1955 - Hipetty Ha / Until you'r mine (Herald 455) 1956 - Guess Who / How am i to know (Ember 1004) 1956 - Please Don't Leave / Do You Wanna Go (Hull 718) 1957 - Sugar Candy / My Own (Onyx 507) 1957 - Let's Start Anew / The Flip Skip (Acme 111) 1957 - You Made Me A Promise / Crazy Billboard Song (Acme 717) 1958 - Let's Start Anew / The Flip Skip (Acme 721) 1960 - Oh Lover / Remember that (Miller 1140) 1960 - Pony Dance / Give me some old-Fashioned love (Miller 1141) 1961 - You got to reap what you sow / Pop your finger (Glodis 1003) 1962 - I miss you so / Dance little sister (Rayna 5001) 1962 - Walk on / Oh Why (Rayna 5004) 1960 - Just Wait And See / Black Pepper (Instrumental) (Hull 736) 1962 - Roll Back The Rug (And Twist) / Don't You Forget (Hull 750) 1962 - Cried All Night / Hully Gully Reel (Hull 752) 1962 - Dance Close / Tell him (Riverside 4535) 1963 - Baby your Baby / Silly girl (Rolette 4491) 1964 - Cooncha / Fell good (Stardust 3001) 1965 - Looking over my life / Si Senor (Yorktown 75) 1965 - Your Love / Please Don't Say Goodbye Dear (GMC 10003) 1965 - I'm telling it like it is / Until you comme home, I'll walk alone (GMC 10006)
Biography :
The sisters had a starring role in the first R&B motion Picture, Fritz Pollard's "Rockin' the Blues", in 1955.
The Millers were the daughters of Long Island A&R man, songwriter, & arranger William Milller (Hull, Onyx, Acme, Miller High Fi, Concha, Ember, Tri-Boro, Q, Rayna, Yorktown labels, etc.), & he taught his daughters well.
Here they are featured doing two uptempo dance numbers: "Do You Wanna Go" (a re-titling of their own "Roll Back the Rug") & "Everybody's Havin' a Ball", both of which are far from their best material, & lip-synched here, but it's great just to see them in their only video appearance.
1952 - A Beggar For Your Kisses / Call, Baby, Call (Atlantic 981) 1953 - I'll Live Again / Two Loves Have I (Atlantic 1003) 1954 - Romance In The Dark / Cherry (Atlantic 1017)
Biography :
Long before the "Little Darlin'" Diamonds of Canada emerged on the music scene there was a New York City R & B group that had one of the most beautiful harmonystyles around. The group began as a trio from Harlem labeling themselves theThree Aces in 1948. Harold (Sonny) Wright on lead, first tenor Myles Hardy, andbass, Daniel Stevens. They became the Four Aces in 1951 when Ernest Ford joined, since Eight Aces already existed and a white quartet of Aces were emerging these Aces changedsuits to the Four Diamonds and later to just The Diamonds. In 1952 Sonny went solo at the Apollo amateur night contest and won.
After several more wins owner Bobby Schiffman offered him a week on the bill. Sonny told him about the group and Schiffman ran them thru an audition. He was so impressed he gave them a weeks worth of work and took them on for management. Their first recordings were on October 29, 1952 & "A Beggar for Your Kisses" became there first single in December. "A Beggar" even though it had exquisite harmony went begging for air play. (The imperfection of early `50s recording techniques or just a rush to get the job done allowed the listener to pick up two of the Diamonds talking at the end of "Beggar" before the machine was turned off, and the record was pressed that way.) Their next single, "Two Loves Have I" was a gorgeous ballad derived from a French melody, with Sonny singing his heart out and Myles's constant falsetto nearly establishing a trademark sound for the group.
