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Fantastic Oldies Game!

Bobby Rydell was one of those native Philadelphians who rose to fame.

Among his greats was The Cha Cha Cha, which I love.
 
Larry Chance and The Earls were known for "Remember Then," but Bobby Rydell covered that tune, and had a great version of it as well, however one of his greatest tunes was a song he recorded in '58 called "Please Don't Be Mad At Me" under the name Bobby and The Ri-Dells, (I think that was his first record) and while The Cha Cha Cha was a great song by him, can't forget about the greatest cook in town, Sam Cooke, who reminded us in March of 1959 that "Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha."
 
Those RRRRs said:
Larry Chance and The Earls were known for "Remember Then," but Bobby Rydell covered that tune, and had a great version of it as well, however one of his greatest tunes was a song he recorded in '58 called "Please Don't Be Mad At Me" under the name Bobby and The Ri-Dells, (I think that was his first record) and while The Cha Cha Cha was a great song by him, can't forget about the greatest cook in town, Sam Cooke, who reminded us in March of 1959 that "Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha."
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The Drifters had a gem called Please Stay during the early '60s.
 
One of the most remarkable things about The Drifters was how great they sounded no matter whom the group's lead singer was at the time, Clyde McPhatter (on "Honey Love"), Ben E. King (on "There Goes My Baby" and "Save The Last Dance For Me"), Rudy Lewis (on "Up On The Roof" and "On Broadway"), or Johnny Moore (on "Under The Boardwalk" and "Saturday Night At The Movies").
 
Another lead singer of The Drifters was Bobby Hendricks who sang lead on "Drip Drop" in 1958, but Bobby first sang with The Swallows in 1956, then went on to sing "On Bended Knee" b/w "My Only Desire" with The Flyers on Atco in 1957 shortly before his time with The Drifters, but he was probably best known for "Itchy Twitchy Feeling" in September of 1958 after leaving The Drifters for a solo career.
 
The Del Satins, "I'm Feelin' No Pain", later merged with Johnny Maestro from the Crests to form "The Brooklyn Bridge". My Fav..."Welcome Me Love".
 
Less interesting, architecturally, than the Brooklyn Bridge is the Queensboro Bridge, which connects Queens to Manhattan and was the subject (although not referred to in the lyrics) of the Paul Simon composition "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)," which was included on the Simon & Garfunkel album "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme" and a hit single for Harpers Bizarre in 1967.
 
The bridge of a pop song is typically called the "middle eight". It's the eight bars of instrumental music between, or bridging, the 2nd and 3rd verse/chorus. Architechually speaking, it only holds a note.
 
Ninety Eight Point Six (98.6) was the name of a '67 record by James Barry Keefer, otherwise known as 'Keith,' and the back-up group for that song in January of that year was The Tokens.
 
amfmsw said:
The bridge of a pop song is typically called the "middle eight". It's the eight bars of instrumental music between, or bridging, the 2nd and 3rd verse/chorus. Architechually speaking, it only holds a note.
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Ninety Eight Point Six (98.6) was the name of a '67 record by James Barry Keefer, otherwise known as 'Keith,' and the back-up group for that song in January of that year was The Tokens.
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Wow. The "eight" and "bridge" parts were kind of tough. Was afraid would have to go into the 70s to make a song match, something I didn't want to do.

Speaking of The Tokens, they had some great gems including Tonight I Fell In Love as well as their univerally known hit, The Lion Sleeps Tonight from 1962 - the year I was born!
 
The 70's. LOL.

Melba Records was known for group harmony and doo wop records, however, many people have forgotten that Neil Sedaka recorded his first record on Melba with The Tokens in 1958. It was called "While I Dream" and it was b/w an uptempo side called "I Love My Baby" which is a great gem from that era.

*This past weekend I found an early Sedaka record that I forgot I had called "Crying My Heart Out" from around the same time period. Wow! What a great song!
 
Johnny Mathis' recording of "Small World," from the Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical Gypsy starring Ethel Merman, reached the top 20 in 1959.
 
AlexBrowne said:
Johnny Mathis' recording of "Small World," from the Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical Gypsy starring Ethel Merman, reached the top 20 in 1959.
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Did someone say 1959? :)
A duo that would become the biggest surf-rock duo (and one of the biggest duos of rock and roll) had one of their first hits in that great year.

Baby Talk Jan & Dean #10 1959
 
Jan and Dean would continue to chart into the mid 60's, with their easy to swallow, happy tunes. Some were quite tasteful, for example Popsicle in 1966.
 
Finally, something fun on this board (thanks RRRRR) other than "I say it, so it must be so" consul...oh, there goes the blood pressure!

The 1963 "Popsicles And Icesicles" by the Murmaids on Chatahootchie records was written by a very young David Gates of '70's super group, Bread.
 
"I get a high blood pressure when I hear your name. Yeah Yeah Yeah!"

Part of the lyric to "High Blood Pressure" by Huey Smith and The Clowns, the same group of guys who gave us "Rockin' Pneumonia and The Boogie Woogie Flu!"
 
The L.A. rock group Smith had a big hit in 1969 with "Baby It's You," but for many of us the original version by The Shirelles ("cheat, cheat") will always be the favorite.
 
I remember that version. I always liked both, but yes, the "cheat cheat" version was my favorite.

Since we're talking Shirelles and cover versions, Earl Carol and The Cadillacs were known for "Speedo" but they also recorded a lesser known song called "Please Be My Girlfriend." The Shirelles answered that tune with "Please Be My Boyfriend," one of the great and forgotten answer songs of the 50's and 60's.
 
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