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The Knockouts

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The Knockouts

 The Knockouts (North Bergen / Bayonne, New Jersey)
 (By Hans-Joachim)

 

 

 

Personnel:

Bob D’Andrea (Lead)

Eddie Parente (Guitar)

Harry Venuta (Drums) (replaced by Pierre LaSalle in 1960)

Bob Collada (Piano)




Discography :

Singles:
1959 - Darling Lorraine / Riot In Room 3C (Shad 5013)
1960 - Rich Boy - Poor Boy / Please Be Mine (Shad 5018)
1961 - You Can Take My Girl / Fever (MGM 13010)
1964 - Mo Jo (Part 1) (Got My Mo Jo Working) / Mo Jo (Part 2)  (Tribute 199)
1964 - What's On Your Mind / Tweet-Tweet (Tribute 201)
1964 - Don't Say Goodbye (instrumental) / Ecuador (Tribute 203)
1965 - Falling From Paradise* / Ecuador* (Tribute 216)
*credited to Bob D’Andrea & The Knockouts

Unreleased:
1960 - Please Be Mine (Allegro acetate)
N/A - Stormy Weather
N/A - Jungle Mambo

Album:
1964 -Go Ape With The Knockouts (Tribute LP 1202)Mo Jo Pt. 1 / Darling Lorraine* / Tweet Tweet / Ecuador / Poor Boy - Rich Boy** / I Got A Woman Pt. 1 / What’s On Your Mind / Give Me A Chance / Number One Girl / Molly Malone / Don’t Say Goodbye / I Got A Woman Pt. 2
*re-recording, **re-recording of Rich Boy - Poor Boy




 


Biography:

The Knockouts hailed from North Bergen and Bayonne, New Jersey and consisted of Bob D'Andrea (vocals), Eddie Parente (guitar), Bob Collada (piano) and Harry Venuta (drums). In 1959, their manager Chic Salerno persuaded Bob Shad of Time/Brent Records, who'd just come off two hits with "I've had it" by the Bell Notes and "It Was I" by Skip and Flip, to sign his boys.

  

Aware of their limitations as vocalists, The Knockouts hedged their bets by placing "Darling Lorraine", which sounded like a bunch of leathery-faced cowboys breaking into an impromptu doo-wop session around the camp fire. Shad heavily hyped "Darling Lorraine" in New York area in the autumn of '59 and the song ascended to #45 on the charts just before the payola bandwagon came to a crashing halt amid a welter of recriminations and investigations.

  

During the 60's, The Knockouts used to perform in Seaside, NJ at the Parrot Club, Luciano's in Lodi, NJ, in Lyndhurst, NJ and also up at Greenwood Lake, NY on weekends. Bob Catucci (aka Pierre LaSalle) replaced Harry Venuta in 1960.


     
                                            left Eddie Parente, right Bob D'Andrea; back: left. Bob Collada, right Pierre LaSalle

Pierre was with the group in all the recordings that followed Lorraine and stayed with them until the group started to decline in the early mid sixties. Bob D’Adrea went on to form a comedy duo called Andre and Cirell which still performs around the Jersey Shore.



Movie:


Darling Lorraine

 


Songs:

     
Darling Lorraine (short ending)  Darling Lorraine (alt. take with long ending)  Riot In Room 3c

     
Rich Boy - Poor Boy                 Please Be Mine              You Can Take My Girl

     
Fever                                    Mo Jo Pt. 1                  What’s On Your Mind

     
Tweet-Tweet                       Don’t Say Goodbye                   Ecuador

     
Darling Lorraine (album version)   Poor Boy - Rich Boy (album version)  Give Me A Chance

     
I Got A Woman Part 1             I Got A Woman Part 2             Number One Girl

      
Molly Malone                      Stormy Weather                    Jungle Mambo


 Please Be Mine

 

 

...

