The Rogues - Chilly Willy

The Rogues - Chilly Willy

Robert & Johnny - You're Mine - Million Dollar Bills

I just picked this up with a bunch of other 45's on the cheap from a crappy flea market. They guy i bought it from was surely dying of cancer as he stunk of rotten eggs and wet cigarette butts. He leaves his records out in the sun to warp and says they are mint. I feel sorry for the guy. He just sits there smoking and no one buys his junk. God, I hope I die before I lose what little touch I have with reality. I wish he had some more good records....

Robert & Johnny - You're Mine

Robert & Johnny - Million Dollar Bills

The Marvelos - She Told Me Lies - Salty Sam

The Marvelos - She Told Me Lies

The Marvelos - Salty Sam

The Young Ones - No, No Don't Make Me Cry

I don't know the year on this but it's some soulful doo-wop so i'm guessing late in the game. Maybe 1963/64, but that is just a guess.... (while writing this i found out they formed in 1963 so my hunch was just about spot on) What little i could find out about the group was that they were of "Hispanic extraction".... The White Doo-Wop Collector has a nice little write up on the group.

The Young Ones - No, No Don't Make Me Cry

The Gems - Monkey Faced Baby

She got hair on her face, built like a Missouri mule.... And i love her yes i do....

The Gems - Monkey Faced Baby

The Cordells - Laid Off

Not getting laid in a good way, here is The Cordells w/ a rocking little Doo Wop number "Laid Off" from 1962 on the Bargin Records label out of N.Y.C.

The Cordells - Laid Off

The Hearts - Oo-Wee

Just picked this up @ the flea market. Great rockin' doo-wop/R&B by the hearts from 1955, who happen to be one of the very 1st "girl groups". I lifted the below from the web. Click the read more Here: link to read the whole deal on The Hearts.

The Hearts was a group formed in New York City in the early fifties.They were one of the very first "girl groups" that had success in the R & B field. Zell Sanders was a budding recording industry entrepreneur bucking the system as a female in a male dominated world. The Hearts consisted of Hazel Crutchfield, Forestine Barnes, Louise Harris, Joyce West, and pianist and male member Rex Garvin. Finding a label to record the group was not easy but soon Sanders had made contact with a small local label named Baton Records and its neophyte president Sol Rabinowitz. He liked what he heard and in the first few days of 1955 "Lonely Nights" and "Oo-Wee" was released on Baton # 208...

Read More HERE:

The Hearts - Oo-Wee

Marty Gino - Cry Baby, Sigh Ba-A-By

Today's flea market find. I knew nothing about this before i bought it and still don't, but it was cheap and looked interesting. It's a mild type teen rocker, maybe a bit like a more poppy rockabilly tune....?

Marty Gino - Cry Baby, Sigh Ba-A-By

The Palisades - This Is The Nite - Relic Rock

Cool little record on a cool little label. Front side is a doo wopper and this being from 1964 they must have been hanging on to that sound for dear life, as that was the beggining of the end for that style w/ the British invasion and all. The back side is a soulful instrumental stroller. Nothing amazing but pretty neat.

The Palisades - This Is The Nite

The Palisades - Relic Rock

Dandevilles - Nasty Breaks

Nasty Breaks.... Something most of us know all too well. Great uptempo R&B / Doo Wop classic in The Coasters style. 1959.

Dandevilles - Nasty Breaks

Garry Lee - They Don't See

They never do do they?

Garry Lee - They Don't See

The Cadillacs - Broken Heart - My Girl Friend

Going in the way back time machine here w/ some R&B/Doo Wop from 1957 from The Cadillacs. I post another 45 by them HERE: a while back. To some people this style of music is a dead art form but i personally really dig it. And yes, i still still listen to Celtic Frost, Hellhammer & Discharge....

As for The Cadillacs, here is the wiki info:

The Cadillacs were an American rock and roll and doo-wop group from Harlem, New York; active from 1953 to 1962. The group was noted for their 1955 hit "Speedoo", which was instrumental in attracting White audiences to Black rock and roll performers.

