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Harry & The Keyavas

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Harry & The Keyavas 

Harry & The Keyavas (Rahway, New Jersey)

 

Personnel :

Harry Starr (Lead)

Jerry Timmons

Kevin Garrity

 

Discography :

Harry & The Keyavas
1963 - If This Is Goodbye / Tears (IPG 1011)

Harry Starr
1966 - Step Into My World / Another Time, Another Place (End 1129)

 

Biography :

C&M Records from Elizabeth,N.J. were a label owned by Castino Queen and Mary Linkowitch (also owners of Wanger Records). The C&M label was just beginning but was about to sign a young black group from Elizabeth called the Nobletones . C&M Records was a small outfit so they worked out of a storefront and these kids happened to be from the neighbourhood and they went in and he recorded them first.   

Harry & The Keyavas   Harry & The Keyavas

Among the Nobletones was Jerry Timmons, who a few years later would again register for C&M as a member of the Keyavas. They recorded two great doo-wop : "If This Is Goodbye" b/w "Tears" as Harry & The Keyavas. Lead singer Harry Starr`s real name was Harrison William Pennington and he was married to Eller Weas Little, aka Elouise Pennington from the Spellbinders. In 1966 Harry Starr recorded "Step Into My World" b/w "Another Time, Another Place" for the End label.

  

Songs :

Harry & The Keyavas

   
  If This Is Goodbye                                        Tears      

Harry Starr

   
Another Time, Another Place                         Step Into My World 

 

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The Arvettes

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(L to R) Phyllis Walker, Mary Clemons and Patricia Allensworth Stephens

The Arvettes (New Kensington / Ford City, PA.)

 

Personnel :

Patricia Allensworth Stephens

Mary Clemons

Phyllis Walker

 

Discography :

1962 - At A School Dance / Lovely Emotions (Hac 100)
1963 - Pledge Of Love / I Want To Dance With You (Ideal 100)
1963 - Stolen Hours / Pledge Of Love (Ideal)
1965 - Stolen Hours / Pledge Of Love (Ideal 272G-3776)

 

Biography :

Vocal group, composed of Phyllis Walker, Mary Clemons and Patty Allensworth Stephens. Phyllis Walker, Mary Clemons were from New Kensington and Patty Allensworth Stephens, is from Ford City. The trio signed a contract with HAC Records named after the three song writing partners, Hal-Al-Chuck. They recorded "At A School Dance" and "Lovely Emotions" released by HAC in 1962.



"At A School Dance" and "Lovely Emotions" was written by Ford City, PA native Frank Tolliver. He was also the writer of "I Found a Dream" and "I Wanna Dance With You" for the Pacers (from Ford City). He and Patricia Allensworth was part of the Pacers who recorded the two songs in 1958 for Calico.  In 1963, Ideal records released their second single with "Pledge Of Love" and "I Want To Dance With You" (written by Frank Tolliver). December of the same year, the label will release a new single with a new title : "Stolen Hours" coupled with "Pledge Of Love".

 

Songs :

  
At A School Dance                        Lovely Emotions

  
       Pledge Of Love                   I Want To Dance With You


Stolen Hours

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Michael & The Continentals (8)

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Michael & The Continentals (8)
1962 - Michael & The Continentals

Michael & The Continentals (8) (Brooklyn, New York)

 

Personnel :

Michael Zarzana (Lead)

Dennis Muro (First Tenor)

Joey Noto (Second Tenor)

Mark Weiner (Baritone)

Billy Schlanger (Bass)

 

Discography :

1967 - Little School Girl / Rain In My Eyes (Audio Fidelity 139)

 

Biography :

Michael and the Continentals were from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn and consisted of Michael Zarzana (lead), Dennis Muro (first tenor), Joey Noto (second tenor), Mark Weiner (baritone) and Billy Schlanger (bass).  Originally, Tony Battiglia was the 2nd tenor but Michael asked Joey Noto to take his place.  All were from Sheepshead Bay and started singing in the early 1960 on the street corners of Brooklyn or any other practice venue the groups could find. They eventually form  "Michael & the Continentals" & sang professionally for 10 years.  The group makes several recordings but nothing comes out. They have to wait until the mid-60s to finally see the release of a single : "Little School Girl" b/w "Rain In My Eyes". There are many unreleased doowop cuts by the Continentals, produced by Barney Zarzana of the Bay Bops.

