I wish you guys could spend some time with my friend Dean Mathis. We work together a lot. He, along with brother Mark and Larry Henley, were the Newbeats (I Like Bread and Butter) (Run, Baby Run). They were really hot in the 60s. He has some wonderful stories about touring with some of the giant acts of the time, such as Roy Orbison, Rolling Stones, Roger Miller, and many others.
DonM

Along with Mr. Alan Freed and the (payola)
do you remember "JOCKO" out of NY??? Do you remember some of the old labels back then...
Bruce Records...Old Town Records, Paradise Records and Andrea Records just to name a few
How about Alan Freeds first live NY Rock & Roll Show.. The Rock & Roll Jubilee ball way back in 1955....Man I could name some groups from back then....The Elegants had a unique sound.....to bad they pi$$ed the man off...
How about the Moonglows, Limelighters..with and without Shep...the Clovers, the Harptones
The Moonlighters, The Cadillac's, The Shirells
The Platters, The Counts, The Flamingos The Heartbeats, The Drifters, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Frankie Lyman & the Teenagers
The Cleftones, The Wonderers and Dion & the Belmont's....I could go on and on....
Come on post some more groups from back then
lets keep alive.....

"E to the O .... IT'S JOCKO!!!.... YEAH BABY ...

how about Johhny Maestro and Brooklyn Bridge ... heard him recently and he even sounds BETTER now..; The Ronettes; The Crystals; The Dell-Vikings; The Dominoes with Clyde McPhatter who later went to the Drifters ... and I believe was replaced there by Jackie Wilson ...; a male/female duo - Johnny and Jo who recorded "Over the Mountain" ... The Crests; The Mystics; The Earls; The Rays; The Silhouettes; ... and on and on...
When I was playing with the band in NYC and someone would request the oldies our sax player, who was into jazz at the age of 10, would cringe because he knew that once we started with the I VI IV V progression, I could go on forever ... ...
t.

Man, you folks are really "bringin it all back"...a really enjoyable trip down memory lane. Haven't thought of some of those groups in ages!


Regards,


Russ

It's amazing how the mind will function with a little nudge ....
Just thought of Lloyd Price and "Personality" ... a tune I will still do once in a while ...
t.

My Favorite was Stagger Lee.....how about
the Five Satins, Duprees, the Coasters,
Skyliners, How about Johnny Maestro when he was with the Crests...Sixteen Candles, Sea Cruise...Frankie Ford...Majestics, Ben E.King
Mel Carter, Danleers,Capris, The Mellow Kings, The casinos, Ed Townsend, Sam Cooke,
and on and on and on...man what a great time in lifes music....

PBS does an oldies doo wop show, around fund raising time, that features what is left of all those groups. Some great stuff, some of the old guys are "carried" by the younger band members as far as high harmony. But pbs sells cd's, tapes, and dvd's of the live performance. Loyd Price, Jerry Butler, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Coasters, Crystals, Edsels, Chiffons, Tokens and alot more. The Dvd's are on the PBS website as Doo Wop 50 and Rock and Roll at 50 and a couple more.

One more thing I think is interesting back in the late 50's and 60's you heard Sinatra, Johnny Cash, The Ventures, Conway Twitty and Doo Wop all on the same radio station we grew up exposed to all kinds of music. A hit was a hit you heard "strangers in the night" right next to the Beatles, next to "I walk the line." Songs like "Lonely Bull", "Cherry pink" "I left my Heart in San Francisco" and Led Zepplin, we were exposed to all that great music from one station, now it is so fragmented there are three kinds of country stations, And I don't even know how many kinds of rock and other formats.




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Bet you never heard of these 50-60s groups:
The Vests
The Emanons (No Name, backwards)
The Spiders
Ray Hartman & The Sequins

Those are a few of the bands I played in during high school and college that I still can remember. We never would have thought of naming ourselves Sex Pistols.

What were the names of your groups?

Eddie

First ever name was Blue Rondos!
Then Dennis and the Devins. Don't ask what a Devin is, because we didn't know.
My best group was Nitelife. Now that's a unique name.
DonM

* Johnnie Green and the Giants (no, damnit, I'm not kidding!)

* Little Enis and the Fabulous Tabletoppers

* The Torques

* The Classics (way too original)

* Russ and Tom

* The Jim Alford Band

* The Preston Weber Experience

* The Russ Lay Trio (catchy...I Like That One)

* The Campbell House 4

WOW...these are awful! I guess you had to have been there!

Russ