 

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The Five Thrills (1) aka the Earls (1)

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 The Five Thrills (1) aka the Earls (1) The Five Thrills (1) (Chicago)
aka the Earls (1)

 

Personnel :

Gilbert Warren (Lead Tenor)

Oscar Robinson (Baritone)

Fred Washington (Baritone)

Obie Washington (Second Tenor)

Levi Jenkins (Bass / Piano)

 

Discography :

The Five Thrills (1)
Singles :
1953 - My Baby's Gone / Feel So Good (Parrot 796)
1954 - Wee Wee Baby / Gloria (Parrot 800)
Unreleased :
1953 - My Saddest Hour
1953 - All I Want
1953 - Ride Jimmy Ride
1953 - Rockin' at Midnight
1953 - So Long Young Girl

The Earls (1)   
1954 - Laverne / Darlene (Girl of My Dreams) (Parrot 803 )

 

Biography :

Parrot Records was a Chicago-based label founded in 1952 by disc jockey Al Benson. It specialized in blues, jazz, doo-wop, and gospel. The Five Thrills were basically an aggregation of young men who lived Thirty-first Street and began singing together in 1950, while they were still students at Douglas Elementary School at Thirty-second and Calumet.

     The Five Thrills (1) aka the Earls (1)
Al Benson                                                                                                  

The Five Thrills flashed onto the R&B scene in Chicago for a year during 1953-54 and then disappeared forever. During that year, they were the most frequently recorded group on Parrot. By early 1954, Robinson had left the group and was replaced with Leon Pace . Two sides from their last session (Parrot 800) were released under a new name : "The Earls".
Robert Pruter "Doowop: the Chicago scene"
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/parrot.html

 

Songs :

The Five Thrills (1)

     
My Baby's Gone                      Feel So Good                  Ride Jimmy Ride

     
Gloria / Wee Wee Baby           So Long Young Girl                       Gloria

     
Wee Wee Baby                     All I Want                      Rockin' At Midnight


The Earls (1)

  
           Laverne                      Darlene (Girl Of My Dreams)

 

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The Dixie Cups

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The Dixie Cups (New Orleans, Louisiana)
 (By Hans-Joachim)


Personnel:

Barbara Ann Hawkins

Rosa Lee Hawkins

Joan Marie Johnson



Discography:

Singles:
1964 - Chapel Of Love / Ain't That Nice (Red Bird 10-001)
1964 - People Say / Girls Can Tell (Red Bird 10-006)
1964 - You Should Have Seen The Way He Looked At Me / No True Love (Red Bird 10-012)
1964 - Little Bell / Another Boy Like Mine (Red Bird 10-017)
1965 - Iko Iko / I'm Gonna Get You Yet (Red Bird 10-024)
1965 - Iko Iko / Gee Baby Gee (Red Bird 10-024)
1965 - Gee, The Moon Is Shining Bright / I'm Gonna Get You Yet (Red Bird 10-032)
1965 - That's Where It's At / Two-Way-Poc-A-Way (ABC Paramount 10692)
1965 - I'm Not The Kind Of Girl (To Marry) / What Goes Up, Must Come Down (ABC Paramount 10715)
1965 - A-B-C Song / That's What The Kids Said (ABC Paramount 10755)
1966 - Love Ain't So Bad (After All) / Daddy Said No (ABC Paramount 10855)

Unreleased:
1964 - Wrong Direction (Red Bird) [released in 1979 on the Charly LP CRM 2004]

Albums:

1964 - The Dixie Cups "Chapel Of Love" (Red Bird LP 20-100)
Chapel Of Love / Gee, The Moon Is Shining Bright / I'm Gonna Get You Yet / Ain't That Nice / Thank You Mama Thank You Papa / Another Boy Like Mine / /Gee Baby Gee / Iko Iko /Girls Can Tell / All Grown Up /People Say


1965 - The Dixie Cups "Iko Iko"  (Red Birl LP 20-103)
Iko Iko / Chapel Of Love / Gee The Moon Is Shining Bright / I'm Gonna Get You Yet / Ain't That Nice / Thank You Mama, Thank You Papa / Gee Baby Gee / Another Boy Like Mine / Girls Can Tell / All Grown Up / People Say


1965 -  The Dixie Cups "Riding High" (ABC Paramount LP 525)
What Goes Up, Must Come Down / Two-Way-Poc-A-Way / That's Where It's At / Sugar That I Need / I'm Not The Kind Of Girl (To Marry) / I've Got To Get That Boy / Danny Boy / Chances Are / Here It Comes Again / I'll Never Let The Well Run Dry / Promises, Promises



 


Biography:

The Dixie Cups came from New Orleans and had one giant hit along with several other records before slipping into rock history. The three girls who comprised the group were Barbara Ann Hawkins [born 1943], her sister Rosa Lee Hawkins [born 1944] and their cousin Joan Marie Johnson [born 1945]

   

. All were from New Orleans. Originally known as Little Miss and the Muffets, the girls were discovered at a talent contest. New Orleans record producer/singer Joe Jones, who had a top ten hit of his own in 1960 with You Talk Too Much, liked their act and brought the girls to the Brill Building in New York.