 

Songs :

 
Little School Girl / Rain In My Eyes

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The Travelers (3)

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The Travelers (3)
(L to R) Bruce Diskin, Richie Solari, Sal Tepedino and Bernie Rosner

The Travelers (3) (Brooklyn, New York)

 

Personnel :

Bernie Rosner  (Lead)

Sal Tepedino

Bruce Diskin

Richie Solari

 

Discography :

1960 - June, July, August (& September) / What A Weekend (ABC Paramount 10119)
1961 - Cadwaller 00002 / Ivy On The Old School Wall (Decca 31215)
1961 - White Rose / (Love Me) Oh My Love (Decca 31282)

 

Biography :

The Travelers were a group out of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn NY. The group members were Bernie Rosner, Sal Tepedino, Bruce Diskin and Richie Solari. They were together for about three years in the early ' 60s.  The Travelers cut three singles between 1960 & 1961. The first for ABC in 1960 with "June, July, August And September" b/w "What A Weekend".

The Travelers (3)    The Travelers (3)

   In 1961, The Travelers signed with Decca Records and cut two singles, "Cadwaller 00002" b/w "Ivy On The Old School Wall" and "White Rose" b/w "Oh My Love". In 1964, Sal Tepedino joined a reshuffled Concords fronted by Mike Lewis with Teddy Grable (ex Star-Drifts) and Bobby Ganz. A contract with Epic Records led to the release of "Should I Cry" b/w " It's Our Wedding Day". A remake of the Quintones' "Down The Aisle Of Love" was the final Concords single in 1966.

 

Songs :

     
White Rose            June, July, August And September         What A Weekend

     
Ivy On The Old School Wall        Oh My Love                    Cadwaller 00002


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The Tifanos

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The Tifanos

The Tifanos (Tifton, Ga)

 

Personnel :

Freddie Simmons

 

Songs :
Singles:
1960 - It's Raining / Louisiana (Tifco 822)
Unreleased :
1960 - The White Cliffs Of Dover (Tifco)

 

Biography :

The Tifanos were local recording artists from the Tifton, Ga area. They recorded 5 songs for Tifco records. The early title was "Drip Drop" changed to "It's Raining". The single was released in 1960 during that time the Payola scandal, which was why it never took off back then without the help of Payola payments to the disc jockeys.

  The Tifanos

Tifco records, a Label owned by James Newton & Gus Statiras, out of Tifton, GA. The label was started as a source for material for larger labels. The only one that ended up going to a larger label was the "Johnny Jenkins & the Pine-Toppers" which included Otis Redding as a band member. Atlantic picked it up (with a short in between label by the Atlantic guy that purchased the songs for Atlantic). The label included several styles of music, R&B, Blues, Teen, Girl Groups, Country, Pop.(

updated by Hans-Joachim

 

Songs :

  
It's Raining                                             Louisiana


The White Cliffs Of Dover 

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Juanita Rogers & The Five Joys

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Juanita Rogers & The Five Joys (Chicago, Il)
(by Hans-Joachim)  

 

 Personnel:

Juanita Rogers (Lead)

Lynn Hollings (Narrator)

4 unidentified males

 

Discography :

Single :
Juanita Rogers And Lynn Hollings (bb Mr. V's Five Joys) / Juanita Roger (bb Mr. V's Five Joys)
1960 - Teenager's Letter Of Promises / I'm So Glad You Love Me (Pink Cloud 333)

Unreleased:
Juanita Rogers
1959 - I'm So Glad You Love Me (studio rehearsal)

 

Biography:

Juanita Rogers was 15 years old, when she recorded “I’m So Glad You Love Me” b/w “Teenager’s Letter Of Promises” in 1959 in somebody’s living room. Lynn Hollings, the narrator on the A-side, was a jazz disc jockey in Chicago during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Juanita Rogers & The Five Joys   Juanita Rogers & The Five Joys
Lynn Hollings                                                                                                                                    

It is not known whether the Five Joys are the same as the “Five Jays” (male lead, female lead, three male backup singers) whose publicity photo is in Robert Pruter’s collection.
http://campber.people.clemson.edu/sunra.html


Songs :


I’m So Glad You Love Me / Teenager’s Letter Of Promises


I’m So Glad You Love Me (rehearsal)

