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Fantastic Oldies Game!

Time for a pee break from this game, with a question. I remember the Fingertips LP boasting "Little Stevie Wonder-The 12 year old Genius". Am I correct?

Also, does anyone know where the live performance was recorded? The story told to me was that it was recorded at a performance at the Morton Hotel, Virginia Avenue & the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. Also, I was told the announcer introducing Mr. Wonder was WMID's "Humble Harvey Miller". (That Morton Hotel was razed and is now a parking lot for Resorts Casino/Hotel, as was the adjoining Lafayette Motor Inn lot where The Beatles stayed for their concerts at AC Convention Hall) Their concert was followed by the Democratic National Convention where they nominated LBJ to run for President! A busy week in AC.

Anyway, the Morton and the Club Harlem were the venues for many artists of color, as the Steel Pier Marine Ballroom was pretty much caucasionized in 1962-3. Q: was this recorded in AC, or was AC just a tour stop?
 
amfmsw said:
Time for a pee break from this game, with a question. I remember the Fingertips LP boasting "Little Stevie Wonder-The 12 year old Genius". Am I correct?

Also, does anyone know where the live performance was recorded? The story told to me was that it was recorded at a performance at the Morton Hotel, Virginia Avenue & the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. Also, I was told the announcer introducing Mr. Wonder was WMID's "Humble Harvey Miller". (That Morton Hotel was razed and is now a parking lot for Resorts Casino/Hotel, as was the adjoining Lafayette Motor Inn lot where The Beatles stayed for their concerts at AC Convention Hall) Their concert was followed by the Democratic National Convention where they nominated LBJ to run for President! A busy week in AC.

Anyway, the Morton and the Club Harlem were the venues for many artists of color, as the Steel Pier Marine Ballroom was pretty much caucasionized in 1962-3. Q: was this recorded in AC, or was AC just a tour stop?
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The live version of the song was recorded during a Motor Town Revue performance at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois, and was released in May 1963 as a two-part single, with Part 2 (with the encore) as the a-side. "Fingertips" was Motown's second number-one pop hit (following The Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman"), and launched the 13-year-old Wonder into the pop music stratosphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingertips_(song)

Little SW was born May 13, 1950, so was probably 12 years old at the live performance (based upon the calendar) and 13 when the recording was released. Anyone have the release date?
 
GridLeakBias said:
amfmsw said:
Time for a pee break from this game, with a question. I remember the Fingertips LP boasting "Little Stevie Wonder-The 12 year old Genius". Am I correct?

Also, does anyone know where the live performance was recorded? The story told to me was that it was recorded at a performance at the Morton Hotel, Virginia Avenue & the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. Also, I was told the announcer introducing Mr. Wonder was WMID's "Humble Harvey Miller". (That Morton Hotel was razed and is now a parking lot for Resorts Casino/Hotel, as was the adjoining Lafayette Motor Inn lot where The Beatles stayed for their concerts at AC Convention Hall) Their concert was followed by the Democratic National Convention where they nominated LBJ to run for President! A busy week in AC.

Anyway, the Morton and the Club Harlem were the venues for many artists of color, as the Steel Pier Marine Ballroom was pretty much caucasionized in 1962-3. Q: was this recorded in AC, or was AC just a tour stop?
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The live version of the song was recorded during a Motor Town Revue performance at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois, and was released in May 1963 as a two-part single, with Part 2 (with the encore) as the a-side. "Fingertips" was Motown's second number-one pop hit (following The Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman"), and launched the 13-year-old Wonder into the pop music stratosphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingertips_(song)

Little SW was born May 13, 1950, so was probably 12 years old at the live performance (based upon the calendar) and 13 when the recording was released. Anyone have the release date?
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After reading further on the link I supplied, I find that "Fingertips Pt2" was recorded in June 1962 and released on May 21, 1963. Thus, the PR for his album was correct - he was a 12 year old wonder at the time of the recording; but was 13 at the time of the release of the tune, which is in line with the current historical discography.
 
During "Fingertips - Pt 2," Little Stevie Wonder briefly breaks into "Mary Had A Little Lamb" on the harmonica, which is only fitting because the next act waiting in the wings on the Regal Theatre stage was the 19 year old Mary Wells.
 