The group came together as The Carnations in 1953, with members Earl Carroll (lead vocalist), Bobby Phillips, Lavern Drake (bass vocalist), and Gus Willingham. As the group moved into the recording studios, James "Poppa" Clark was added as a fifth member, and the name "The Cadillacs" was given to them. The group's first recording came in July 1954, with Josie Records #765, featuring Gloria and Wonder Why.
In 1955, Willingham and Clark left the group and were replaced by Earl Wade and Charles Brooks. At this time, the group first began to experiment with choreography, suggested by manager Esther Navarro. Later that year came the group's biggest hit, "Speedoo", Carroll's nickname. Lavern Drake left the group in 1956 and was replaced by J. R. Bailey.
In 1957, differences in opinion caused the group to split. One group was initially known as The Four Cadillacs, with current bass J. R. Bailey, former bass Lavern Drake, and new members Roland Martinez and Bobby Spencer. The previous year, Bobby Spencer had written the "My Boy Lollipop" pop song shuffle for Barbie Gaye, which was played by Alan Freed and secured Barbie Gaye a spot in his 1956 Christmas Show opening for Little Richard. In 1964, an Ernest Ranglin produced ska version of the she song became a multi-million seller for Jamaican teenager Millie Small and made producer Chris Blackwell rich, leading to further development of his Island Records label.
The other four current members - Carroll, Wade, Brooks, and Phillips - continued recording separately, later as Earl Carroll and the Cadillacs. Bailey's group also included former group saxophonist Jesse "Tex" Powell, and recorded in early 1958 as Jesse Powell and the Caddys. Both groups recorded simultaneously on Josie Records. Later in 1958, the groups combined back into one. Carroll's backup vocalists, Wade, Brooks, and Phillips, all decided to retire and Carroll joined Bailey, Drake, Martinez and Spencer. Carroll's lead spot had been given to Spencer and Bailey, and he left shortly thereafter, creating a new group, Speedo and the Pearls, which recorded briefly in 1959. In 1959, the Cadillacs are also featured in the movie Go Johnny, Go
The group split and re-formed in 1960, with Carroll, Martinez, Kirk Davis, and bass Ronnie Bright. Later the group was Carroll, Martinez, the returning Bobby Spencer, Milton Love, and Reggie Barnes. Martinez, Love and Barnes were all members of The Solitares at one time.
In 1961, the group began to resemble The Coasters in their music. The lineup shifted again, now with Carroll, Martinez, Curtis Williams, Ray Brewster, and Irving Lee Gail. Carroll was out by 1963 to enter the group they'd been emulating, The Coasters, with Carl Gardner, Billy Guy, and former Cadillac Ronnie Bright. 1963 also ended the group's run on Josie Records.
Brewster and Martinez brought in former members Bobby Spencer and J. R. Bailey and continued to record through 1963. The group split, with Bailey joining the Jive Five. Brewster brought in former Cadillac/Solitare Milton Love with Solitares Bobby Baylor and Fred Barksdale. This group recorded briefly in 1964. Spencer became lead vocalist, with Joey Levine (Ohio Express, Reunion) as backing vocalist, for Crazy Elephant, a bubblegum music group, in 1969.
The Cadillacs were back in 1970 with J. R. Bailey, Bobby Spencer, original member Bobby Phillips (who had retired from Speedo's group during the split), and new member Leroy Binns, of The Charts. Steven Brown later replaced Phillips. Teddy Pendergrass came on as the groups drummer. The group split into the mid 1970s and some members joined Herold Melvin and the Bluenotes, including Teddy Pendergrass as drummer. In 1979 Earl Carroll, Earl Wade, Bobby Phillips, and Johnny Brown came together for a Subaru commercial.

The Cadillacs - Broken Heart

The Cadillacs - My Girl Friend

The Accents - Wiggle, Wiggle - Dreamin' And Schemin'

I just picked this up at the flea market last weekend and while it was a bit more than the usual dollar i pay for 45's it was still under double figures and worth every penny.

