The Charms - Hearts Made Of Stone

[HoboGus]

One person's head is goin' in that fuckn' oven!!!!!!

[kssolomon]

@rob20042.. you are fortunate to work with such a wondergul man.. He is very high on my favorite people list...His lovely wife was kind enough to take the last pic i have of us together  at tbyrd's studio...

[trtomthedrummer2]

This version was a hit in December 1954... as listed on "The Greatest Hits of 1954" released on the Deluxe label. Nice clean copy, sounds great!!

[TheEarthling3133]

This is the one I remember ... I did hear the white cover but liked this better. Never heard the Jewels but I see if it is on the tube

[Lakota305]

@DrusyRicher26  Okay?

[43superbob]

iT WAS NUMBER one in Houston Texas for the longest time, This was the best of all the others that did there version!

[embalmermike]

The Jewels did the original in '54..Doesn't anyone have that???

[NottinghamForest22]

"if another letter from that school goes to that kid's house, in the fucking oven your gonna go head first"

[Lakota305]

@NottinghamForest22 I forgot about that movie. Heh.

[HoboGus]

@NottinghamForest22

I almost fell off my chair laughn' when I read this........that's the best line in the movie Goodfellows ( my favorite movie).

[USACubana]

LaVern Baker recorded this too. Hot!

[CaptainPommby]

Awesome!

[jjohnnyjohnson]

i like the jewels version the best.

[longfoot]

Shoot, Dot records, Pat Boone, the Fontaines, etc all became fat cats from stealing songs from black artists. It certainly was not a muscial era Americans can associate with any pride.

[mikep1229]

Otis had a voice that could appeal to both white and African-American audiences. That's why this song went to number 15 on the pop charts at a time when most r and b groups weren't making it there.

[Georgewos]

I remember this song when I was a teenager. Songs like this was covered by more famous singerslike The Fontanne Singers, and especially Pat Boone.Nocomparisons to the originals.

[mobetman]

My father is the co-writer of this song so I love it. Thanks for playing it.

[whitefalcon64]

This is my favourite, even over Fontaine Sisters

[TomthatiscalledTom]

A song that still strikes fear into the hearts of Brooklynn mail men......

[i742]

lol!

[DJhiphouse]

GOOD ONE..Tomthatiscalledtom

[tsmithers]

Hearts of Stone by The Fontaine Sisters was the "hit" version of this song. Went to #1.

[57Will]

It was, but by the time they did the song, it was so completely unrecognizable from the Jewels original it was ridiculous. Incidentally, the Charms' version did hit #1 on Billboard's R&B charts.

[nigsvon]

Thanks for posting this great song!

[oldschoolen1]

this song was in goodfellas..

[embalmermike]

The Jewels did this ist..The original is bets(Most times)Can anyone post the one by the Jewels??

[karessong]

my good friend eddy ray wrote this song with rudy jackson.. I miss you and sorry i missed your last two visits to the studio.. did you get a new email.. i tried and it won't fly.. call tbyrd and make sure i get your new one.. love you soooo mush .. you know that for sure.

[Lakota305]

Are you sure you're talking to me? :-)

[rob70042]

@karessong I work with Eddie at the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame.He is an awsome guy. I love hearing his old storys and I have learned a lot from him

[bmxgenie]

nice version, good post was this before the fontane sistes?

[Lakota305]

I think it was the same year: 1955.

[karessong]

eddy ray told me the facts but he told me so many great stories that it's hard to remember them all.. a 55 recording sounds right..

[Inuyasha2264]

The book I'm looking at now says 1954, both of them. That doesn't make it true of course, just saying.

[nismo73222]

Fogerty did my fav

[nismo73222]

the version done by John Fogerty was the best

[dippercat]

A few months ago I discovered that the original version was done by The Jewels.

[57Will]

Yes, it was originally done by the Jewels, on the tiny R&B label. But while their version did make Cash Box' R&B charts, it was this version by the Charms (featuring Otis Williams)on the Deluxe label that went to #1 on Billboard's R&B charts in 1954. By the time the Fontane Sisters covered the Charms' cover and took it to #1 on the pop charts, it sounded nothing at all like either the Jewels nor the Charms.

[dippercat]

Yes, the Fontane Sister's version is laughable. Most whiter cover versions of the original black R&B classics were laughable, although some were truly great: Bill Haley's cover of "Rocket 88",

Johnny Ray's cover of "Just Walking in the Rain"

and all of Elvis' covers on his early Sun reccordings.

[57Will]

Indeed, the Fontane Sisters' version is truly laughable.

[dippercat]

What is your vote for the worst white cover of all time? I say that the two absolute worst are Georgia Gibbs "Dance with me Henry" and Pat Boone's "Ain't That A Shame".

[schtoonkmeyer]

sh-boom by the crewcuts was the absolute worst white cover of the chords great hit

[57Will]

Agreed!

[63dawg]

All of Pat Boone's covers were ludicrous. Try him on "Tutie Fruitie"

[57Will]

To me, the real charm of the Jewels original was in the vocal group backing, the "doo doo wah da doo doo wah da doo", which sounded tougher and more insistent. At least to me it did.

[naylortube]

Good job, thanks for posting. need more people to do this with their old albums.