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Fantastic Oldies Game!

Hammondo, I hate to be the one to tell you but that great set of Camero Parkway tunes was released last year. I have the complete collection in my library. It has all the rare stuff, and is wonderful. (Check with Amazon) At the time Chubby and the others were recording for the label, it was owned by Bernie Lowe, and Kal Mann. The Abkco bunch got their hands on the property in 1967. Come to think of it, the only major artists I know of to own the label he recorded for is Frank Sinatra, who founded and owned Reprise, till he sold it to W E A.
No, I ain't no newsman, but I don't claim to know it all either.
Now back to the game.

HARRY Nillson barely qualifys for this 50's and 60's contest with his recording of Everybody's Talking for RCA in 1969.
 
Mayberry said:
HARRY Nillson barely qualifys for this 50's and 60's contest with his recording of Everybody's Talking for RCA in 1969.
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Joe Jones had a great one in 1961 witth "You Talk Too Much."
 
Mayberry, That's great news about the originaly Cameo-Parkway stuff. Thanks. I have most of that on 45's. I LOVE Bristol Stomp and Hully Gully Baby by the Dovells, and 20 MIles by Chubby.

The game continues with Elvis and Don't Be Cruel - for which I prefer the version from the Ed Sullivan Show (where the Ray Bloch orchestra played along). It begins with Ed saying, "a really big shoe..."
 
Shoe? You handed me that one on a silver platter!


He wore Tan shoes and pink shoe laces,
A polka-dot vest and man, oh, man,
Tan shoes and pink shoe laces,
A big Panama with a purple hat band!

Who could forget that gem from Dodie Stevens from 1959?!
 
Those RRRRs said:
Shoe? You handed me that one on a silver platter!


He wore Tan shoes and pink shoe laces,
A polka-dot vest and man, oh, man,
Tan shoes and pink shoe laces,
A big Panama with a purple hat band!

Who could forget that gem from Dodie Stevens from 1959?!
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Speaking of Hats, Del Shannon had "Hat's Off To Larry," a great revenge song, in 1962 or 1963.
 
That one is indeed a gem, but how about Del Shannon's "Little Town Flirt," barely missing the Top 10 a couple of years later in 1963.
 
ATOWN With Pity was a good one from Gene Pitney. I used to love to introduce it as A Town Without Pitney,(a little humor there,) - very little.
 
The last time I saw "TWP" on TV, they didn't play the song at all. It was replaced by some nasty generic stuff. THATS the pity.

Then, there were the Vogues and MAGIC TOWN and Louis Prima and Keeley Smith sang, That Old Black MAGIC. and Jay and the Americans, with This MAGIC Moment.

O, and the Police sang Every Little Thng She Does is MAGIC .
 
Jay & The Americans has featured two "Jays," but the better known of the two is not really named Jay: the original Jay, Jay Traynor, was the lead on the group's first hit, "She Cried," but he left after that and was replaced by the more famous "Jay," David Blatt, who was the lead on "Come A Little Bit Closer," "Cara, Mia," and all the group's other hits.
 
Great Philly list of talent, but Frankie Avalon didn't record for Parkway (which took it's name in honor of the Ben Franklin Parway leading to the Art museam in Phily). Avalon and Claudine Clark "Party lights" recorded for Chancellor Records. They took their name from the building in which they were located, the chancellor Hotel in South Philly.
 
Right. Frankie Avalon recorded for Chancellor.

WE GOT Love by Bobby Rydell is one of my favorites. Avalon did play trumpet w/Rydell duing the "Rocco and the Saints era.
 
Bobby Rydell had a swinging version of "Volare" in 1960, a remake of the original Italian recording "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)" by Domenico Modugno two years before; Modugno's title is Italian for "In The Blue Sky Painted Blue (To Fly)."
 
Nell, the Pinto is Blue...ah yes I remember it well. Dean Martin also did Volare, as did a lot of crooners in that era, I like Dean's Return to Me, from 1957. Nice ballad.
 
For some reason, Nel Blu by Domenico Modugno ALWAYS scores high in auditorium tests. That's why Dial Global adult standards plays it (nearly) daily and MOYL uses quite high rotation for it. It was a "CHAMP" in my own experience runniing "music battles" as well.

Tequla by the Champs usually is also a high scorer.
 
Just so we remember the game, Those RRR's told us:
You may take any word from the previous post and link to any subject relating to 50's, 60's, 70's oldies.

Sammy Tuner, the Lavender Blue boy, also did a great version of ALWAYS, back in '59 I think.
 
Little Caesar and the Romans did "Those Oldies But Goodies Remind Me of You."
 
IVY Rose, Ivy Rose, I'm in love with you...Perry Como 1957. I know thats really reaching, but thats the only thing I can come up with this late.
 
Mayberry said:
IVY Rose, Ivy Rose, I'm in love with you...Perry Como 1957. I know thats really reaching, but thats the only thing I can come up with this late.
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Did I hear LATE?

How 'bout "It's Late" by Ricky Nelson. A great rockin' hit from the late 50s.
 
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