Seems like no one at Atlantic was paying attention what with the Clovers having great success with "Middle of the Night". Their last single was "Romance In the Dark" b/w "Cherry" the latter an outstanding side that deserved a better fate. They broke up in 1955 but not before they wowed audiences in Philadelphia's Town hall on June 17, 1955 along side Dean Barlow, The Crickets, Ruth Brown The Dreams, Bo Diddley, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
The Dusters (1) (Ohio] aka The Duster’s aka The Belvaderes
Personnel :
Tommy Tucker (Tenor)
Clarence LeVille (Lead)
James Crosby (Tenor)
Yonnie Peoples
Dave Johnson (Lead)
Discography :
The Belvaderes 1955 - Don't Leave Me Here To Cry / I Love You (Baby) (Hudson 4)
The Duster’s 1955 - Don't Leave Me Here To Cry / I Love You (Baby) (Hudson 4)
The Dusters (1) Singles : 1956 - Give Me Time / Sallie Mae (Arc 3000) 1958 - Darling Love / Teen Age Jamboree (Glory 287) Unreleased: 1956 - Castles In Ihe Sky(Ivory Tower) (Arc)
Biography :
Tommy Tucker was not the real name of Robert Higginbotham, who had himself devised this pseudonym. March 5, 1933 Born in Springfield, Ohio, he learned to play the piano by beobachtete- later he took a local hairdresser playing with his son lessons. He refined his technique at performances in Central Ohio with the Orchestra of the saxophonist Bobby Wood in the early 50's and then founded with trumpeter Clarence LaVell a band that received a firm commitment at a club in Dayton. By 1955, the demand for vocal group music was at its zenith. The Bobby Wood Orchestra was forced to adapt to enable them to find good paying gigs and, more importantly, to strengthen survival against stiff competition. The orchestra split apart and became a doo-wop quartet overnight. Tucker and childhood pal James Crosby sang tenor leads with Dave Johnson (tenor) and Clarence Lavell (bass). Yonnie Peoples joined later when the group recorded. For live engagements, the quartet billed themselves as the Cavaliers.
Some time during the spring of 1955, having signed a deal with ARC Records, the Cavaliers entered Syd Nathan's King label Cincinnati studios, ready and eager to record three songs: "Give Me Time," "Sallie Mae" and a tune remembered variously as "Castles In The Sky" or "Ivory Tower".For some reason, perhaps because the Cavaliers did not want to get themselves confused with the Cavaliers on Decca or Atlas labels, the group opted to change their name to the Dusters. The Cavaliers/Dusters waited well over a year before the ARC release. Some eight months prior, the group, perhaps out of impatience, opted to try and find a record company willing to get product onto the market fast. Touring brought the group to East St. Louis where they hitched up with The Ike Turner Band. During their sojourn in the city they met up with a guy named Hudson, owner and proprietor of Hudson Records. After the audition, Hudson took the group to the King Studios in Cincinnati where they had cut previously for ARC. The group, now billed as the Belvaderes, with Crosby and Lavell sharing leads and Tucker shifting more to piano accompaniment and writing arrangements, cut two songs, "Don't Leave Me To Cry" and "I Love You (Baby)." In 1958 James Crosby wrote the splendid "Darling Love" recorded by the Dusters and released The Same year by Glory Records.
The Eldaros from Syracuse comprised of Bobby Green, Jimmy Singleton, Levy Hall, Kenny Tucker, James Crawford and guitarist Duke Kearse. By 1957, this group had made a demo recording ("Baby Child") at Dufford Studio located in downtown Syracuse on South Warren Street, While at Dufford's recording an album that was never released they met song writer Jacquelin Nesbit, who wrote a song called "Rock A Bock", that became the Eldaros first record for the Vesta Record Label in February 1958. Little did they realize but over twenty years later the flip side "Please Surrender" written by Green would become one of the most sought after group records by many of the countries top rhythm and blues collectors. With that release, the Eldaros received much publicity though both the Syracuse Newspapers as well as air play by WNDR's Mr, Rhythm and Bill Worth (later known as Billy Williams) who was now the singing groups manager.
Worth though his many national connections tried to obtained a recording contract for them with Aladdin Records a blues label out of Los Angeles. Aladdin was the home of many stars as Shirley & Lee, Thurston Harris and the Five Keys. After the Aladdin contract arrived Worth needed capital ($) to finalize the deal. Bobby Green said "That Worth was paid by the group and disappeared." The contract was never signed and is still to this day in the property of Green. The Eldaros disbanded in 1958, but Bobby Green and Jimmy Singleton stayed together to record "Each Passing Day", another classic, this time written by the songwriting team of Wilma Lung and Viola Flansburg (who later wrote the hit song- "Teeter Totter Love" for The Marcels in 1963) the sonng was released on both Utica's Mark Records and Albany's Stentor Records in 1960. http://ronwray.blogspot.fr/2011_12_01_archive.html
1956 - Please say you want me / Shirley（Okeh 7076） 1957 - I am old enough / Mary（Okeh 7085） 1957 - Carol / Pearl（Okeh 7085） 1958 - The slide / Angel of love（Juanita 103） 1990 - Ding a ling coo coo mop (1957)（Magic Carpet EP 511)
Biography :
The Schoolboys sound almost uncannily similar to Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, but they predate them by close to a year in terms of recording and success. Formed in Harlem's Cooper Junior High School in 1954 or early 1955, with Harold Atley as leader, James Edwards (first tenor), Roger Hayes (second tenor), James "Charlie" McKay (baritone), and Renaldo Gamble (bass), they performed in school talent shows and became popular locally, only to see Atley exit after a few months.
