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Fantastic Oldies Game!

Yeah, I'm still alive, sitting on the sideline watching the show, boys. Where to begin? Len Barry had 3 hits in the Delaware Valley: the crispy burnt 1-2-3 (with the middle eight solo sax desperately needing a new reed), Philly-Fav-follow-up "Like A Baby" and a cover of the Tymes cover of West Side Story's "Somewhere"...all on Decca.

My fav Peaches & Herb duet is still their first on Date Records, "Let's Fall In Love". Same arrangements and recording techniques used by Harrisburg's Magnificent Men... remember them? They were the original "horn" Blue-Eyed Soul "Showband & Revue".

Date was also home to the great Rod Argent's Zombies.
 
AlexBrowne said:
(Never fear, GridLeak, AlexBrowne was just out of town -- in Philly and Dallas, for business and pleasure -- and took a vacation from the Internet.)

There have been four others, but the original Peaches of Peaches & Herb was the late Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker (whose mother gave her the famous nickname as a newborn because of her peachlike fuzzy cheeks!), who had been in the vocal group Sweet Things, and teamed up with Herb Fame in the mid-60s to record "Close Your Eyes" and other singles; the most successful "Peaches," however, has been Linda Green whose duets with Fame in the late 70s, particularly "Shake Your Groove Thing" and "Reunited," were huge hits -- the latter was #1 on both the pop and R&B charts.
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(Welcome back Alex.)

Late in 1960, Curtis Lee started writing songs in partnership with a friend, Tommy Boyce of the Boyce & Hart songwriting-producing-singing duo. Lee's first two singles, "Special Love" and "Pledge of Love," were passionate but otherwise unexceptional performances that failed to chart. His third record, “Pretty Little Angel Eyes”, cut on the Dunes label (Dunes 2007) with vocal backing by ‘The Halos’ and Phil Spector running the session, made the Top 10 in 1961 and was Lee's biggest hit.
 
amfmsw said:
Yeah, I'm still alive, sitting on the sideline watching the show, boys. Where to begin? Len Barry had 3 hits in the Delaware Valley: the crispy burnt 1-2-3 (with the middle eight solo sax desperately needing a new reed), Philly-Fav-follow-up "Like A Baby" and a cover of the Tymes cover of West Side Story's "Somewhere"...all on Decca.

My fav Peaches & Herb duet is still their first on Date Records, "Let's Fall In Love". Same arrangements and recording techniques used by Harrisburg's Magnificent Men... remember them? They were the original "horn" Blue-Eyed Soul "Showband & Revue".

Date was also home to the great Rod Argent's Zombies.
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(Thanks, amfmsw, for helping to keep this thread alive.)

In 1911, Charles Dawes, an amateur pianist and flautist and future Vice-President of the U.S. under Calvin Coolidge, composed “Melody In A Major”. The composition was often critically referred to as “Dawes Melody”. Lyrics were added by Carl Sigman in 1951 and it became a hit record (#1 for six weeks) for Tommy Edwards in 1958 as, “It's All In The Game". It is the only #1 pop single in history to have been cowritten by a U.S. Vice President.
 
His real name is Gary Anderson, but we know him better as Gary (U.S.) Bonds thanks to his string of upbeat top 10 hits in the early 60s: "New Orleans," "Quarter To Three" (his only #1 record), "School Is Out," "Dear Lady Twist," and "Twist, Twist Senora"; a prolific songwriter in both the rock and country fields, he's still an active performer today at the age of 68.
 
Hank Ballard and The Midnighters recorded "Work With Me Annie," which was part of a series of records including "Annie Had A Baby," "Annie's Aunt Fanny," "Dance With Me Henry," (Georgia Gibbs) and Hank's answer to Gibbs' record called "Henry's Got Flat Feet."
 