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The Dupries aka Candy & The Corals

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The Dupries aka Candy & The Corals
The Dupries - Joanie Duprey, Dick Schulz & Carol Duprey

The Dupries (St. Paul, Minnesota)
aka Candy & The Corals

 

Personnel :

Dick Schulz (Lead Vocal / Bass Guitar)

Annie Duprey (Vocal)

Joanie Duprey (Vocal)

Carol Duprey (Vocal)

Dave Pilz (Drums)

Dave Parpovich (Lead Guitar)

 

Discography :

The Dupries
1965 - Kissy Face / Baby Doll (Test 100 / Thunderbird 106)

Candy & The Corals
1967 - I Should Have Loved You More / I Know (Test 110)


Biography :

The Dupries, Annie, Joanie & Carol Duprey were from St. Paul, Minnesota as was their band: Dick Schulz (bass and vocal), Dave Pilz (drums) and Dave Parpovich (lead guitar). Dupries was an altered form of the sisters’ last name. In 1965 , they singing in many shows in the Wisconsin area and local Dj and producer Dick Hoff aka Dick Hiliday co-wrote the song "Baby Doll" for the group."Kissy Face" and "Baby Doll " were recorded in May, 1965 for St. Paul label Test Records. Just month after that small-label release they were picked up and re-released on Thunderbird.

The Dupries aka Candy & The Corals    The Dupries aka Candy & The Corals
The Dupries                                                                              Candy & The Corals       

Thunderbird Records was formed in the early 1960s by Len and Ben Weisman. Like its allied label Sahara Records it was named after a Las Vegas gambling casino frequented by an affiliate who later became a partner. Len Weisman is better known locally as Buffalo’s biggest player in the record business, Lenny Silver. "Baby Doll" became a hit locally on WDUZ Green Bay, Wisconsin. After this the girls and band went back to Test Records and got a release as Candy & The Corals and again failing to hit, theydisappeared from our world of records and radio.
https://wnyfm.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/45-friday-the-dupries-kissy-face

 

Songs :

The Dupries

  
Kissy Face                                     Baby Doll


Candy & The Corals


 I Should Have Loved You More / I Know


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The Apollos (1)

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The Apollos (1)
Mike Azzolino

The Apollos (1) (Newark, NJ)

 

Personnel :

Danny Studnicky (Lead)

Joseph Bertolino

James LaParra

Mike Azzolino

George Deutsch

 

Discography :

1959 - I Love You Darling / Bandstand Baby (Harvard 803)


Biography :

The Apollos from Newark, NJ. consisted of Joseph Bertolino, Danny Studnicky, James LaParra, Mike Azzolino, & George Deutsch (with Danny Studnicky singing the lead.) In 1959, The Apollos recorded "I Love You Darling" b/w "Bandstand Baby" released by Harvard records owned by Trade Martin and Johnny Power, the two formed Rome Records in 1960.  This was the group's only release. Legal action or the threat of legal action from Dick Clark over the word "Bandstand" in the flip side's title negatively impacted the sales of the record and caused the group to disband.


Songs :

  
I Love You Darling                                 Bandstand Baby

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The Cosmic Rays

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The Cosmic Rays

The Cosmic Rays (Chicago, IL)

 

Personnel :

Calvin Barron (Lead)

Matt Swif

Lonnie Tolbert

?

 

Discography :

Singles :
1960 - Bye Bye Swift / Somebody's In Love (Saturn 223)
1960 - Dreaming  / Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie (Saturn 401/402)

Unreleased rehearsals:
1954 - Africa**
1955 - Daddy’s Gonna Tell You No Lie*
1955 - Dreaming**
1955 - Somebody’s In Love*
1955 - Summertime**
1955 - There’s A Small Hotel**
1955 - The Second Stop Is Jupiter*
1958 - Black Sky & Blue Moon**
1958 - Bye Bye**
1958 - Come Rain or Come Shine**
1958 - Honey**
1958 - Honey (diff. vers.)**

*home rehearsal
**studio rehearsal

 

Biography :