In 1964 they began to rehearse a song that had been written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector titled Chapel Of Love. Spector produced a version of the same song by one of his groups, the Crystals, that went unissued. He also produced a version by another one of his groups, the Ronettes, which coincidentally was also comprised of two sisters and their cousin.


With Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich

Although it appeared to everyone involved that Chapel Of Love had "hit" written all over it, Spector was somewhat apprehensive about releasing the song. Barry and Greenwich arranged a rehearsal for the girls from New Orleans at Red Bird Records, a new label that was owned by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

  

The group was renamed the Dixie Cups, and their version of Chapel Of Love was released in 1964 on Red Bird. It became a huge international hit, a million seller, and a solid number one record in the United States. It also was a huge boost to Red Bird, which a short time later would become the home of another enormously successful girl group from New York City, the Shangri-Las. Spector later issued the Ronettes' version of Chapel Of Love on an album.

The Dixie Cups added two more top forty hits in 1964, People Say and You Should Have Seen The Way He Looked At Me. When there was a pause in one of their recording sessions, the girls began a chanting song that they had learned in New Orleans called Iko Iko.

  

It was a call-and-respond type of chant with some percussion in the background, and when they recorded it, it became their final top forty record, in the Spring of 1965. Iko Iko was covered by a British female band called the Belle Stars in the 80's, and when this version was used in the movie Rain Man it made a return to the top forty in 1989.

The Dixie Cups   

The Dixie Cups' run on the charts didn't last very long, but their brief run was enough to make them one of the memorable girl groups of the Sixties.

http://lpintop.tripod.com/thedixiecups/id1.html
http://www.tsimon.com/dixiecup.htm
http://www.history-of-rock.com/dixie_cups.htm
http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/The-Dixie-Cups.html
http://www.oocities.org/williamstos/dixiecups.html
http://www.rocky-52.net/chanteursd/dixie_c.htm
http://www.sunrecords.com/artists/the-dixie-cups
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-dixie-cups-mn0000152251/biography
https://www.wwno.org/post/50-years-chapel-love-dixie-cups-1-hit
http://www.npr.org/2014/06/05/318877574/chart-topping-chapel-of-love-turns-50?ft=1&f
http://www.soulfulkindamusic.net/dixiecups.htm
http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Dixie Cups.html
http://www.45cat.com/artist/the-dixie-cups




Movies:

 
Chapel Of Love

 
Iko Iko


I’m Gonna Get You Yet


You Should Have Seen The Way He Looked At Me




Songs:

     
Chapel Of Love                     Ain't That Nice                     People Say

      
Girls Can Tell         You Should Have Seen The Way He Looked At Me         No True Love

       
Little Bell                        Another Boy Like Mine                        Iko Iko

      
I'm Gonna Get You Yet                    Gee Baby Gee      Gee, The Moon Is Shining Bright (mono single version)

      
Gee, The Moon Is Shining Bright (stereo album version)     Wrong Direction       That's Where It's At

        
Two-Way-Poc-A-Way         I'm Not The Kind Of Girl (To Marry)     A-B-C Song

      
What Goes Up, Must Come Down        That's What The Kids Said     Love Ain't So Bad (After All)

     
Daddy Said No        Thank You Mama, Thank You Papa       Sugar That I Need

        
I've Got To Get That Boy           Danny Boy                  Chances Are

       
Here It Comes Again     I'll Never Let The Well Run Dry            Promises, Promises

  
Iko Iko (unreleased alternate take)      People Say (unreleased alternate take)

 

 

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The Honeytones (1)

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The Honeytones (1) 

The Honeytones (1) (Jersey City, N.J.)

 

Personnel :

Shirley Kee

Jacqueline Givens

Gloria Givens

Grace Givens

 

Discography :

1955 - Somewhere, Sometime, Someday / Too Bad (Mercury 70557)
1955 - False Alarm / Honeybun Cha Cha (Wing 90013)

 

Biography :

The Honeytones are a female quartet, in 1955 they closed a successful engagement at Harlem's Baby Grand.