Those RRRRs said:
Hank Ballard and The Midnighters recorded "Work With Me Annie," which was part of a series of records including "Annie Had A Baby," "Annie's Aunt Fanny," "Dance With Me Henry," (Georgia Gibbs) and Hank's answer to Gibbs' record called "Henry's Got Flat Feet."
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Bobby Freeman recorded for the Autumn Records label in San Francisco. He is best known for his 1958 hit "Do You Want To Dance?", covered later (as "Do You Wanna Dance") by Del Shannon, The Beach Boys, John Lennon and The Ramones, and his 1964 Top Ten hit, "C'mon and Swim". The latter record was written and produced by twenty-year-old Sylvester Stewart, later known as Sly Stone. Bobby Freeman played at the Condor nightclub in San Francisco nightly in 1964 when Carol Doda began go-go dancing there topless.
 
Beatles manager Brian Epstein teamed up Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, and together they produced a fine two-sided hit record in 1964, "Little Children" and "Bad To Me," the latter written by Lennon and McCartney; several other singles followed in 1964 and 1965, but none of the others cracked the Top 20.
 
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Beatles manager Brian Epstein teamed up Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, and together they produced a fine two-sided hit record in 1964, "Little Children" and "Bad To Me," the latter written by Lennon and McCartney; several other singles followed in 1964 and 1965, but none of the others cracked the Top 20.
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Tommy Brown was an R&B singer who achieved most success in the early 1950s, particularly on records with The Griffin Brothers. In 1949 he recorded "Atlanta Boogie" on the Regent label, a subsidiary of Savoy Records. The track contained early references to rock and roll :
Well, the whole town's rockin' just about the break of day
Well, when the bar starts jumpin' you can hear the cats all say
Well, let's rock'n'roll, well, let's rock'n'roll
Yes, let's rock'n'roll till the break of day...
In 1951 he moved on to Dot where he was teamed with the Griffin Brothers, an R&B orchestra, and recorded as the backing band for Margie Day on two R&B top ten hits "Street Walkin' Daddy" and "Little Red Rooster".
 
Baby boomers remember her for her starring roles in the TV series My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show, but Gale Storm (born Josephine Cottle) was also a leading lady in movies during the 1940s and early 1950s, and had no few than six Top Ten singles on the Dot label between 1955-1957: "I Hear You Knocking," "Memories Are Made Of This," "Teen Age Prayer," "Why Do Fools Fall In Love," "Ivory Tower," and "Dark Moon."
 
Yes, boomers remember and thank her for her milk-toast caucasion adult cover of Smiley Lewis' "Knockin" and the Teenagers "Fools". And let's not forget Pat Boone's covers of Fats Domino and and Little Richard! It was the reason rock'n roll took off! That music was gawdawful.
Real ear-candy...you needed insulin after an hour.

Hey guys, we're homing in on 10,000!
 
Don't forget about The Drifters' early record called "Fools Fall In Love," on Atlantic Records, and a real gem which received some airplay was called "Fools Will Take Chances" by Johnny Gosey.

*And yes amfmsw, we're definitely honing in on 10,000. I think this is the second most popular thread on the board. In "Off The Air," the fantastic word game has about 13,000, but that one is starting to slow down a bit. We're catching up!
 
Those RRRRs said:
Don't forget about The Drifters' early record called "Fools Fall In Love," on Atlantic Records, and a real gem which received some airplay was called "Fools Will Take Chances" by Johnny Gosey.

*And yes amfmsw, we're definitely honing in on 10,000. I think this is the second most popular thread on the board. In "Off The Air," the fantastic word game has about 13,000, but that one is starting to slow down a bit. We're catching up!
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A lot has been said of Chuck Berry, so there’s no need in me repeating it. March 17, 1958: Chuck Berry hits #1 on the R&B chart and #2 on the pop chart with “Sweet Little Sixteen”(Chess 1683) and #2 on the R&B chart and #8 (6/09) on the pop chart with “Johnny B. Goode”. “Johnny B. Goode” was written by Berry about his pianist/sidekick Johnnie Johnson.
 
Don't forget about the girl group gem from 1958 by The Antwinetts called "Johnny" on RCA Victor records.
 