The Accents, from Hollywood California give 2 great great Doo Wop tunes here w/ the "hit" being Wiggle Wiggle, a song that came out during the “sack” dress fad. The song was released in October, 1958, and contended that a girl didn’t have to be pretty, or wear good clothes; she just had to wear a “sack” dress, and “wiggle” where it showed the most...

Dudes aint changed a bit since the dawn of time

Personnel:

James Jackson (Lead)

Israel Goudeau (Tenor)

Robert Drapper (Tenor)

Bobby Armstrong (Baritone)

Billy Hood (Bass)

enjoy.

The Accents - Wiggle, Wiggle

The Accents - Dreamin' And Schemin'

Shep and the Limelites - Daddy's Home - This I Know

This one goes out to my boys who at the time of hearing this for the 1st time had no idea this was a guy singing to a girl and took it literally and would miss me when i was away.... To this day they both still ask me to play this one in the car and both asked for it in their iPods.... It's a good one.

Here is the wiki info:

Shep & The Limelites was an American doo-wop group of the early 1960s. They are best known for their 1961 hit recording, "Daddy's Home".

James Sheppard ("Shep") and Clarence Bassett, both from Queens County, New York, and Charles Baskerville, originally from Virginia, organized a group in Queens in 1960. This was billed initially as Shane Sheppard And The Limelites, but quickly became Shep and the Limelites. All three had previous experience in other groups: Shep with The Heartbeats (notable for "A Thousand Miles Away"); Bassett with The Five Sharps and then, with Baskerville, in The Videos.
Shep & The Limelites' recording sessions for Hull Records started in August 1960. They recorded the original version of "Daddy's Home" on February 1, 1961. "Daddy's Home" reached no. 2 on the Billboard popular music chart in May, and was covered by Jermaine Jackson (1972), Toots and the Maytals (Funky Kingston 1973), and Junior English. Later songs were not as successful as "Daddy's Home", but still sold well; among these were "What Did Daddy Do", "Ready For Your Love" and "Our Anniversary".
Kahl Music, publisher of "A Thousand Miles Away", an earlier song written by Sheppard, sued Keel Music, publisher of "Daddy's Home", for copyright violation. Keel eventually lost, and this resulted in the end of the Limelites and Hull Records in 1966. Bassett joined The Flamingos and Baskerville joined The Players and then The Drifters.[1] Sheppard re-formed the Limelites in the late 1960s, but died on January 24, 1970. He was found dead in his car on the Long Island Expressway, having been beaten and robbed. Baskerville died, at age 58 on January 18, 1995 in New York. Bassett died on January 25, 2005, at age 68 from the complications of emphysema, at his home in Richmond, Virginia.


Shep and the Limelites - Daddy's Home

Shep and the Limelites - This I Know

Wade Flemons and the Newcomers - Where I Stand - My Baby Likes To Rock

Great late 50's (1958) Doo Wop by Wade Flemons and the Newcomers on the great Vee jay record label.

Born on 25 September 1940 in Coffeyville (Kansas), he died of cancer the 13 October 1993 at the age of 53 years.

Here I stand hit # 18 on the billboard rhythm and blues chart.

Wade Flemons and the Newcomers - Where I Stand

Wade Flemons and the Newcomers - My Baby Likes To Rock

The Colts - Shiek Of Araby - Guiding Angel

The Colts is one of two black vocal groups that came out of Bakersfield, California (the other group was The Paradons of "Diamonds and Pearls" fame). Lead singer Ruben Grundy, his brother Joe Grundy, and Carl Moland lived on the same street in Bakersfield. When the three moved to Los Angeles to attend L.A. City College, they put together a vocal group with fellow student Leroy Smith, who came from New Jersey. (Love all things Jersey!)

Read more HERE:

The Colts - Shiek Of Araby

The Colts - Guiding Angel

Unknown Acapella Doo Wop Group - (Del Rockers?)