The group includes Shirley Kee, 20, and the Givens sisters — Jacqueline, 18, Gloria, 19, and Grace, 21,  all of whom attend high school in Jersey City,  N. J., and do their homework backstage between acts.

They have been in show business since winning a I Mack Amateur Hour show in 1951. The Honeytones cut two singles for Mercury and Wing. Wing Records was a record label subsidiary of Mercury, founded in 1955. 

 The Honeytones  perform at the Apollo Theater with such greats as Hal Jackson, the Solitaires and the Cadillacs .

 

Songs :
 (Update By Hans-Joachim)

     
False Alarm                                Honeybun Cha Cha


Somewhere, Sometime, Someday / Too Bad 

 

 

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The Del-Airs (1)

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 The Del-Airs (1) (Philadelphia)

 

Personnel :

Jack Lodato (Lead)

John Bersami (First Tenor)

Gus Mellace (Second Tenor)

Ronald "Ronny Pro" Provenzano (Bass)

Ronald Santora (Baritone)

 

Discography :

1962 - While Walkin' / Lost My Job (M.B.S 01)
1964 - I took A Long Time / Ma Ma Marie (Delsey 302)

 

Biography :

John Bersami, Gus Mellace, Ronny Pro and Ron Santora were practicing and were always looking for a lead. They met Jack Lodato at the Corner of Porter and Hutchinson Street.  Jack Lodato made his bones chirping with the Velchords which consisted of Himself, The Bruni Twins (Future Records), John DePalma (Later in The Prmiers on Mink), Junior Gigliotti and Bobby Cramatola (Later in the Fantasys).

  
Bersani, Lodato (Top), Santora, Mellace (Bottom)                                                                                                  

   With Jack Lodato, The Del-Airs returned to rehearsal, learning such ditties as "Two people in the World", "Tears  On My Pillow", "Teardrops", Long lonely night".  They became so accomplished, Bruce Reed, their Manager, landed them all types of guestings even though they had no recordings.  Joe Rocco (Mellace), Gus's older brother, a music veteran from the Day Brothers, arranged a get-together with Morris Ballen, Owner-operator of M.B.S record at Broad & Walmut in center city. They Cut "While Walkin'" and "Lost My Job" on M.B.S 01.

  

They appears on television and radio  and in 1964, they signed a contract recording with Delsey Records and cut "I took A Long Time" and "Ma Ma Marie".


Songs :

  
While Walkin'                          Lost My Job

  
I took A Long Time                     Ma Ma Marie

 

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The Sinceres (1)

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The Sinceres (1)  

The Sinceres (1) (Allentown, PA)

 

Personnel :

Jay Proctor (Bass)

Billy Floyd


Discography : 

1960 - You're Too Young / Forbidden Love (Jordan 117)

 

Biography :

The Sinceres was a mixture of Allentown boys and some boys from Bethlehem Fronted by bass singer Jay Proctor.  A boy named Billy Floyd wrote a song called 'You're Too Young". There was a guy who owned a paint company, and he decided he would like to see what he could do with the group.  He took The Group underfoot for a little bit, and he paid for having a record recorded and stuff. Backed with "Forbidden Love" it was issued on the Jordan logo in 1960. It sold about 100 copies. That was the name of the paint company, Jordan Paint. Except for some local play, the record was ignored, sold poorly.

The Sinceres (1)   

Jay & the Techniques

George "Lucky" Lloyd arrived in Allentown from Jacksonville, Fl., at the age of 19 to live with his grandfather. Lloyd was an aspiring singer who made his first recording in 1959 with a group called the Joylarks and a second single with the same Group as the Floridians. In Allentown, he met young Jay Proctor and started a new group, Jay & the Techniques.

 

Songs :

  
Forbidden Love                      You're Too Young


..

 

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The Del-Tones (2)

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The Del-Tones (2) (Brewer, Maine)




Personnel :

Jim Richardson (Lead)

Steve Currie (Baritone)

Adrian Hallet (Bass/Guitar)

Bob King (Tenor)



Discography :

1959 - Laura Lee (Unreleased)




Biography :

Fifteen year old Steve Currie formed the Del-Tones with three other Brewer, Maine high schoolers in the fall of 1956. They Choose the name the Del-Tones out of admiration for the Del-Vikings whose tunes they often performed. Jim Winters, star of WABI radio and his own area record hops, helped launch their career by booking the group all over eastern and northern Maine.