He was replaced by Leslie Martin, a boy soprano who had an almost operatic intensity to his singing and intonation. They appeared on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour and won first prize, which brought them the chance to record soon after, under the aegis of disc jockey Tommy Smalls, who had the popular Dr. Jive Show on WWRL in New York -- he gave them the name the Schoolboys and got them their recording.
Their debut single, "Please Say You Want Me," a slow, moon/June-rhymed ballad featuring Martin's astonishingly powerful boy soprano voice, became a hit in the fall of 1955 and led to a series of releases, notable for the pleading nature of their lyrics, especially the ballads, which were usually backed by songs titled with girls' names.
The group was never able to match the success of its debut release, however, and by 1956, the Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon, also organized in upper Manhattan, had supplanted them in the minds of the listening public.
The Schoolboys' original lineup disintegrated not too long after their one hit -- Renaldo Gamble joined Pearl McKinnon (herself a Frankie Lymon sound-alike) and the Kodaks. By 1957, the Schoolboys were history, their moment having passed to Lymon and company. It is alleged that some of the work credited to the group was really Martin and members of the Cadillacs, rather than his own group. Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
The Newport (3) (Queens, New York) aka The Exzels aka The Essentials (2)
Personnel :
Dennis Grey (Lead)
Jimmy Pace
Artie Ross
Ronnie Pomerantz
Stan Novack
Discography:
The Essentials (2) Unreleased : 1959 - Teenage Sweetheart 1959 - Me And My Gal
The Newports (3) Singles : 1962 - If I Could Tonight / A Fellow Needs A Girl (Kane 007/ Guyden 2067)
 1964 - Tears / Disillusioned Love (Guyden 2116) Unreleased : 1961 - Go To Sleep My Little Girl 1963 - Love Me With All Your Heart 1963 - Hands 1963 - Faith 1963 - I'll Never Stop Loving You
The Exzels Single : 1962 - Canadian Sunset / Hit Talk (other group) (Cross Fire 101)
Biography :
Like so many other groups, The Newports, from Queen New York, were fortunate to have a few record releases. The Original group started back in 1958-59 and was know as the Essentials. From this group Ray Russel would eventually join both Shelly Buchansky and Frankie Fox, both Essentials/Newports for a Short While, and become members of Vito & The Salutations after the groups release "Gloria". Jimmy Pace having the opportunity to leave as well, chose to stay with the Newports and try for that elusive hit record, Along with jimmy is Artie Ross, who grew up in Manhattan.
There he sang in neighborhood with Tony Orlando's 5 Gents, Dennis & the Explorers and Nickie North & the Citations. They added Stan Novack Ronnie Pomerantz and Lead Dennis Grey. The Group recorded some tunes for Dave McRae ,Kane records' owner.
"If I Could Tonight" and "A Fellow Needs A Girl" was released on Kane 007. The songs were re-released on Guyden 2067 but went nowhere. In 1962, Bobby King, a record store owner who had the Cross Fire label release "Canadian Sunset" under the name of The Exzels.
In 1962, there were some more personnel changes with Joe Reinlieb on Lead and Mike Perricone. The Newports and his new singers were brought into the studio to do some recording. "Tears" & "Disillusioned" Love were released in 1964 on Guyden 2116.
