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The group is the Turks.

Nice sound. Who's doing the vocal (I can't make out the name on the label)?

From December 1964. Same group as the Nobells. As "Crying Over You," it came out on the Mar label in April 1962..

Always liked this. Cool song.

Turns out that it WAS reissued with a different title. "La-De-Do-De-Do" was Million $ 2010 (Feb 55) and "Honey Bug" (same song) was #2016 (from around June 55).

"Race Of Man" was based on an old poem by Sam Walter Foss (written in the late 1800s or early 1900s). The refrain to both the poem and the song went: "Let me live in a house by the side of the road/And be a friend to man." (And, no, poor old Sam Foss got no writer credit, nor, one suspects, any r...

Found the citation: RCA Victor 20-2231. Etta's version was released in March of 1947 (there's an ad for it in the 4/3/47 issue of Billboard). The Basin Street Boys were definitely ahead of her by about 9 months (they recorded it in May 1946 and it was advertised in the 6/29/46 issue of Billboard)..

I've just heard both versions from 1948 and I was wrong. The Sharp release IS the version by the Ray-O-Vacs. The X-Rays story that I told below is correct, but in addition, Lubinsky purchased the Coleman masters and that's what he put out here.

Really nice.

Didn't notice on the flip (My Mother's Eyes), but the Uniques are a band, not a group. Cromwell's is the only voice on either side. Any idea when this is from?

A true classic (even if the guys in the group hated what they sounded like on record).

This is really nice.

Nice.

The Champions were a really good group. Wish I knew something about them.

@hajune Bragg later claimed that Elvis was at the studio when they recorded, but that's just one of his stories. Elvis did visit the penitentiary later on and may have met Bragg, but not the way Bragg told the story. Consider that two of the Prisonaires had 99 year sentences and the both were rel...

It's amazing how much Thomas Threatt sounds like Rudy West

This is nice. Any idea when it's from. Obviously, George "Dapper" Cromwell decided to put it out on his own label, which always makes dating these things difficult.

The lead singer on this is Bill Brown. Billy Ward didn't often sing lead. He led: My Baby's 3-D, Cave Man, Handwriting On The Wall, Lay It On The Line, Little Black Train, Tootsie Roll, I Really Don't Want To Know, Come To Me Baby, Sweethearts On Parade, Deed I Do, Half A Love, Rock Plymouth Rock...