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The Crests were in NYC. Let Berry Gordy alone. Integrated were ok they were not the BOMB! I saw Santo and Johnny the Crests and the Del Vikings in person. So! But I also saw every othe black group who could sing, and dance as well as they could sing. For Black folks we expect OUTSTANDING performances. Because we have folks who could sing their asses off in church , in our homes and who are our relatives. So they better to SUPERLATIVE NEVER MEDIOCORE.

yourgrandmadarling 1 year ago

It was Marty Coleman singing singing lead on, "Take A Chance", "While I'm Away" "I Found A Girl" and "You'll Be Sorry Someday". Stuart Avig was the lead singer on "Greetings" and Jerry Light had the deep voice at the end of the song. Both Jerry and Marty have passed away.

gamblinfool5 1 year ago

@gamblinfool5 thanks for the info, sorry to hear Marty and Jerry arent around anymore

MotownMaster 1 year ago

What do you mean Barry told them to came back as one color? Why didn't he tell Bobby Taylor and The Vancouvers to come back as one color? Barry never cared about color all he cared about was talent, I don't think he would ever say that to anyone

delano422 1 year ago

@delano422 Because in the late 50's there were intergrated groups like The Del Vikings and others, but by 1961 they werent the "In" thing anymore, and by the time The Vancouvers showed up, it was about racial harmony and it was a totally different era

MotownMaster 1 year ago

@MotownMaster I was involved in the mucis business in the early 60's and your answer makes no sense.

hxo20292 1 year ago

@hxo20292 i just read somewhere Berry told them to come back in one color

MotownMaster 1 year ago

Leave it to Berry Gordy! I'm glad he didn't record the Crests!! Inter racial Doo Wop groups are the bomb!!

ODonnellTommy 1 year ago

the monitors versoin is way better not so slow

lexi4booksilovebenji 1 year ago

I'm surprised it only made it to #89. It was played as often as a top 40 song in Oakland.

srercrcr 2 years ago

This was always my favorite version, a great dance song. Got drafted about a year later.

srercrcr 2 years ago

stu avig the lead singer is one of the greatest people in the world. A talent that was never appreciated

cotednel 2 years ago

Cruzzing the Oldies this evening, and thought of this song. No I say,, it will not be here.....Hooly shit, It was the first 45 I had ever bought winter of 91/92 for .10 thats cents at a malt shop. It was also one of 3300 45,s I had collected thru the years. There is a lot of memories here.

More then I can state in the 180 characters I have left. "now 139 or 132.

Thanks for this "O" thanks Bob Garnic and WLLH <should have givin me the job even if I was only 15..Hey was that on a Decca Label

rdsofree 2 years ago

i liked this version better back then and now

justice000777 2 years ago

That's what I said.

Read my 2nd paragraph again. Maybe I should have written it as "...the Doo Wop style was more in line with the 1961 Valadiers version than in the Monitors 1966 version. But I still think the Monitors lead singer did a much better job at expressing his anguish (maybe just a bit over the top) and vocal phrasing than the singer in this one.

oa 3 years ago

Not to take away from this singer, but The Monitors version has a LOT more soul, feeling and fluid vocal phrasing (listen to the vocal vamping at the end while the "sargent" is barking out orders) than this one.

However, the Doo Wop style was more in line with 1961 than in [the Monitors] 1966 version.

oa 3 years ago

Sorry oa, but this is more of a Doo-Wop version then the Monitors. The lead singer is outstanding. This version is the real thing, for they are singing Doo-Wop, the greatest sounding music to one's ear.

stripemister 3 years ago

Great record,Jerry Light is the one who "makes" this record. He spent some time with me in one of my record shops in CS in the early 80s. He had lots of interesting stories to tell & was a very personable guy. Jerry, where ever you are I think of you whenever I hear this record & reflect on the stories you told me back then.

wurlitzer1450 3 years ago

I love this song (as well as the Monitors version -- reminds me of my DI in the end lol) thanks for posting this up!

SpiritOf1775 3 years ago

Ah so its Jerry Light who has the deep voice, so is he the one singing lead on, "Take A Chance", "While Im Away" "I Found A Girl" and "You'll Be Sorry Someday"?

MotownMaster 4 years ago

Nope he was just leading in that song.

ryp7390 4 years ago

What a great, great Doo Wop sound. To those of us who were drafted into the Army in the early 60s, this song fit that time. Black, white, yellow, orange, I don't care what color they were, for the Valadier's played Doo Wop, the greatest sounding music to one's ear. Thanks MotownMaster. I've been looking for this song on YouTube, for a good while. Can you imagine all the wet seats that there would be if female Teenie Boopers of today could hear a group of their peers sing "Greetings?"

stripemister 4 years ago