forty-fives on the Regency label in the late fifties. The group consisted of Roy Ellis, Percy Gibbons and Gerald Samuels along with original members Vernon Baird, Joey Waterman and other local Toronto musicians."  Both records - 'Baby Doll' b/w 'My Friend Mary Ann' and its follow-up 'Tears Fall' b/w 'I Love You Darling' - came out in 1958, "Baby Doll' doesn't seem to have tweaked any charts at the time, but that didn't stop Dot Records from giving it a go down in the States.

Of course, with a relatively unoriginal name like the Vanguards, it shouldn't have come as a surprise that there was already another group with the same name. So the guys chose the hipper-sounding Other Brothers. Vernon Baird and Joey Waterman left the group. As a trio, The Other Brothers became a cabaret act and moved to Montreal working extensively, including at the famous El Morocco Club, with shows elsewhere including Val-d'Or, Rouyn-Noranda and Quebec City's Hotel Clarendon among others." The Other Brothers recorded a Caribbean-themed album with Montreal singer Pierre Noles in 1962 called Everybody Dance the Ay Bo Le.
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Songs :

  
      Baby Doll                             My Friend Mary Ann

  
I Love You Darlin'                                Tears Fall


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