Hallet, King, Currie, Richardson

They did TV with Curly O'Brian and Dick Curless and in 1957 played to a capacity crowd at the Brewer Auditorium opening for Curless, who had just won Top honors on the Arthur Godfrey Talent show. Jimmy Hayden would sub for the sometimes absent Hallet and Robinson worked occasionally with the Statics, but for the most patron of the Del-Tones maintained a steady lineup. In 1959, the guys auditioned for Event Records who offered to cut a record if the boys coughed up half the cost. They Didn't and Event didn't.




Songs :


Laura Lee

 

 

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The Manhattan Brothers

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The Manhattan Brothers (South Africa)
 (By Hans-Joachim)



Personnel:

Joe Mogotsi

Ronnie Sehume

Rufus Khoza

Nathan 'Dambuza' Mdledle

Miriam Makeba (for a while)




Discography (excerpt):

1948 - Pesheya’ Kwezo Ntaba / Bodo Lom Sobo (Gallotone GE.973)
1950 - Abazali Bam (When The Saints Go Marchin' In) / Sana Lwam (Swanee River) (Gallotone GE. 957)
1950 - Skokiaan / Karekwangu (Gallotone GB.1152)
1951 - Amazw'amndi (Honey Be My Honey Bee) / Wami-Wami (Satchelmouth Baby) (Gallotone 1277)
1951 - Ndimi Lo (Rag Mop) / Makanise (Gallotone GB.1279)
1953 - Marie / Umtwana Wezizwe (Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar) (Gallotone GB.1855)
1953 - Ulitemba Letu / Ndizimisele Ukutandaza (Gallotone GB.1856)
1954 - Baby Ntsoare* / Laku Tshoni ‘Ilanga*(Gallotone GB.2007)
1956 - Lovely Lies*/ Kilimanjaro (London 1610)

*with Miriam Makeba



Biography:

The Manhattan Brothers was one of the most influential vocal groups in the history of South Africa's music. During the late '40s and '50s, the group appeared regularly on South African television and radio and influenced succeeding generations with their style of dress, speech, attitude, and lifestyle.

The first South African group to have a record in the Top 100 chart compiled by Billboard - "Lovely Lies," which reached number 45 in March 1956 - The Manhattan Brothers have continued to influence the music of South Africa. A celebration of their first CD, The Best of The Manhattan Brothers, at the Blues Room in Sandton in October 1999, featured a performance by a group calling themselves, the Junior Manhattan Brothers.



The origin of the Manhattan Brothers goes back to the early '30s when four vocalists - Joe Mogotsi, Rufus Khoza, Ronnie Majola Sehume, and group leader, Nathan "Dambuzza" Mdledle - were attending the Pimville Government School. Recording their first singles in 1948, the group quickly became superstars in their homeland.

  

Despite their fame, however, the four singers struggled under apartheid. Although they attempted on several occasions to perform outside South Africa, the state government denied them permission to leave. In a 1999 interview, Mogotsi recalled, "We were victimized because we refused to perform in the Van Riebeeck Festival in Cape Town."

The Manhattan Brothers were accompanied by the finest musicians in South Africa. Their band, which was led by composer and saxophonist Mackay Davashe, featured saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi, drummer General Duze, and pianist Sol Klaaste. The band later added Hugh Masakela and Jonas Gwangwa and was renamed the Jazz Dazzlers.

In the early '50s, The Manhattan Brothers expanded with the addition of female vocalist Miriam Makeba. Their first recording with Makeba, "Lakutshona Ilanga," was released in 1953.

  
Miriam Makeba

Five years later, the group appeared in a musical, King Kong, with Mdledle in the role of black African boxer Ezekiel "King Kong" Dlemani, Mogotsi as a gangster, Khoza and Sehume as gang members, and Makeba as the female lead. The musical was extremely successful and the troupe travelled to England for performances in 1961.

A change in the South African government while The Manhattan Brothers were in England, however, prevented them from returning and they remained in England. While they initially continued performing, Sehume left the group within a few months and was replaced by Walter Loate.