Songs :
The Essentials (2)
Teenage Sweetheart
The Newports (3)
If I Could Tonight A Fellow Needs A Girl Disillusioned Love
Tears Love Me With All Your Heart Faith
Hands I'll Never Stop Loving You Go To Sleep My Little Girl
The Echoes (5) 1962 - Time / Dee Dee Di Oh (Andex 22102)
The Innocents 1960 - Tick Tock / The Rat (instrumental) (Trans World 7001) 1960 - Honest I Do / My Baby Hully Gullys (Indigo 105) 1960 - Gee Whiz / Please Mr. Sun (Indigo 111) 1961 - Kathy / In the Beginning (Indigo 116) 1961 - Beware / Because I Love You So (Indigo 124) 1961 - Donna / You Got Me Goin' (Indigo 128) 1961 - Pains in My Heart / When I Become a Man (Indigo 132) 1962 - Time / Dee Dee Di Oh (Indigo 141) 1962 - Oh How I Miss My Baby / Be Mine (Reprise 20112) 1963 - Oh How I Miss My Baby / You're Never Satisfied (Reprise 201125) 1963 - Come On Lover / Don't Cry (Decca 31519)
EP: 1961 - Honest I Do / I Believe in You / Chiquita / Gee Whiz (Indigo EP 1000)
Album : 1961 - Honest I Do / Chiquita / Walking Along / Once In A While / Please Mr. Sun / Girl Of My Dreams / Gee Whiz / Hog For You / It Was A Tear / Donna / My Baby Hully Gullys / I Believe In You (LP Indigo 503)
Unreleased : N/A - Little Blue Star (Indigo) (Unreleased) N/A - Sleeping Beauty (Indigo) (Unreleased) N/A - Time Makes You Change (Indigo) (Unreleased) N/A - Two Young Hearts (Indigo) (Unreleased) N/A - I Know A Valley (Indigo) (Unreleased)
Biography :
The Innocents -- James West (lead), Al Candelaria (bass), and Darron Stankey (tenor/guitarist) -- were a smooth harmonizing West Coast pop group from San Fernando Valley CA, whose most successful record was accompanying Kathy Young as Kathy Young & the Innocents on "A Thousand Smiles" (1960 Indigo Records, number three pop/number six R&B).
Kathy Young was the ripe old age of 15 at the time. The trio were friends and members of a local car club name "The Innocents." The artists met at Wink Martindale's local television dance show, where the Innocents were lip-syncing their current single; Indigo producer Jim Lee suggested they record together after talking to Young and her mom at the taping.
The Revileers, a black New York doo wop group, recorded the original "A Thousand Eyes" six years earlier. That connection caused many to mislabel the Innocents as a doo wop group; nothing could be further from the truth.
Solo, the Innocents cut their first single in 1959 as the Echos (West and Stankey) on Andrex Records;
West was brought along to sing he high harmony parts. With the addition of West, the Echos became the Innocents (after the car club) after first rejecting "the Hubcaps". They then inked a deal with Indigo for their first hit "Honest I Do" (number 28 pop) in 1960. That same year, Trans World Records dumped a previously cut track by them, "Tick Tock," on the streets.
Indigo answered with their smash hit with Kathy Young. They rose up the charts again in 1961 with "Gee Whiz" (number 28 pop/ number 11 R&B), and had an LP release Innocently Yours in 1961; its cover, depicting them peering through prison bars, was voted one the 1000 best album covers of all time.
Indigo followed with "Kathy" after Kathy Young but it floundered, and seven singles later they hit an impenetrable wall. The non-sellers include two Reprise singles, a Decca 45, and one Warner Brothers' single. While three other singles charted, they trolled the bottom rungs of the charts.
With Kathy Young they scored two more modest hits: "Happy Birthday Blues" and "Magic Is the Night" (both released in 1961) but six subsequent singles stiffed.
Not only did the Innocents back Kathy Young, they reportedly performed on half the recordings Indigo released. They disbanded in 1964 but their short run was exciting and fulfilling. They appeared on all the top teen shows, and shared stages with hot pop acts like Jan & Dean, Chubby Checker, and others.
Starfire Records released Our Best to You in 1981; the album features the Innocents on one side and Kathy Young on the other. That same year James West had a solo album on Atlantic Records, which preceded their reuniting in 1984 to cut four spanking new tracks; but the timing was bad and they went nowhere. West continued in the music, doing everything from surf music to harmonies to ock & roll on many sessions.
Al Candelaria worked as a session guitarist. All the members are all alive and doing well and like many acts from the '60s, they re-grouped in the '90s for oldie shows, appearing at venues with Kathy Young, the Penguins, Rosie & the Originals, and many others. Ace released the Innocents Complete Indigo Recordings in 1992
Rickey & Jennell were the male-female duo of Richard Berry and his friend Jennell Hawkins, who put out one single on Flair in 1954, "Each Step"/"This Time It's Real." Both sides were routine doo wop duets - "Each Step" a ballad, "This Time It's Real" in the more uptempo R&B vein - and have been reissued on the Richard Berry compilation Yama Yama! The Modern Recordings 1954-1956.
