Doo Wop - Rhythm & Blues

The Hill Sisters

Posted on April 17 2021 by dion1

The Hill Sisters (Hazel Park, Michigan)

Personnel :

Lynne Hill

Carol Hill

Beverly Hill

Discography :

The Hill Sisters
Single :
1959 - Hit And Run Away Love / Advertising For Love (Anna 1103)
Unreleased:
1959 - Love Me (Anna)

Jackie Carbone bb The Hill Sisters
1960 - Let Me Go Daddy-O / The Lovely Lady In Blue (Ciro’s 1002)
1960 - Song Of Napoli / The Voice Of Love (Ciro’s 1003/1004)

Biography :

Lynne Hill, Carol Hill and Beverly Hill started their music career back in 1955 and was part of a singing trio, The Hill Sisters, singing for school and church functions. They also performed live on the "Soupy Sales" show in 1959 performing "I hear It Everywhere". In 1959, they released a record on Barry Gordy's "Anna Records" with the songs "Hit And Run Away Love" and "Advertising For Love".

Jackie Carbone The Hill Sisters

Anna Records was a short-lived record label, known as a forerunner of Motown, founded by sisters Anna and Gwen Gordy and Roquel Billy Davis in 1959 and located in Detroit, Michigan. Gwen Gordy and Davis had written hit songs for Jackie Wilson and Etta James prior to founding the label. The Trio sang back-up vocals on a few different records for a promising young vocalist named Jackie Carbone on "Let Me Go Daddy-O" and "The Lovely Lady In Blue", "Song Of Napoli" and " The Voice Of Love" both singles released by Circo's Records .In 1960/61, the Hill Sisters decided to end their music career.

Songs :

The Hill Sisters


Advertising for Love                         Hit And Run Away Love

Jackie Carbone bb The Hill Sisters


Let Me Go Daddy-O                      The Lovely Lady In Blue


         Napoli                                      The Voice Of Love

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The Tune Tones (1)

Posted on April 17 2021 by dion1

The Tune Tones (1)

The Tune Tones (1) (Brooklyn, NY)

Personnel :

Gilbert Kaplan

Allen Levy

Discography :

1959 - Please Baby Please / Little Sandy (Herald 524)
1959 - She's Right For Me / Lonesome Soul (Herald 539)

Biography :

The Tune Tones, who recorded for Herald Records in the late 1950s, were formed in Brooklyn by two friends, Allen Levy and Gilbert Kaplan. Kaplan heard Levy playing the piano in the gym at Tilden High School, and told him that he knew somebody in the music business. The two wrote some songs and then went to Manhattan and auditioned for Jim Gribble, who owned a recording studio and was a budding manager. Gribble later went on to manage The Passions and The Mystics, and his recording studio and offices became a hangout for such later notables as Paul Simon and Al Kooper. The Tune Tones were his first group. Gribble liked what he heard, christened them The Tune Tones, and took them to Al Silver, of Herald Records, a few floors up in the same building.

The Tune Tones (1)

Silver signed them and released two 45s by The Tune Tones: “Little Sandy” b/w “Please Baby Please,,” (H-524, 1958) and “She’s Right for Me” b/w “Lonesome Soul” (H 539, 1959). Neither were hits, although “Please Baby Please” received solid airplay (it was the b-side) and has become something of a completist fan favorite.After the release of “She’s Right for Me”, Kaplan decided to break up the group and try for a solo career. He ended up a veterinarian in Long Island and died several years ago. Levy went to become a rock critic (writing for Changes), Assistant Editor of music industry trade paper Record World, and then held public relations posts at United Artists, A&M and ASCAP. He later became Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California, a post he held for 25 years. He is now a member of Southern California doo-wop group The Expectations.

