Doo Wop - Rhythm & Blues

The New Notes

Posted on December 10 2016 by dion1

The New Notes

The New Notes (Sydney, Australia)

Personnel :

John Bartlett

Peter Griffiths

Ralph Griffiths

Discography :

Singles :
The New Notes
1960 - I Am / My Sweetie Pie (Rex RS-09)
1960 - Need Someone To Love Me / Sing Sing Sing (Rex RS-015)

Col Joy with the Graduates & The New Notes
1959 - Bad Man / Dreamy Eyes (Festival FK3135)

Col Joy with The Joy Boys & The New Notes
1959 - Rockin’ Rollin’ / Fools Like Me (Not Them) (Festival FK3082)

John Laws & The New Notes
1959 - Be Kind To Each Other / Someone New (Festival FK3098)

The Maori Troubadours & The New Notes
1960 - Lovely Hula Hands / Shakin' In The Shaky Isles (Not Them) (Rex RS-011 / Festival FX10463)

Margaret Hooper With Ron Hardy And The Hardi-Men & The New Notes
1960 - One Step Beyond / The Way We Are (Rex RS-04)

Dig Richards & The R'Jays & The New Notes
1960 - Annie Laurie / South Of The Border (Rex 001)

Eps :

1960 - Rex 4 Star (Rex 1002)
I Am ( The New Notes) / You're Free To Go (Margaret Hooper With Ron Hardy And The Hardi-Men And The New Notes)

The New Notes

1961 - John Laws - A Lover's Question (FX-10,080)
Be Kind To Each Other (John Laws & The New Notes) / Someone New (John Laws & The New Notes)

The New Notes

Lp :

1959 - Dig Richards & The R'Jays (Festival FL7119)
With The New Notes :
You Are My Sunshine / I'm Through / Hush-a-Bye

The New Notes

Biography :

Australian vocal trio from Sydney consisting of John Bartlett, Peter Griffiths & Ralph Griffiths. They starting singing together in 1959. They backed many artists on Festival Records like Col Joy, John Laws or The Maori Troubadours. Festival Records (later known as Festival Mushroom Records) was an Australian recording and publishing company founded in Sydney in 1952 .

The New Notes

Dig Richards & The R'Jays

A new subsidiary label has been started at Festival called Rex Records. Now under contract to Rex, the New Notes write their own material "My Sweetie Pie", "Need Someone To Love Me" and "Sing Sing Sing" and cut two singles under their name in 1960. They backed Dig Richards and his group, The R'Jays on "Hush-a-Bye", "I'm Through" and other .

The New Notes
From Left, Ralph Griffiths, John Bartlett and Peter Griffiths

In 1960, they are rated as the most improved vocal group trio in the country and are also noted for their own compositions. They make regular appearances on "Bandstand" and "Six O'Clock Rock" and are heard on many radio. They make personnel Appearances at Dances and various night-spots in Sidney.

Songs :

The New Notes

I Am

Dig Richards & The R'Jays & The New Notes


       Hush-a-Bye                      I'm Through                    South Of The Border


You Are My Sunshine                            Annie Laurie

John Laws & The New Notes


Be Kind To Each Other                Someone New

Col Joy / The New Notes


   Bad Man                          Dreamy Eyes                                 Rockin’ Rollin’

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The Five Owls aka The Thunderbirds (1) ?

Posted on December 8 2016 by dion1

The Five Owls aka The Thunderbirds (1) ?

The Five Owls (Birmingham, Alabama)
aka The Thunderbirds (1) ?

Personnel :

Oliver (Charles?) Henderson

Robert Harris

Moses B. Dickerson

Thomas Sumlin

Rufus R. White

Discography :

The Five Owls
1955 - Pleading to You / I Like Moonshine (Vulcan 302)

The Thunderbirds (1)
1955 - Baby, Let's PLay House / Pledging My Love (Deluxe 6075)
1955 - Love is A Problem / Rock Boom Boom (G. G. 518)

Biography :

Abbey Records his a little label based in New York City was the creation of Peter Doraine, and was his attempt to become a major player in the world of the Rhythm & Blues independent record companies during the late 1940s. In May of 1955, it is announced that former New York record producer Doraine, now located in Birmingham, Alabama, will begin a new R & B label called Vulcan Records. The first of only two known releases for the label is "Pleading To You" / "I Like Moonshine" by The Five Owls on Vulcan #1025.