Berry, of course, was just at the start of a career that would find him issuing many R&B and rock & roll records as a solo artist, most famously on the original version of "Louie, Louie" in 1957. Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
The Three Chuckles aka the Chuckles (2) (Brooklyn, NewYork)
Personnel :
Tommy Romano (Vocal,Guitar)
Tommy "Russ" Gilberto (Vocal,Bass)
Teddy Randazzo (Vocal, Accordion)
Discography : The Three Chuckles 1953 - Runaround / At Last You Understand (Boulevard 100 /"X"0066/Jubilee 5490) 1955 - Foolishly / If You Should Love Again ("X"0095) 1955 - So Long / You Should Have Told Me ("X"0134) 1955 - Blue Lover / Realize ("X"0150) 1955 - Still Thinking Of You / Times Two, I Love You ("X"0162) 1955 - The Funny Little Things We Used To Do / Anyway ("X"0186/Vik 0186) 1956 - Tell Me / And The Angels Sing ("X"0194/Vik 0194) 1956 - Gypsy In My Soul / We're Still Holding Hands ("X"0216/Vik 0216) 1956 - Midnight Till Dawn / Fall Out Of Love (Vik 0232) 1956 - We're Gonna Rock Tonight / Won't You Give Me A Chance (Vik 0244) 1956 - To Each His Own (LP Vik LX-1067) 1956 - Solitude (LP Vik LX-1067) 1956 - In The Still Of The Night (LP Vik LX-1067) 1956 - It's Been A Long, Long Time (LP Vik LX-1067) 1956 - How Deep Is The Ocean (LP Vik LX-1067) 1956 - Red Sails In The Sunset (LP Vik LX-1067) 1956 - Maybe You'll Be There (LP Vik LX-1067) 1956 - (LP Vik LX-1067) 1956 - Where Or when (LP Vik LX-1067) 1956 - These Foolish Things (LP Vik LX-1067) 1956 - Marta (LP Vik LX-1067) 1956 - I Only Have Eyes For You (LP Vik LX-1067) The Chuckles (2) 1961 - Runaround / Lonely traveler (ABC 10276)
Biography :
The Three Chuckles sounds like an improbable name for a rock 'n' roll act, and to hear their sound and see them in action in one of the handful of movies in which they appeared -- Rock, Rock, Rock (which was shot in the Bronx, New York) --
they seem an equally unlikely group to be designated a rock 'n' roll act at all. They were more of a harmony pop trio who happened to be young enough to "pass" for a rock 'n' roll act at a time when that designation was a little less well defined than it finally became. Tommy Romano (vocals, guitar) and Tommy Gilberto, aka Russ Gilberto (vocals, bass) hailed from Red Hook, Brooklyn in New York City, and linked up with accordionist Phil Bentl to form the Three Chuckles, the name derived from a popular candy bar of the early 1950's. This all pre-dated rock 'n' roll, and the group established themselves in clubs, lounges, and bowling alleys up and down the East Coast well before the new music was heard by a mass white audience.
They were contemporaries of the Four Lovers and other Italian pop-vocal ensembles of the period, and were obviously good, because they were so busy that it cost them their keyboard man, Bentl deciding he didn't want to spend so much time on the road. The group found a successor in then 15-year-old Teddy Randazzo, more than a decade younger than Romano and Gilberto but already a fine player on the accordion. It was this version of the group that, following a gig in New Jersey, were handed a song called "Run Around" by its author, a truck driver named Cinino Colacrais.
A couple of years later, when they got their first opportunity to make a record, they remembered the song, and it was cut as the B-side of "At Last You Understand". Issued on Boulevard -- the newly-christened pop imprint of the r&b-oriented Great Lakes label -- the record was good enough to be bought out (along with the trio contract) by RCA Victor; it then got flipped over and the B-side slightly revised as "Runaround", and made it to the number 20 spot on the national charts.
The Three Chuckles were suddenly an act with a following far beyond the East Coast, and Randazzo, who'd sung lead on the hit, had emerged as the group's featured vocalist at the age of 17. He would soon emerge as a songwriter as well, initially in collaboration with Colacrais on their second single A-side, "Foolishly", which didn't hit. Their single "Times Two, I Love You" became a minor chart entry, and after that they were moved over to the label's Vik imprint, which had started out as an r&b-oriented label in the early 1950's. And it was there that they topped the charts with "And The Angels Sing", a pop vocal piece with a beat and some emphatic electric guitar, which led to their recording an entire self-titled LP.