El Saturn Records is a Record label formed in Chicago in 1957 by Alton Abraham and Sun Ra, along with Abraham’s brother Artis, who founded El Saturn Research in 1957, which would record and distribute albums by the Arkestra as well as the vocal and R&B groups rehearsed by Sun Ra during the late 1950s. Before they were the Cosmic Rays, Calvin Barron, Matt Swif, Lonnie Tolbert and ? were a nameless vocal quartet working outdoors in Chicago’s black neighborhoods during the mid-‘50s. It was on the beach at 63rd and Jackson Park that a man named Raymond Dancer first heard them, liked them and suggested that he manage them. Like Sun Ra, Dancer was a native of Birmingham, Alabama, and he’d seen Ra lead a big band in Birmingham in what must have been a return engagement at a masonic hall sometime in the very early ‘50s. Late in ’56 or early the following year, Dancer met Sun Ra at Budland, during one of his Arkestra appearances at the club. He told Ra about the group and it was Ra’s suggestion that he bring them by and informally audition them. Saturn Records released two singles by the group. Calvin Barron would later join the Moroccos.
https://artyardrecords.co.uk/sun-ra-singles-the-definitive-45s-collection-1952-1991
http://campber.people.clemson.edu/sunra.html



Songs :

  
Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lies               Somebody's In Love           

  
Dreaming                                    Bye Bye Swift

 

Unissued studio rehearsals:

     
     Summertime                        There's A Small Hotel       The Second Stop Is Jupiter

     
             Honey                 Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie          Somebody's In Love

  
            Africa                          Black Sky & Blue Moon


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The Vel-Aires aka The Bel-Aires (3) aka The Rhythm Masters

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The Rhythm Masters
Top : Willie Graham - Middle : Ira Foley & Randolph Bryant - Bottom : Donald Woods

Donald Wood & The Vel-Aires (Los Angeles)
aka The Bel-Aires (3)
aka The Rhythm Masters

 

Personnel :

Donald Woods (Lead)

Randolph Bryant (Tenor)

Willie Graham (Second Tenor)

Ira Foley (Bass)

 

Discography :

The Bel-Aires (3)
1955 - This Paradise / Let's Party Awhile (Flip 303)
1955 - White Port And Lemon Juice / This Is Goodbye (Flip 304)

Donald Woods & The Vel-Aires
1955 - Death Of An Angel / Man From Utopia (Flip 306)
1955 - Stay With Me Always / My Very Own (Flip 309)
1956 - Heaven In My Arms / Mighty Joe (Flip 312)

The Rhythm Masters
1956 -  Baby We Two / Patricia (Flip 314)

 

Biography :

Donald "Buster" Woods originally recorded with The Medallions, from Los Angeles, California. The Medallion's group leader was Vernon Green, but when Woods split from Green he took three of the Medallions with him to form The Bel-Aires, who were known as the Vel-Aires when they weren't backing Woods. In 1954, Flip Records, a small, Hollywood based label, that specialized in Doo-Wop, recorded two Singles by The Bel-Aires, "This is Paradise," backed with "Let's Party Awhile," (Flip #303) and "White Port & Lemon Juice," backed with "This Is Goodbye," (Flip #304).

The Bel-Aires (3) aka The Vel-Aires aka The Rhythm Masters    The Bel-Aires (3) aka The Vel-Aires aka The Rhythm Masters
                                                                                                                        Darryl Perault (Jivers & Rhythm Masters)

In June, Flip issued the group's third record, but by then their name had been changed to the "Vel-Aires." It's probable that this was due to the existence of another West Coast Bel-Aires, this one a black and white duo that had covered Marvin & Johnny's "Tick Tock" on Crown in 1954.  Flip Records recorded two other Singles by Donald Wood & The Vel-Aires. In 1955, Donald Woods had left to try a solo career. Willie, Randolph, and Ira got a replacement tenor: Darryl Perault (who would go on to sing with the Jivers) and, on December 10, 1955, they recorded "Baby We Two" and "Patricia" for Flip as the "Rhythm Masters".
http://www.uncamarvy.com/Medallions/medallions.html


Songs :

The Bel-Aires (3)

    
This Paradise                                Let's Party Awhile

     
White Port And Lemon Juice                        This Is Goodbye         

 

Donald Woods & The Vel-Aires

    
 Heaven In My Arms                         Stay With Me Always

      
Death Of An Angel                            Man From Utopia

   
Mighty Joe                                    My Very Own

 

The Rhythm Masters

   
Baby We Two                                       Patricia

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