Gene & Billy

The Chanters (1)  (Santa Monica, CA)
ref Gene & Billy aka The Cats


Personnel :

Ethel Brown

Gene Ford

Billy Boyd

Alan Boyd

Discography :

The Chanters (1)
Singles :
1954 - She Wants To Mambo / Tell Me, Thrill Me (RPM 415)
1955 - Watts / Why (Combo 78)
1955 - I love You / Hot Mama (Combo 92)
Unreleased :
1955 - Do you Remember (Combo)

The Cats
1955 - Get Gone / You're So Nice (Federal 12238)
1955 - I Don't Care No More / After I Gave You My Heart (Federal 12438)

Gene & Billy
1955 - Zerlene / It's Hot / (Spark 120)
1955 - Zerlene / The Whip (Billy & Billygoats) (Loma 702)

Biography :

The Chanters were a Santa Monica vocal group and not to be confused with the Queens, NY group. This group consisted of Ethel Brown from the squires (on Combo)  Gene Ford, Alan Boyd, and Billy Boyd. On RPM, they had just this one record. They also had two releases on Combo Records in 1955. Gene Ford had sung with Jim Forrest & The Four Feathers.

When the group broke up, Gene & Billy cut "Zerlene " "It's Hot" in 1955 on the short lived Spark label. Spark Records was the brainchild of the clever Jerry Leiber and the gutsy Mike Stoller. The Same year, Gene & Billy cut two Singles for Federal, King Record's subsidiary, under the name of the Cats.

Songs :

The Chanters (1)

  
She Wants To Mambo                           Tell Me, Thrill Me

  
I love You                                       Hot Mama

  
Watts                                                   Why


Do you Remember

The Cats

   
I Don't Care No More                                 Get Gone      

   
After I Gave You My Heart        You're So Nice

Gene & Billy

  
Zerlene                                      It's Hot

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