Fantastic Oldies Game!

[Mayberry]

Thats wild! Today I just remastered a CD with THE NEWBEATS 4 big ones: Bread & Butter, break Away Run Baby Run and Everything's Allright. Found a stereo copy of three of them. They were on Hickory out of Nashville. Don't know where they are actually from.

 

[AlexBrowne]

[The Newbeats were a trio: Larry Henley was from Texas; brothers Dean and Marc Mathis were from Georgia.]

For some odd reason, I have always associated, in my mind, the Newbeats with The Nashville Teens (who were actually from England); could be the fact that "Bread And Butter" by the former and "Tobacco Road" by the latter were on the charts at the very same time, fall 1964.

 

[Mayberry]

ENGLAND Swings, Like A Pendulum Do, so said Roger Miller back about 64 also.

 

[Those RRRRs]

England Dan and John Ford Coley were known for "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight," but Dee Dee Sharp from "Mashed Potato Time" fame also recorded that song.

 

[Don62]

England Dan and John Ford Coley were known for "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight," but Dee Dee Sharp from "Mashed Potato Time" fame also recorded that song.

Surprised Ben E. King hasn't been mentioned.
After all, didn't he ask everyone to "Don't Play That Song."

 

[AlexBrowne]

"Don't Play That Song" was later recorded, in 1970, by Aretha Franklin With The Dixie Flyers; its B-side was another remake, "Let It Be," a #1 hit earlier that year by some mop-top quartet from Liverpool.

 

[Those RRRRs]

The Dixie Flyers? Seems to me that there was a group called The Dixie Cups who had a couple of hit records in 1964 called "Chapel Of Love" and "People Say."

 

[AlexBrowne]

Most of us know Elvis Presley's "Crying In The Chapel" from 1965, but the song has a rich history: the single by The Orioles (led by Sonny Til), which is considered the definitive pre-rock R&B recording and became a crossover hit, was actually a cover of country versions by Rex Allen and Darrell Glenn, and even the great Ella Fitzgerald recorded it -- all in 1953!

 

[Those RRRRs]

Some people talk about The Early "FORD."

Flamingos
Orioles
Ravens
Dominoes


The Ravens, led by Jimmy Ricks, in addition to "Green Eyes," had some great uptempo things too, including "We'll Raise A Ruckus Tonight."

Raise a Ruckus all night long,
Sam Taylor blow that saxophone!

 

[Mayberry]

I am reminded of The GREEN Door, no not the movie, the happy tune by Jim Lowe on Dot was back in 1956 it went to # 1.

 

[Those RRRRs]

There were numerous versions of "Theme From The Green Hornet," including a great one by The Ventures!

 

[Those RRRRs]

There were numerous versions of "Theme From The Green Hornet," including a great one by The Ventures!

Hey everyone. I'm getting ready for lunch and just realized that I started this thing 1 month ago today, and we're already up to 40 pages and almost 400 posts! Thanks for participating and making this a lot of fun!

RRRR's

(The fantastic word game on The "Off The Air" board has been there over 6 months and this game is almost halfway caught up to it in posts.)

 

[amfmsw]

Green door, red door, Elvis's version of "Chapel" was a hit in '65, but was recorded on Haloween Day, 10/31/60. It sat in the RCA vaults for 5 years.

 

[Mayberry]

5, 10, 15, 20, - 25 years of luh-uh-ove by The President's, it's been mentioned once I think, but what a good late in the era motown sound.

 

[Those RRRRs]

To continue that lyric...

"...years of love, are we happy..." which brings me to:

"Candy & The Kisses" had a record called "The 81" on Cameo Parkway, and on the flipside was a tune called "Two Happy People."

 

[Mayberry]

PARKWAY, was Chubby Checkers' label, my favorite of his was not big, but I loved it. Lovely Lovely was one of those we played, and enjoyed, and didn't know it would stall out back in 1965.

 

[Those RRRRs]

Chubby Checker's record called "Twist It Up" was not a big record either, but it was my favorite by him!

 

[hammondo]

Mayberry is not a newsman. He said;
PARKWAY, was Chubby Checkers' label.

This sentence, the way it is written, may infer Chubby OWNED Parkway. Well, he did NOT!

In fact, Chubby is party to LOTS of lawsuits against Parkway and Cameo, whose roster boasted such names as Chubby Checker, Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell,T he Orlons, Dee Dee Sharp, The Dovells and Bunny Sigler.

In 1997 the owner of Chubby's former record company, Cameo-Parkway Records (that would be the infamous Allen B. Klein of ABKCO Records, NYC) swore that he was preparing a huge compilation of "Greatest Hits" packages of all the original Cameo-Parkway hits, including Chubby's original hits.

Ten years later, nothing has been forthcoming since he made that comment!

 

[Don62]

There were numerous versions of "Theme From The Green Hornet," including a great one by The Ventures!

Hey everyone. I'm getting ready for lunch and just realized that I started this thing 1 month ago today, and we're already up to 40 pages and almost 400 posts! Thanks for participating and making this a lot of fun!

RRRR's

(The fantastic word game on The "Off The Air" board has been there over 6 months and this game is almost halfway caught up to it in posts.)

There's not much else to talk about on the "50s-60s oldies board" since most broadcatsers aren't interested in playing this great kind of music.

 

[AlexBrowne]

Harry Chapin had a similar expression of frustration -- "there was not much more for us to talk about" -- in his first hit, Taxi, in 1972, about two old friends whose lives have gone in different directions: she's a successful actress, and he's a taxi driver who gets stoned each night to cope with his disappointments.