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The Delicates (2) aka The Darlings (2) aka ...

Posted on April 2 2010 by dion1

The Sweethearts (2) aka The Darlings (2) aka......
Oma Heard

The Darlings (2) (Los Angeles, CA)
aka The Sweethearts (2)
aka The Sa-Shays
aka The Utmosts
aka The Dynels
aka The Postalettes
aka The Delicates (2)

Personnel :

Oma Heard (Lead)

Carlotta "Cookie" Robertson (Lead)

Maxine Waters

Julia Waters

Discography :

The Sweethearts (2)
1961 - They Talk Too Much / Puppy Love (Hi-III 116)
1961 - Summer Days / What Is Love (Hi-III 117)

The Sa-Shays
1961 - You Got Love / Boo Hoo Hoo (Zen 101 / Alfi 1)
1963 - Here Comes The Love / I’ll Make You Love Me (Zen 109)

The Utmosts
1962 - I Need You / Big Man (Pan Or 1123)

The Dynels
1962 - Boy Friend / Let's Do It Again (Dot 16382)
1964 - Just A Face In The Crowd / C'mon Little Darlin’ (Natural 7001)

The Postalettes
1963 - He Played One, Two, Three, Four / Like Chalypso (Instrumental) (Dore 662)

The Darlings (2)
1963 - To Know Him Is To Love Him / Train Out Of Memphis (Instrumental) (Dore 663)
1963 - He Played One, Two, Three, Four / My Pillow (Dore 677)
1966 - The Horn Goes Beep Beep Beep / Floatin' On Cotton Candy (Instrumental) (Dore 775)

The Delicates (2)
1963 - My Pillow / He Played One, Two, Three, Four (Dee Dee 677 / Celeste 676)

Biography :

The Darlings, a female quartet comprising Oma Heard, Carlotta "Cookie" Robertson (Gaynell Hodge’s niece who In 1960 with Joyce Chapel & Marie Love recorded as The Chiffons and The Unforgettables) and the sisters Maxine and Julia Waters, were managed and produced by a former artist named Bobby Sanders - real name: Jerome Lenoir. In 1963, Dore issued two consecutive singles by the group under different names, the first as the Postalettes singing 'He Played 1, 2, 3, 4' (a variation of 'The Paddiwack Song'), the second as the Darlings with their punchy revival of 'To Know Him Is To Love Him', heard here. Sanders produced all four at the same (with Grayson arranging) and assigned the masters over Dore on 23 January 1963.

The Sweethearts (2) aka The Darlings (2) aka......

Three of the four girls had previously sung in a Fremont High School group named the Sweethearts, who recorded for producer H.B. Barnum in 1961 and moonlighted on obscure one-off 45s as the Utmosts and the Sa-Shays. Although amateur, they were already establishing career paths as versatile session vocalists and barely knew their identity from one release to the next - immediately prior to signing for Dore, they had recorded a one-off 45 for producer Steve Venet (himself a former Dore artist) as the Dynels on Dot.

The Sweethearts (2) aka The Darlings (2) aka......

Oma Heard

Something about 'He Played 1, 2, 3, 4' piqued Lew Bedell interest because a few months later, he re-issued it with a new B-side ('My Pillow') on Dore 677 crediting the Darlings. Then again, in October 1963 on Dee Dee 677 as by the Delicates!. And he wasn't finished yet. Possibly frustrated by his inability to break the record, Bedell sold the master to a couple who ran a tiny R&B label, Celeste, out of their LA home, prompting a further re-issue with the revised title 'This Old Man' on Celeste 676. Oma Heard later sang with Ike Turner's Ikettes, did session work and recorded under her own name for Motown in the late 1960s, while the Water sisters worked as background singers on countless sessions by such diverse artists as Paul Simon, Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Paul and Rod Stewart.

Songs :

The Sweethearts (2)


   They Talk Too Much                          Puppy Love


Summer Days                                  What Is Love

The Sa-Shays


You Got Love                          Boo Hoo Hoo


Here Comes The Love                I’ll Make You Love Me

The Utmosts

I Need You Big Man

The Dynels


     Boy Friend                               Let's Do It Again


Just A Face In The Crowd                   C'mon Little Darlin’

The Darlings (2)

To Know Him Is To Love Him My Pillow

The Delicates (2)

My Pillow

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Eddie Cooley & The Dimples (1)

Posted on April 1 2010 by dion1

Eddie Cooley & The Dimples (1) (New York)

Personnel :

Eddie Cooley (Lead)

Beverly Coates

Carolyn Coates

Barbara Sanders

Discography :

Singles:
1956 - Priscillia / Got A Little Woman (Royal Roost 621)
1957 - A spark Met A Flame / Driftwood (Royal Roost 626)
1957 - Hey You / Pull, Mon Pull (Royal Roost 628)
1959 - Leona / Be My Steady (Clementine) (Triumph 609)
1960 - Priscillia / A spark Met A Flame (Roulette 4272)

Unreleased:
N/A - Juicy Fruit
N/A - The Wildest Time
N/A - Betty Lou
N/A - Let's Carve Our Names
N/A - Harry And Carry
N/A - Fever
N/A - Lay it on

Biography :

Eddie Cooley was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and later relocated to New York. His lasting claim to fame is that he wrote the smash hit (and subsequent standard) 'Fever' that has been successfully recorded by many artists including Little Willie John, The McCoys, Terry Dene, Elvis Presley and, of course, Peggy Lee. The song was co-written with the legendary composer and singer Otis Blackwell who, for this piece, adopted the nom de plume of John Davenport. This happened to be the real name of Blackwell's stepfather.

As Otis explained: "Eddie Cooley was a friend of mine from New York and he called me up and said "Man, I got an idea for a song called "Fever", but I can´t finish it. I had to write it under another name because, at that time, I was still under contract to Joe Davis." Eddie Cooley and Blackwell went on to write other songs for King Record artists such as The Lamplighters, The 5 Royales and Joe Tex. When Boyd Bennett of 'Seventeen' fame rejected the song 'Priscilla', a demo version was played to Teddy Reig, the A&R man for Royal Roost Records. The label was launched, initially as Roost Records, in 1950 in New York by Arthur & Bill Fadden along with Monty Kay and Ralph Watkins and was nominally owned by Jack Hooke, manager of Alan Freed.

However, in August 1958, Roulette Records bought out the company. Reig liked the demo by Cooley and arranged for Eddie to re-cut 'Priscilla' as a master. This time, it was with a trio of girls who were under the collective name of The Dimples. Otis Blackwell recalled: Well, Eddie was not really a singer, understand, so what I did was I found three girls that were living in the projects over there, and I put them together.

Cause at that time there was no girls backing up any singer, one particular singer. There were all girl groups, all boy groups, there were duets. But, there was no group where the lead was a male and the backup singers were girls. So that's how that got over. 'Priscilla' when released on Royal Roost 621 in mid-1956 became successful on the East Coast with the help of Alan Freed playing it on the radio and booking the outfit m on some of his shows. A reviewer in Billboard wrote : Here is yet another left-field hit.

Eddie Cooley & The Dimples (1)

Starting off with unusually good volume in Eastern cities like New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore, the disc has moved out now in almost every part of the country. Detroit and Pittsburgh are very keen on the disc, and it seems about ready to make a big surge to the national listings. On 24th November 1956, the song reached its highest chart position at # 20.
http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/eddie_cooley.htm

Songs :


Pull Man Pull                              Driftwood                      Hey You


Fever                        The Wildest Time           Be My Steady (Clementine)


Priscilla                                  A Spark Met A Flame              Leona

Got A Little Woman The Wildest Time

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