By this time, their sound was rock 'n' roll of a sophisticated sort, nicely harmonized and elegant but with Randazzo's lead singing and their choice of repertory achieving a kind of white soulfulness that qualified -- or if it didn't, it was a short jump to doing so, and kids did eat up their records; their original LP reportedly sold 400,000 copies, a figure that one could easily doubt (although if the figure was even an sixth of that, it would be a remarkable achievement for a rock 'n' roll act of the period). In any case, they were good enough to attract the attention of deejay/impresario Alan Freed, who put them into Rock, Rock, Rock in 1956 --
Freed made a point, however, to also give Randazzo a featured spot on his own in the movie. That move, which immortalized the group on film, also spelled their end. Soon after the release of the movie, Randazzo decided that it was time for him to leave the fold for a career on his own. He went on to fulfill all of the promise that those early sides showed, working for a time as a singer and then turning to songwriting and producing and enjoying decades of success. The Three Chuckles soldiered on for a time with Jackie Farrell as the third member, but it was soon apparent that their moment and time had passed.
They never recorded after Randazzo left, and had broken up by 1958, though Tommy Romano remained in the business into the 1970's, and eventually formed a duo with Karen Gayle, working as A Chuckle And A Chicklet. Their sound today seems like a lost trail in the history of rock 'n' roll, most of it not quite hot enough to fit in, but just passionate and soulful enough to qualify. In 1997, Collectables Records issued Golden Classics, an 18-song collection that showed off the group's range to great advantage.
Teddy Randazzo
Those late sides, including "And The Angels Sing", "Gypsy In My Soul" and "We're Gonna Rock Tonight" -- the latter as suggestive a piece as any white group ever did, rivaling "Rock Around The Clock" (its obvious model) and Chuck Berry's "Reelin' And Rockin'" -- show their harder sound and are worth the price of admission.
Bruce Eder, All Music Guide http://www.spectropop.com/remembers/TRobit.htm
The Joytones (New York) aka The Hi-Lites (10) aka The Joy-Tones
Personnel :
Lucille "Vicki" Burgess (Lead)
Estelle Harper
Margaret Moore
Discography :
The Joytones 1956 - You Just Won't Treat Me Right / All My Love Belongs To You (Rama 191)
 1956 - Gee What A Boy / Is This Really The End (Rama 202) 
 1956 - My Foolish Heart / Jimbo Jango (Rama 215)
The Joy-Tones 1965 - This Love (That I'm Giving You) / I Wanna Party Some More (Coed 600)
The Hi-Lites (10) 1958 - Please Believe I Love You / Sweet And Lovely (Reno 1030)
Biography :
In 1955, after some singles with the Charmers, Vikki Burgess joins with Myrna Hamilton and Renee Stewart and form a group called The Solirettes and are signed to top New York independent label Old Town Records. All of the efforts by the group remain unreleased and The Solirettes become a dim memory of the time. Burgess now forms another group with Margaret Moore and Estelle Harper and call themselves The Joytones. They are soon signed to record for George Goldner's Rama Records, and in March of 1956 "All My Love Belongs To You" (originally by The Hearts on Baton) and "You Just Won't Treat Me Right" on Rama #191 is released.
During that summer Barbara Brown replaces Estelle Harper, and The Joytones second record for Rama is released. The songs "Gee What A Boy" and "Is This Really The End?" are released on Rama#202. The record is pushed nationally by Rama hoping for "Boy" to click with the teenage listening public, but that does not happen. There is another personnel change within the group when Lynn Middleton replaces Barbara Brown before the group's third release for Rama.
In spring of 1957 Rama #215 features "My Foolish Heart" and "Jimbo Jango" which turns out to be the last record by The Joytones. Like the others it does not garner great airplay or sales.By 1958 Vikki Burgess, Lynn Middleton, and Margaret Moore determine that maybe a name change is in order and so The Joytones now become The Hi-Lites and have one record release for the small indie label Reno Records in 1958.
The songs are "Sweet And Lovely" and "Please Believe I Love You" on #1030. In short order The Hi-Lites were also part of the great memory bank of the 1950s.The Joytones would reappear on record in 1965 in the middle of Motown and the British Invasion with "This Love" and "I Wanna Party Some More" recorded for Coed Records and released on #600.
A few years later a group called Love Potion comprised of (surprise !) Vikki Burgess, Margaret Moore, and Lynn Middleton, release "This Love", the same take as by The Joytones in 1965. The song is released on TCB #1601 in 1968. One year later the same song is released as by Love Potion on Kapp #979.
Songs :
The Joytones
You Just Won't Treat Me Right All My Love Belongs To You Gee What A Boy
Is This Really The End My Foolish Heart Jimbo Jango
The Joy-Tones
I Wanna Party Some More This Love (That I'm Giving You)
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