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The Crowns (2) aka The Five Crowns (1)

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The Crowns (2) (New-York)
aka The Five Crowns (1)  aka The Drifters
(Update By Hans-Joachim)



Personnel :

James "Papa" Clark (Lead)

Benjamin Earl Nelson "Ben E. King" (Second Tenor)

Charlie Thomas (Tenor)

Dock Green (Baritone)

Elsbeary Hobbs (Bass)




Discography :

1958 - Kiss And Make Up  / I'll Forget About You (RnB 6901)



Biography :

On a fateful day in 1957, Benjamin Earl Nelson  was singing to himself while working in his father's restaurant. One of the patrons that day happened to be Lover Patterson, manager of the 5 Crowns. In need of a second tenor/baritone, Patterson snapped him up.

At the time, the other Crowns were Sy Palmer (lead), Charlie Thomas (tenor), Dock Green (baritone), and Elsbeary Hobbs (bass). Within a short while, Sy Palmer left and was replaced by one of the mainstays of the original 5 Crowns, James "Papa" Clark.

   

In 1958, this group recorded "Kiss And Make Up" and "I'll Forget About You" for Doc Pomus and Mort Schuman's R & B label. "Kiss And Make Up" began to make some noise locally, and the Crowns were booked into the Apollo Theater (as part of a Dr. Jive show) for the week beginning May 30, 1958.


The Crowns with manager Lover Patterson

They'd released one record, but in about a year from the time they became the Drifters, they were at the top of the heap. And they stayed there for many years


The Drifters

http://www.uncamarvy.com/5Crowns/5crowns.html



Songs :

   
I'll Forget About You                              Kiss And Make Up



Cds :

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The Fauns

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The Fauns (Sidney, Australia)

 

Personnel :

Peter Flanagan

Paul Flanagan

Margaret Flanagan

 

Discography :

1960 - Dance With Me / Don’t Take The Stars (Leedon LS589)
1961 - We Should Be Together / While Susan Sleeps (Leedon LK57)
1961 - Tell Me Why / Nursery Rhyme Rock (Leedon LK114)

 

Biography :

The fauns were an early 1960s aussie vocal group. they were some of the early performers who appeared on australian bandstand. They had 3 vinyl singles. The faun's first single in 1960 was "dance with me" backed with "don't take the stars" on the lee gordon owned record label "leedon".

The Fauns

On the "dance with me" record label it has a confusing little tag which states..."with orchestrations under the direction of eddie cash jr"...for those who are "not in the know", eddie cash jr. was really johnny o'keefe, a man prone to using this strange pseudonym for his own warped amusement. The Fauns became known as the Flanagans in 1963

 

Videos


Xmas Medley


What Am I Gonna Do


Songs :

   
Dance With Me                                Don't Take The Stars

   
We Should Be Together                            While Susan Sleeps

 ...

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The Cubans (2) aka Little Caesar & The Romans (3) aka The Upfronts (1)

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    (paste-up picture ) Johnson, Simmons, Harris & Sanders

The Cubans (2) (Los Angeles)
aka Little Caesar & The Romans (3) aka The Upfronts (1)

 

Personnel :

David "Caesar" Johnson (Lead)

Johnny Simmons (First Tenor)

Early Harris (Second Tenor)

Leroy Sanders (Bass)

Curtis ? (Second Tenor)



Discography :

The Cubans (2)
Single:
1959 - Tell Me / You've Been Gone So Long (Flash 133)
Unreleased:
1959 - Oh Miss Dolly (Flash)
1959 - Don't Go Baby (Flash)
1959 - Can't You See (Flash)



Biography :

David Johnson headed for Los Angeles and joined up with Johnny Simmons (first tenor) Early Harris (second tenor), Leroy Sanders (bass), and someone named Curtis (second tenor) to form the Cubans in 1955 (though none of the members were Cuban ).  They signed with Charlie Reynolds' Watts- based record label/record store, Flash Records. The Cubans' only single out of Flash's 623 East Vernon Avenue address was an enjoyable ballad called "Tell Me," with Early on lead, backed by a blues-styled jump tune similar to THE PARAGONS' later "Stick with Me Baby" titled "You've Been Gone So Long," featuring David.

   Except for some local play it went unnoticed. In 1959 the Cubans disbanded (they would not have been too popular under that name anyway during Castro's Cuban revolution), and David hooked up with Lummtone Records, owned by Lummie Fowler. He formed the Upfronts. Several years later they became little Caesar & the Romans.

Jay Warner - American singing groups: a history from 1940s to today



Songs :

   
Tell Me (Will You Ever Be Mine)           You've Been Gone So Long

   
Oh Miss Dolly                                    Can't You See

...

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The Caronators

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The Caronators (Detroit)

 

Personnel :

?

 

Discography :

1961 - Long Hot Summer / Senorita (Clock 1045)
1961 - Lonely Street / Fairy Tales (Clock 1047)
1961 - This Is The Time / Casanova (Clock 1049)

Biography :

 

Songs :

   
This Is The Time                               Long Hot Summer

   
 Senorita                                               Fairy Tales

   
Lonely Street                                        Casanova

 

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The Nic Nacs aka The Robins

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The Nic Nacs (Los Angeles)
aka The Robins



Personnel :
 
Mickey Champion (Lead)

Ty Terrell (Tenor)

Bobby Nunn (Tenor)

Roy Richards (Baritone)

Billy Richards (Bass)



Discography :

1950 - Found Me A Sugar Daddy / Gonna Have A Merry Christmas (RPM 313/342)
1951 - Found Me A Sugar Daddy / You Didn't Want My Love (RPM 316)
1950 - I'm Telling You Baby (RPM) (Unreleased)



Biography :

From Recorded In Hollywood, the Robins headed over to the Bihari brothers' RPM Records, a subsidiary of Modern Records. On November 2, 1950, they recorded four songs: "Gonna Have A Merry Christmas," "Found Me A Sugar Daddy," "I'm Telling You Baby," and "You Didn't Want My Love." On all of these except the last, the Robins are paired with Mickey Champion, another Little Esther sound-alike.

   

"Found Me A Sugar Daddy" is an answer to "Double Crossin' Blues," only this time Bobby Nunn characterizes his woman as an ape rather than a bear. Although the group was still under contract to Dolphin, the quartet jumped ship, searching for that elusive payday. Consequently, RPM issued all their records as by the "Nic Nacs" The Robins were understandably reluctant to sign their names to contracts. They'd get a recording deal, do the session, and never hear from the company again. If they were lucky, they'd get five or ten dollars each for the session. This puts the label-hopping that occurred in proper perspective.
http://www.uncamarvy.com/Robins/robins.html
http://www.angelfire.com/mn/coasters/robins.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymar41/robins.html



Songs :

      
I'm Telling You Baby              Found Me A Sugar Daddy 

       
Gonna Have A Merry Christmas   You Didn't Want My Love

 

CDs :

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