Songs :


Please Baby Please                              Little Sandy


She's Right For Me                                     Lonesome Soul

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The Cordials (4)

Posted on April 10 2021 by dion1

The Cordials (4)

The Cordials (4) (Newark. N.J)

Personnel :

Mike Bonczek (Lead)

Raymond LaBranche (Tenor)

Ray Andrejcik Sr (Baritone)

Manny Cruz (Bass)

Discography :

1962 - My Hearts Desire / Listen My Heart (Whip 276)

Biography :

Vocal group from Bloomfield Ave. in Newark. composed by Mike Bonczek (Lead), Raymond LaBranche (Tenor), Ray Andrejcik Sr (Baritone) and Manny Cruz (Bass). The group will record two tracks "My Hearts Desire" and "Listen My Heart" which will be released by Whip records in 1962.

The Cordials (4)

Songs :

My Hearts Desire Listen My Heart

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The Arc-Angels

Posted on April 10 2021 by dion1

James W. Kisling

The Arc-Angels (Pasadena, CA.)

Personnel :

James W. Kisling (Lead)

Robert G. Whiteside

Tony Smith

Bill Hutton (Piano)

Discography :

1961 - Goddess / Little Wheel (Lan-Cet 142)

Biography :

When Bill Aken (Zane Ashton) was a teenager in the San Joaquin Valley, most of his peers were listening to Patti Page, Johnny Ray, etc, etc. I was being influenced by an entirely different kind of music... 1950's Groups like The Crows, The Ravens, and The Dominoes. Lots of his schoolyard friends in the San Joaquin Valley couldn't understand him, saying, "You're white... how can you like that kind of music ???" . His family moved to East Los Angeles in 1952, Bill found others who were into R & B like him and they formed their own band, The Nomads (Los Nomadas) to do their own kind of music. In 1958, even tho they was recording 'pop' music, Rochelle and The Candles came along and re-kindled his desire to do real 'R & B.'

The Arc-Angels
Bill Aken (Zane Ashton)

In 1961 his own record label and production company division was in it's infancy and a vocal group called 'The Arc-Angels' would be his first independent 'R & B' production.... The group was composed by James W. Kisling (Lead), Robert G. Whiteside , Tony Smith and Bill Hutton (Piano). The Arc Angels showed up with a song named "Goddess" written by Kisling. Kisling and Whiteside wrote "Little Wells" on a Saturday before their first recording session because they needed an original song for the B side. "Little Wheel" was done in two takes and "Goddess" was done in five.

Songs :

Goddess Little Wheel

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The Shades (4) & The Knott Sisters

Posted on April 2 2021 by dion1

The Shades (4) & The Knott Siste

The Shades (4) (New York)
& The Knott Sisters

Personnel :

Mort Shuman

Willi Burke

Linda Laurie

Susan Yellin

Discography :

1958 - Sun Glasses / Undivided Attention ((Big Top 3003)

Biography :

The Shades was a fictitious label credit masking the lead singing of co-writer Mort Shuman with Willi Burke (aka Mrs Doc Pomus) and a couple of friends who may or may not have been Linda Laurie and Susan Yellin. "Sun Glasses’ was one of the earliest releases on New York's Big Top label, owned by publishers Hill & Range, for whom Pomus and Shuman were signed as staff writers. The flipside, written by Linda Laurie and Susan Yellin from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY. was credited solely to the Knott Sisters, who were called that because they were not sisters.

The Shades (4) & The Knott Siste

They did get their picture on the sheet music of ‘Sun Glasses’, though, posing with two male models as the Shades. Another attempt to ride the coattails of the smash pop hit ‘Short Shorts’, this one did not do a lot of business, but in 1958 Pomus and Shuman had a long and successful career ahead of them. The next release on Big Top would be "White Bucks And Saddle Shoes’ by Bobby Pedrick Jr, also penned by the duo. Linda Laurie recorded solo sides from 1958-64 for a number of labels.

Songs :

The Shades (4) & The Knott Sisters             The Knott Sisters


Sun Glasses              Undivided Attention

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