Ok, so i bought this acetate for 25 cents and I'm a bit puzzled (not hard to do). There are 2 different sets of writing on this thing. The pencil underneath i can not make out, but on top of the pencil in pen it says Del Rockers, 1981, Ricky - Tom - Frank - Walt + Mike on both sides. Is this really from 1981? I have several other Audiodisc acetates and they look just like this one but are from the early to late 50's. Were they still making these audiodisc acetates in 1981? and the acapella doo wop sounds on this sound hauntingly authentic. Did the Del Rockers nail it in 1981? Or did some band called the Del Rockers mock up this acetate as a goof or trick? I don't know.... Both tunes are pretty good for accapella, which I'm not really a big fan of. I don't really know the names of the songs but i took a stab considering they say the same thing a bunch of times in each song. If any of this rings a bell drop a note and let me know. Thanks.

Unknown Acapella Doo Wop Group - Memories Of You

Unknown Acapella Doo Wop Group - It's Really Love

Robert & Johnny - We Belong Together - Walking In The Rain

Robert & Johnny were an American doo-wop duo from The Bronx.

The duo's full names were Robert Carr and Johnny Mitchell; they released about a dozen singles for Old Town Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Two of them charted; "We Belong Together", which hit #12 on the U.S. Black Singles chart and #32 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958, and "I Believe In You", which hit #93 on the Hot 100 later that year. They wrote most of their own songs, and were distinguished by their vocal style, which Richie Unterberger has described as "one smoky, one nasal".

"We Belong Together" was a 1958 American rhythm and blues hit by Robert & Johnny. It was written by Johnny Mitchell, Robert Carr, and Sam Weiss. It reached #12 on the R&B charts and #32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The song was later recorded by several others. The Fleetwoods released a version on their 1959 album, Mr. Blue.
A rendition by Ritchie Valens was released in 1959 on the Del-Fi record label and can be found on several of his albums. It's also featured in a scene from the 1987 hit film about Valens, La Bamba.
The Belmonts released a remake on the Laurie label, Laurie 3080, in 1961, after they had split with Dion. It was not a hit, but was later reissued on a collector's label because of its musical value.
In 1961, Jimmy Velvit recorded it in the Dallas, Texas area. (see "Rockin' With Velvit" CD Seduction Records SCD-102, 2000) It attracted a lot of attention and air-play and became the #1 song on the Dallas radio station, KLIF, for a period of six weeks.
A different singer using the name Jimmy Velvet had a #75 hit with the song on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964.
Peaches & Herb included the song on their album, Let's Fall In Love.

Robert & Johnny - We Belong Together

Robert & Johnny - Walking In The Rain

22 New Songs: The Excellents, The Elchords, The Cadillacs, Ron Holden, Joe Hinton, Ronnie Love, The Blue-Belles, Safaris, Little Willie John, Etc...

A bunch more 45's i picked up recently. I figure if i don't start putting these up in bulk i am never going to get to all the crap i have... I'm going to try to bunch some 45's like this on the reg.... Anyway, there is a nice mix of music here of all different styles from 1955 to the early 60's, if you can't find something you like in this bunch you should move along and never come back...

The Excellents - Coney Island Baby


The Excellents - Why Did You Laugh


Elchords – Peppermint Stick


The Cadillacs - Gloria


The Cadillacs - I Wonder Why


Ron Holden - My Babe


Ron Holden - Love You So


Joe Hinton - Love Sick Blues


Joe Hinton - You Know It Aint Right


Ronnie Love - No Use Pledging My Love


Ronnie Love - Chills And Fever


The Blue-Belles - I Sold My Heart To The Junkman


The Blue-Belles - Itty Bitty Twist


The Safaris - Image Of A Girl


The Safaris - 4 Steps To Love


Little Willie John - Until Again My Love


Little Willie John - Mister Glenn


Chris Powell And The Blue Flames - Goodbye Little Girl


Chris Powell And The Blue Flames - Chinatown


The 3 Friends- Happy As A Man Can Be


The 3 Friends - Dedicated (To The Songs I Love)


Micki Marlo - Little By Little