  

By the 1990s, the Manhattan Brothers had faded into the past. Although Mogotsi remained active as the leader of a London-based band, Joe Mogotsi and the Manhattans, Khoza and Sehume had retired from music and Mdledle had died.

Interest in the Manhattan Brothers was revived when they were the subject of a documentary video, Songs From the Golden City. A 20-tune album, The Best of the Manhattan Brothers, which included two previously unreleased songs ("Hlompa" and "Be My Guest"), followed in 1999. Shortly before the album's release, Mogotsi and Khoza returned to South Africa.
Craig Harris, All Music Guide
http://www.vocalgroupharmony.com/Umajuba.htm
http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/pebble.asp?relid=7845


Songs :

     
Pesheya’ Kwezo Ntaba            Abazali Bam                   Sana Lwam

     
Amazw'amndi                        Wami-Wami                          Marie

     
Umtwana Wezizwe               Baby Ntsoare             Laku Tshoni ‘Ilanga

  
Lovely Lies                                  Kilimanjaro

 

 

Cds :

  

 

 

 

 

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The Debonaires (2) aka The Jades (4) aka The Debonairs (1)

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The Jades (4) aka The Debonairs (1) aka The Debonaires (2)

The Debonairs (1) (Long Beach, CA)
aka The Debonaires (2) aka The Jades (4)

 

Personnel :

Arthur Holly (Lead)

David Kelly

Joe Sprewell (Tenor , Piano)

Willie "Hootie" Melvin

Bobby Miles (Bass)

 

Discography :

The Debonairs (1)
Singles :
1957 - Why Can't We Be As Other Lovers Are / The Bill Collector (Combo 129)
1957 - Cause Of A Bad Romance / For The Woman I Love (Combo 149)
Unreleased :
1957 - In My Memories (Combo)
1957 - Christmas Time (Combo)
1957 - Crazy Santa Claus (Combo)
1957 - Nita (Combo)

The Debonaires (2)
Singles :
1959 - Every Once In A While / Mama Don't Care (Dore 526)
1961 - Every Once In A While / Gert's Skirt (Dore 592/702/795)
1962 - Hold Back The Dawn / Mama Don't Care (Dore 654)
1964 - Everybody's Movin' / Mama Don't Care (Dore 712)
Unreleased :
1959 - Dorothy (Dowley)
1959 - Laura (Dowley)
1959 - Fare Thee Well (Dowley)

The Jades (4)
1963 - Hold Back The Dawn / Mama Don't Care (Dore 687)

 

Biography :

The Debonairs from Long Beach, California, evolved through numerous line-up changes into an accomplished amateur vocal group in the early 50s. They recorded some material for Johnny Otis' Dig label in 1956 and for Dootsie Williams in 1957 but this was shelved.

The Jades (4) aka The Debonairs (1) aka The Debonaires (2)    The Jades (4) aka The Debonairs (1) aka The Debonaires (2)

Jake Porter                                                                                                         

Jake Porter was one of the select group of independent record company owners who gave us the best of West Coast R&B and doo-wop music. Starting in the early 50s and persevering until the early 70s, Jake recorded numerous groups, duos and R&B outfits for his Los Angeles-based Combo label. Jake Porter recorded the Debonairs and released "Why Can't We Be As Other Lovers Are" b/w "The Bill Collector" and "Cause Of A Bad Romance" b/w "For The Woman I Love". When these failed to sell, they split up.

The Jades (4) aka The Debonairs (1) aka The Debonaires (2)

Reforming in 1959 with different personnel, the Debonaires laid down some tunes for the Downey label, run from a record store in the LA suburb of that name but, yet none of this was issued. Their next stop, a session for Dore on 17 June 1959, 'Every In A While', an outstanding ballad featuring Joe Sprewell on lead. It became such a favourite of Bedell's that he issued it four times between 1959 and 1967. In an attempt to update the arrangement, some extraneous overdubs including strings were added to the 1967 pressing .

 

Songs : 

 

The Debonairs (1)

  
Cause Of A Bad Romance                   The Bill Collector       

  
Why Can't We Be As Other Lovers Are          For The Woman I Love         

  
Crazy Santa Claus                              Christmas Time     

  
    Nita                                             In My Memories

 

The Debonaires (2)

  
              Doroyhy                         Every Once In A While / Gert's Skirt

  
 Hold Back The Dawn                            Mama Don't Care        


Everybody's Movin'

 

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