The Five Owls aka The Thunderbirds (1) ?

Marv Goldberg say : The lead singer on "I Like Moonshine" is the same voice as on the Thunderbirds' "Love Is A Problem" (G G 103 - another Birmingham label - it's from November 1955 and the flip is "Rock Boom Boom"). The writers of "Love Is A Problem" were Peter Doraine (A&R man for the label, as he was for Vulcan) and "Sumtin", who has to be the same guy as the "Sumton" on the 5 Owls label (but I don't know which spelling is correct). In 1940, there were several people named "Sumton" (all in North Carolina) and only one "Sumtin" (in Florida). It's the only unusual name out of the five, so looking up the others wouldn't do much good. (However, there is a Charles Henderson in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1940 census who was born in 1934, so he's a good choice.) I believe (although I don't remember why) that the lead singer on both those songs is Charles Henderson). I've always thought that the two groups were the same, but that would have to be checked with someone who has a very good ear for voices.
Thanks to Michael Sweeney for the personnel

Songs :

The Five Owls

Pleading to You I Like Moonshine

The Thunderbirds (1)


Baby, Let's PLay House                             Pledging My Love


Love is A Problem                                Rock Boom Boom

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Linda Carr & The Impossibles (2) aka The Chandeliers (2) aka The Cheerios (1)

Posted on December 4 2016 by dion1

The Chandeliers (2) aka The Cheerios (1) aka The Impossibles (2)
Bobby Sanders

Linda Carr & The Impossibles (2) (Los Angeles)
aka The Chandeliers (2)
aka The Cheerios (1)

Personnel :

Bobby Sanders (Lead)

Ralph Chestnut (Bass)

Clotelle King

Andrew Bayone (Cheerios & Chandeliers)

Joe Lawson (Cheerios & Chandeliers)

Discography :

Linda Carr & The Impossibles (2)
1961 - I'll Never Get Married / Happy Teenager (Skyla 1111)
1961 - (I'm In Love With) The Garbage Man / Shy One (Ray Star 779)

The Cheerios (1)
1961 - Ding Dong Honeymoon / Where Are You Tonight (Infinity 11)

The Chandeliers (2)
1962 - Give Me Your Love / She's A Heartbreaker (Sue 761)

Biography :

Linda Carr was just 14 years of age at the time of this, her debut recording. Her powerful voice belied her tender years. In '61, talent scount, recording artists producer and writer, Bobby Sanders (real name: Jerome Lenoir) brought gifted singer, Linda Carr to producer Steve Venet. Happy Teenager happily launched her long and remarkable international singing career as one of the queens of the Northern Soul musical genre. The writer, Richard George, had written many songs while at UCLA and later while working in the Hollywood film industry.

The Chandeliers (2) aka The Cheerios (1) aka The Impossibles (2)

He wrote Happy Teenager as an answer song to Dion's Lonely Teenager. Steve Venet arranged to record her with Bobby Sanders, Ralph Chestnut and Clotelle King billed as the Impossibles. Steven Venet next recorded Linda's follow-up release, I'm in Love With the Garbage Man, a clever and fun record. In '64, Linda signed with Sam Cooke's Sar label with Steve Venet producing the release with Sanders and Cooke doing the backup work. Next she signed with Don Costa's DCP label and in '65 had a release that got some action. In '66, she had several releases on the Bell label and later with the Ranwood label. She had the talent but never had the song or promotion to make it big.

The Chandeliers (2) aka The Cheerios (1) aka The Impossibles (2)

After their singles with Linda, the Impossibles, Bobby Sanders, Ralph Chestnut and Clotelle King recruited Andrew Bayone & Joe Lawson. The Quintet with Bobby Sanders on Lead had a release on Infinity in September 1961 billed as The Cheerios. They also recorded for Sue Record as The Chandeliers. During this period, Bobby Sanders also recorded as a single artist and with Dorsey High School friends as the Extremes.