Mary Wells may have been best known for "My Guy," but her first record was a song entitled "Bye Bye Baby" which she had written for Jackie Wilson to record, but instead Berry Gordy offered her her own record contract after hearing her sing it. "Bye Bye Baby" is not to be confused with the great song by Earl Lewis & The Channels by the same title.
 
Those RRRRs said:
Mary Wells may have been best known for "My Guy," but her first record was a song entitled "Bye Bye Baby" which she had written for Jackie Wilson to record, but instead Berry Gordy offered her her own record contract after hearing her sing it. "Bye Bye Baby" is not to be confused with the great song by Earl Lewis & The Channels by the same title.
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"Duke of Earl" is a 1962 hit song, originally written and performed by Gene Chandler. This is perhaps the best known of Chandler's songs, and so he dubbed himself 'The Duke of Earl'. The word "Duke" is mentioned exactly 132 times during the entire song.
 
Throughout his career, Stevie Wonder has been generous in paying honor to other great artists: witness his 1963 album of Ray Charles' music, Tribute to Uncle Ray, his 1971 hit "Sir Duke" (which not only references "the king of all" Duke Ellington, but also Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald), and his 1980 take on the Bob Marley reggae tune, "Master Blaster (Jammin')."
 
I'll keep this one short and sweet.

The Bee Gees recorded "Massachusetts" b/w "Sir Geoffrey Saved the World" on Atco Records.
 
Those RRRRs said:
I'll keep this one short and sweet.

The Bee Gees recorded "Massachusetts" b/w "Sir Geoffrey Saved the World" on Atco Records.
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Brenda Lee was a child prodigy and by the time she turned ten, she had become the primary breadwinner of her family by singing at events and on local radio and television shows. Signed by Decca Records at age 11 she began recording mostly rockabilly. At Christmas 1958, she released "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," which sold only 5,000 copies during its initial release. However, it would eventually go on to sell over five million copies. Her biggest success during late 50’s to mid 60’s was with R&R styled hits, such as "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)," "Sweet Nothins," "I Want to Be Wanted," "All Alone Am I" and "Fool #1". During the early 1970s, Lee established herself as a country music artist, and earned a string of Top 10 hits.
 
"Jambalaya (On The Bayou)" remains one of Hank Williams' most popular songs, recorded by Williams & His Drifting Cowboys in 1952; it was #1 on the country chart for 14 weeks, although the 1952 cover version by Jo Stafford (the follow-up to her #1 "You Belong To Me") was a bigger pop hit, and has been recorded since by Jerry Lee Lewis, Emmylou Harris, The Carpenters, John Fogerty, Gerry and The Pacemakers, Brenda Lee, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dolly Parton, and many others.
 
"You Belong To Me" was also a hit for Joni James, but in the R&R world the best known version of course was by The Duprees, who also recorded a song called "Take Me As I Am;" however, that song was recorded a few years earlier in 1957 on The Teenage Record label by Eddie Jones & The Demens (Jones was also a member of The Solitaires) b/w a great Rock & Roll side called "You Broke My Heart."
 
AlexBrowne said:
"Jambalaya (On The Bayou)" remains one of Hank Williams' most popular songs, recorded by Williams & His Drifting Cowboys in 1952; it was #1 on the country chart for 14 weeks, although the 1952 cover version by Jo Stafford (the follow-up to her #1 "You Belong To Me") was a bigger pop hit, and has been recorded since by Jerry Lee Lewis, Emmylou Harris, The Carpenters, John Fogerty, Gerry and The Pacemakers, Brenda Lee, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dolly Parton, and many others.
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In the early 1940s, Ivory Joe Hunter had his own radio show in Beaumont, Texas on KFDM, where he eventually became program manager. In the late 1940s, Hunter founded Pacific Records. When he wrote and recorded his first song, "Blues at Sunrise" with the Three Blazers for his own label, Ivory Records, it became a regional hit. By 1954, he had recorded more than a hundred songs and moved to Atlantic Records. His first song to cross over to the pop charts was "Since I Met You Baby" (1956). It was to be his only top-40 pop song, climbing to the number 12 position. Among the thousands of songs Ivory Joe wrote are two that Presley put in the top 20: "My Wish Came True" and "Ain't That Loving You, Baby."
 
Ironically, one of the first #1 singles of the rock era, from 1955, was "The Yellow Rose Of Texas," a Civil War-era song by a man who hated rock and roll, record producer Mitch Miller; he may be best remembered for his musical variety TV series "Sing Along With Mitch," which was a hit on NBC-TV from 1961-66.
 