Those RRRRs said:
Don't forget about the girl group gem from 1958 by The Antwinetts called "Johnny" on RCA Victor records.
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In 1929, Radio Corporation of America (RCA) purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the world's largest manufacturer of phonographs, including the famous "Victrola" and phonograph records. The company then became RCA-Victor. RCA Victor developed and released the first 33⅓-rpm records to the public in 1931, and in 1949 developed and released the first 45 rpm record to the public. The 45-rpm record became the standard for pop singles with running times similar to 10-inch 78-rpm discs (less than four minutes per side). In 1955, RCA purchased the recording contract of Elvis Presley from Sun Records for the then astronomical sum of $35,000. Elvis would become RCA's biggest selling recording artist. His first gold record was “Heartbreak Hotel”, recorded in January 1956.
 
GridLeakBias said:
Those RRRRs said:
Don't forget about the girl group gem from 1958 by The Antwinetts called "Johnny" on RCA Victor records.
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In 1929, Radio Corporation of America (RCA) purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the world's largest manufacturer of phonographs, including the famous "Victrola" and phonograph records. The company then became RCA-Victor. RCA Victor developed and released the first 33⅓-rpm records to the public in 1931, and in 1949 developed and released the first 45 rpm record to the public. The 45-rpm record became the standard for pop singles with running times similar to 10-inch 78-rpm discs (less than four minutes per side). In 1955, RCA purchased the recording contract of Elvis Presley from Sun Records for the then astronomical sum of $35,000. Elvis would become RCA's biggest selling recording artist. His first gold record was “Heartbreak Hotel”, recorded in January 1956.
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Sorry gang, I meant to add this to my original post, but the timer ran out. This is sad, as was the same sort of story with Chess, as so much original history in the music field was undoubtedly lost forever.

RCA Victor decided to demolish their Camden warehouse in the early 1960s. This warehouse held four floors' worth of catalog and vault masters (most of them pre-tape wax and metal discs), test pressings, lacquer discs, matrix ledgers, and rehearsal recordings. A few days before the demolition took place, some collectors from the USA and Europe were allowed to go through the warehouse and salvage whatever they could take with them for their personal collections. Soon after, collectors and RCA Records officials watched from a nearby bridge as the warehouse was demolished, with many studio masters still intact in the building. The remnants were bulldozed into the Delaware River and a pier was built on top of them. In 1973, when the company decided to release all of Rachmaninoff's recordings on LPs (to celebrate the centennial of the composer's birth), RCA was forced to go to record collectors for materials, as documented by Time.
 
In 1960, Perry Como had a modest hit on RCA Victor records with "Delaware," a novelty song written by Irving Gordon, a series of puns on the names of states... some highlights (lowlights?):

What did Del-a-ware, boy?
She wore a brand New Jersey,

Why did Cali-fon-ia?
She called to say Ha-wa-ya,

Oh what did Missi sip, boy?
She sipped a Minne sota,

Where has Oregon, boy?
She went to pay her Texas,

How did Wis-con-sin, boy?
She stole a New-brass-key,

Too bad that Arkan saw, boy,
And so did Tenne-see,

It made poor Flori-di, boy,
She died in Miss-our-I
 
AlexBrowne said:
In 1960, Perry Como had a modest hit on RCA Victor records with "Delaware," a novelty song written by Irving Gordon, a series of puns on the names of states... some highlights (lowlights?):

What did Del-a-ware, boy?
She wore a brand New Jersey,

Why did Cali-fon-ia?
She called to say Ha-wa-ya,

Oh what did Missi sip, boy?
She sipped a Minne sota,

Where has Oregon, boy?
She went to pay her Texas,

How did Wis-con-sin, boy?
She stole a New-brass-key,

Too bad that Arkan saw, boy,
And so did Tenne-see,

It made poor Flori-di, boy,
She died in Miss-our-I
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“White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song whose lyrics reminisce about White Christmases. The morning after he wrote the song — Berlin usually stayed up all night writing — the songwriter went to his office and told his musical secretary, "Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I've ever written — hell, I just wrote the best song that anybody's ever written!". "White Christmas" was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1942 musical “Holiday Inn”. The song was also the title theme for the 1954 musical White Christmas, starring Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen, which was the biggest-grossing film of 1954. Eventually Crosby's "White Christmas" single sold more than 50 million copies. Clyde McPhatter's group, The Drifters, covered "White Christmas" late in 1954. For decades, this version was primarily heard on R & B radio stations, and got little exposure elsewhere.
 
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