Rollin' 1001 - Dreamers - Melba

Originally recorded in 1954 for Philadelphia's Grand label who saw fit not to release it, 'Melba' and its fine flip 'No Man Is An Island' were released in the late '50s by the tiny Rollin' label whose only other known release is 'Night Train' (an instrumental) by The Billy Lane Quartet. Just as record collecting was beginning to become popular in the early 1960s Jerry Weinstein and Eddie Gries found the original stampers and some unused labels of 'Melba' and 'No Man Is An Island' and pressed up 200 copies. These found their way out onto the collectors' market where several people were conned (not by Weinstein and Gries) into thinking that they were buying the exceptionally rare late '50s issue of which only two or three copies were known to exist. Having been made with the original stampers, labels and wax, and therefore indistinguishable from the '50s copies, were the early 1960s issues of 'Melba' not in fact also 'originals'? 'Melba' is a fine example of the mid 50s Philadelphia R'n'B group sound as are 'Tears In My Eyes' and '535', the group's only other recordings which did appear together on Grand in 1954.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• rhythm
• and
• blues
• vocal
• group
• Dreamers
• Melba
• Rollin'
• Grand

[diddybopper49]

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[411Soulman1]

OMG the vocal harmony, the sax licks throughout. Absolutely nice! Why did the saxaphone have to get replaced with the sampling synthesizer and vocoder (daft punk, T-Pain, etc.)? Times have changed, huh.

[doowopman49]

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[DaveSwinger]

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[hah13]

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