How about a little "Jenny Jenny Jenny won't you come along with me" from Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, the tune that uses lyrics from the rock and roll classic "See See Rider!"
 
Those RRRRs said:
How about a little "Jenny Jenny Jenny won't you come along with me" from Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, the tune that uses lyrics from the rock and roll classic "See See Rider!"
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The reputation of Richard Penniman (aka “Little Richard) rests on a string of groundbreaking hit singles from 1955 through 1957, such as "Tutti Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally", which helped lay the foundation for rock and roll music, influencing generations of rhythm and blues, rock and soul music artists. Little Richard's early work was a mix of boogie-woogie, rhythm and blues and gospel music, but with a heavily accentuated back-beat, funky saxophone grooves and raspy, shouted vocals, moans, screams, and other emotive inflections that marked a new kind of music. "Jenny Jenny" was released on Specialty Records in June 1957 and went to #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the R&B charts.

The R&R classic you refer to was "C.C. Rider", recorded by Chuck Willis. It topped the rhythm and blues chart in 1957 and also crossed over and sold well in the pop market. Willis died suddenly of peritonitis in 1958 while at the peak of his career (30 years of age), just after the release of his last single, "What Am I Living For?", backed by "Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes".
 
Pat Boone launched his career by covering successful (and superior) recordings by R&B artists; his 1955 and 1956 versions of "Ain't That A Shame" (covering Fats Domino), "At My Front Door" (The El Dorados), "Gee Whittakers!" (The Five Keys), "I'll Be Home" (The Flamingos), "Tutti' Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally" (Little Richard), and "I Almost Lost My Mind" (Ivory Joe Hunter) were widely heard on white radio stations that wouldn't play the black singers' originals.
 
AlexBrowne said:
Pat Boone launched his career by covering successful (and superior) recordings by R&B artists; his 1955 and 1956 versions of "Ain't That A Shame" (covering Fats Domino), "At My Front Door" (The El Dorados), "Gee Whittakers!" (The Five Keys), "I'll Be Home" (The Flamingos), "Tutti' Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally" (Little Richard), and "I Almost Lost My Mind" (Ivory Joe Hunter) were widely heard on white radio stations that wouldn't play the black singers' originals.
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“In The Still Of The Nite” (The Five Satins), the most beloved doo-wop hit of the decade, was recorded in the basement of St. Bernadette’s Church in East New Haven, Connecticut and released in 1956 as Ember 1005 on the b-side of “The Jones Girl”. It went to R&B #3 and #25 on the Pop charts.
 
One of the most beloved R&B groups from the late 1950s and early 1960s was The Coasters, who made us listen and laugh to their offbeat and often humorous songs, written and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, including "Searchin'," "Young Blood," the #1 "Yakety Yak," "Charlie Brown, "Poison Ivy," "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)," and that tale of dastardly Salty Sam torturing poor Sweet Sue entitled "Along Came Jones."
 
AlexBrowne said:
One of the most beloved R&B groups from the late 1950s and early 1960s was The Coasters, who made us listen and laugh to their offbeat and often humorous songs, written and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, including "Searchin'," "Young Blood," the #1 "Yakety Yak," "Charlie Brown, "Poison Ivy," "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)," and that tale of dastardly Salty Sam torturing poor Sweet Sue entitled "Along Came Jones."
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Perhaps no babysitter in history got a bigger break than Eva Boyd, who as a teenager baby-sat for the husband and wife songwriter team Carole King and Gerry Goffin. King and Goffin asked her to record a demo of a song they had written for Dee Dee Sharp called "The Loco-Motion". Their producer, Don Kirshner liked it, and it was released as Dimension 1000 with Carol King doing the backing vocals. Little Eva became a one hit wonder when the cut went to #1 in 1962.
 
Philadelphia native Dee Dee Sharp helped introduce America to several popular dances of the 60s on "Slow Twistin'" (joining Chubby Checker on their 1962 single) and "Do The Bird," but she is best known for her two mashed potato dance hits, "Mashed Potato Time" and "Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)"; she married Philadelphia International record producer Kenny Gamble (of Gamble and Huff fame) in 1967, and then recorded as Dee Dee Sharp Gamble.
 
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