Songs :

Linda Carr & The Impossibles (2)


   Happy Teenager      I'll Never Get Married


(I'm In Love With) The Garbage Man                 Shy One

The Cheerios (1)


Ding Dong Honeymoon                    Where Are You Tonight

The Chandeliers (2)


Give Me Your Love                         She's A Heartbreaker

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Tony & The Twilights (5)

Posted on December 3 2016 by dion1

Tony & The Twilights (5)
(Paste-up picture) Top : Donnie Milo, Joe Gugliarda & Joe Agugliaro - bottom : Tony Passalacqua

Tony & The Twilights (5) (Brooklyn, NY)

Personnel :

Tony Passalacqua (Lead)

Joe Agugliaro (Baritone)

Joe Gugliarda (Bass)

Donnie Milo (Second Tenor)

Discography :

Tony Richards & The Twilights (5)
Single :
1960 - Paper Boy / Please Believe In Me (Colpix 178)
Unreleased :
1961 - September Song (Colpix)

Tony Richards
1961 - Shout My Name / Summer Is Coming (Colpix 199)

Biography :

Tony & the Twilights, also known as Tony Richards & The Twilights, were an offshoot of three different groups from the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, NY. Tony Richards, aka Tony Passalacqua, had sung with the Fascinators, a quartet formed in Bushwick in 1957. Among the Fascinators' rivals and contemporaries were the Clusters, who were friends of Passalacqua's, and the Markels, another Bushwick-based group, who scored a modest hit in 1958 with "Letter of Love." When the Fascinators broke up in 1961, Passalacqua hooked up with Joe Gugliarda (The Clusters) and Joe Agugliaro (who were cousins) of the Markels, and Donnie Milo, formerly of the Clusters, essentially forming a reconstituted Clusters.

Tony & The Twilights (5)
Tony Passalacqua (Tony Richards)

The new group was called the Twilights and the group was signed to Colpix Records, but they immediately ran into trouble when their first single was issued as The Twilights featuring Tony Richards, which was soon changed to Tony & the Twilights. The inevitable ego clashes ensued and the group split up in the next year. Tony Richards, as he was billed, later recorded as Tony Mitchell, but never recaptured the promise of his early work with the Fascinators.

Songs :

Tony Richards & The Twilights (5)


Please Believe In Me                                    Paper Boy

Tony Richards


Shout My Name                                Summer Is Coming

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The Fabulous Tones

Posted on December 2 2016 by dion1

The Fabulous Tones (1960) 1st row: Joe Alexander, Shirley Hunter, Herman Hill;
2nd row: Teddy Rambo, Jesse Davis, Rudy Hunter; 3rd row: Count Yates, John Harris

The Fabulous Tones (Los Angeles)

Personnel :

Rudy Hunter (Lead)

Joe Alexander (Baritone)

John Harris

Norman Alexander

Discography :

1957 - You've Broken My Heart / Mr. Hog Face (Rushmore 103)
1958 - Close To You / ??? (Ebb 135)
1959 - Lover, Lover, Lover / I’ll Never Cry Again (Mark 56 819)

Biography :

The Four Tones were a vocal group formed in the mid 1930s at Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee. By the late 1930s they started their recording career in Los Angeles and they appeared in a few films. Singing bass for this group was Dusty Brooks. He was often the featured performer and on several of their recordings they were billed as Dusty Brooks and the Four Tones.

The Four Tones

In early 1954, Rudy Hunter took over the leadership of the group, which consisted of Joe Alexander and Ruby Thrower Joined by Alexander's brother, Norman, the group became Rudy Hunter & the Fabulous Tones with Brooks joining in as bass on occasion. Their minimum requirement for prospective group members was to have the ability to play 5 separate instruments as well as being able to sing. They make many appearances, for several years all over the country. The Fabulous Tones issued 45's on the Rushmore in 1957, The Ebb label in 1958 and George Garabedian's Mark 56 label in 1959. Garabedian would use the group to back demos that be contracted for songwriters and hopeful singing stars.

Jesse Davis

The group makes numerous staff changes over the years, Jesse Ervin, Rudy Hunter, Count Yates, Sammy Yates, Shirley Hunter, Herman Hill, Teddy Rambo, John Harris and Jazz singer’ Jesse Davis. Jesse Davis is known as a Jazz singer but his repertoire includes, R&B, Pop, Latin, and Swing. Jesse Davis started his professional career singing in a few clubs in Michigan, with the Doug Cook Combo, and on his own, before joining in 1958 The Fabulous Tones in Los Angeles as a featured singer.

Songs :
(updated by Hans-Joachim)

I’ll Never Cry Again You've Broken My Heart

Close To You

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