This Week's Top 10 Chart

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Dave B, Nov 28, 2003.

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  1. Ed Bishop

    Ed Bishop Incredibly, I'm still here

    Grant,

    We've known each other for a few years now. I do believe Steve was defending you.....

    ...but, if you haven't heard "New Orleans", no shame in that. I come across new(but really old)stuff every so often....never heard the old hits before, big hits, from the '40s, early '50s.....happens.

    We're all buds here.....:D


    ED:cool:
     
  2. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    Ok, I found it. It's on my "The Rock 'N' Roll Era: 1960" I'm playing it now...nope Steve, you loose! I never heard it before. I did ingore it. I've had this CD for a decade.

    There are a LOT of early 60s CD comps I haven't touched in years!
     
  3. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    You know, ED, this is a mighty fine-sounding CD. Joe Sasfy and Steve Carr did a great job on these!

    This volume is a nice little collection, too! It has many of my favorite hits on it, including many of the songs in this week's top ten.
     
  4. Casino

    Casino Senior Member

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    Right, Ed. What I said is that most people don't know anything about Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs other than that one hit, "Stay."

    But "I Remember," "Always" and "Do You Believe" are also very good records - but hardly anyone knows them.
     
  5. Ed Bishop

    Ed Bishop Incredibly, I'm still here


    Indeed:
     

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  6. Craig

    Craig (unspecified) Staff

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    It's one of those super-short hits too. Just over a minute and a half if I remember correctly (without going and looking).........
     
  7. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    I stand corrected, gentlemen, I re-read Casino's post, and I misread it the first time.

    Hey, my wife just came in while I was listening to the other volume of Time-Life set. I sampled "Running Bear" and Mule Skinner Blues" for her, and when I put on "Shimmy, Shimmy Ko-Ko-Bop", she turned, and said this music was stupid as she closed the door. I guess I should have played "There's Something On Your Mind" too! I figured The "Mule-Skinner Blues" would've scared her off.
     
  8. Casino

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    Just as an aside, the 4 Seasons' 1964 version was pretty good - though IMO, Maurice's version is THE definitive one.
     
  9. motownboy

    motownboy Senior Member

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    This week in 1966 (from the Cash Box Singles Chart):

    1 WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL - New Vaudeville Band - Fontana 1562
    2 YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON - Supremes - Motown 1101
    3 GOOD VIBRATIONS - Beach Boys - Capitol 5676
    4 POOR SIDE OF TOWN - Johnny Rivers - Imperial 66205
    5 DEVIL WITH A BLUE DRESS ON & GOOD GOLLY
    MISS MOLLY - Mitch Ryder & Detroit Wheels- New Voice 817
    6 I’M YOUR PUPPET - James & Bobby Purify - Bell 648
    7 LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE - Monkees - Colgems 1001
    8 LADY GODIVA - Peter & Gordon - Capitol 5740
    9 (You And Me And) RAIN ON THE ROOF - Lovin’ Spoonful - Kama Sutra 216
    10 BORN FREE - Roger Williams - Kapp 767

    1966 was one of my favorite and most memorable music years. I was just seven years old and hot just gottem my first 45s that my parents bought me. I loved lsitening to the radio - WQAM 560 AM & WFUN 790 AM in Miami, FL.

    Well, of the top ten of this week back in 1966, I love 2,3,4,5,6 & 7....
    (I was too young to remember 1960!....)
     
  10. Casino

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    Much as I love the late 50/ early 60's stuff, and much as I like Little Anthony, I never DID like Shimmy, Shimmy myself... "Tears on My Pillow" and "Two Kinds of People," though - NOW we're talkin...
     
  11. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    Ummm, David, we're talking about 1960 this week...
     
  12. Casino

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    Yeah, motownboy, you're a little far afield from the 1960 chart...
     
  13. ZIPGUN99

    ZIPGUN99 Active Member

    After reading this, I got out the relic CD that's pictured in Ed's post, and gave it a listen. Blast from the past! Of course, this is all before my time, heh heh.

    About the time of this Top Ten List, Doo-Wop had been making somewhat of a comeback. Oldies compilation albums, like the "Oldies but Goodies" album had put the doo-wop era into focus for listeners (much like "Nuggets" would later do for garage-psych fans in the early seventies).

    From the liner notes of the Zodiacs' CD:

    "If you can recall, it was the early 60's and the music world was progressing via regression, recalling the music that was so big in 1956, and it was hitting the national charts again!
    That was the year that "In The Still Of The Nite," "Tonite, Tonite," "Honky Tonk," and "A Thousand Miles Away" made their comeback. Records that didn't make it the first time around, had a second chance. Tunes such as "Baby Oh Baby," "There's A Moon Out Tonight," and 'Rama Lama Ding Dong" hit the top of the charts. And "newcomers" like the Jive 5, the Miracles, Marcels, Crystals and Spinners kept the sound alive.

    "Comeback groups" from the mid 50's were evident, The Midnighters, the Cleftones, Shep & the Limelights, the Olympics and so many more. Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs were no exception. They had a solid 50's vocal style, updated the beat (just a little) and turned up some fine recordings in the early 60's for the Herald record people...

    Let's go back to 1955, when five young fellow, called the "Royal Charms" were attending the Barr Street High School in Lancaster, South Carolina. Their performances at talent shows, colleges and universities urged them on to Nashville, Tenn., and a recording contract with the Excello Record Corp. Their name was changed to the "Gladiolas" and four releases emerged.

    The biggest of which was their first, "Little Darlin," penned by lead singer Maurice Williams. It was a mild pop and R&B hit, until one of the most famous "cover" groups, the Diamonds released it as a joke, satirizing the incredible tenor voice of Mr. Williams. Unfortunately, the Diamonds cover version of "Little Darlin" is the version you may remember, but that wasn't going to stop the "Then Gladiolas."

    When their Excello contract ran out, they recorded four sides as the Zodiacs for "Cole" records, which established their style for the big move to Herald in September of 1960.

    ..."Stay" was number one record throughout November and December of 1960, followed by an amazing string of fine R&R and R&B records.

    ...give a listen to "I Remember" on this LP. I'm sure you will remember it, as it did pretty well in January and February of 1961.

    "Come Along' was released in April 1961, again with a good amount of radio airplay, followed by "Come and Get It," which I can still remember seeing "Maurice Williams" (without the Zodiacs) performing on American Bandstand.

    ...Another note of interest is that they not only sing, but they play their own musical instruments, and are performing today (and still sound great!!). If you are ever around the Carolinas check the newspapers, for the Zodiacs may not be far away."

    --Walter Devenne
     
  14. Alan

    Alan New Member

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    Yep, 1959-60 a different time and place. When Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash in early '59 the heart and soul of the first wave of R+R finally died. Wasn't till '62 that much started happening again. Even Elvis had lost his edge.

    Alan
     
  15. Casino

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    Yep. Rolling Stone called the "comeback" of the early 60's "neo-doowop." Actually, 1961 - 1963 produced some of the best doo-wop ever put to disc, with groups like the Earls, Marcels, Majors, and many others. But the true gems of that era are the very hard-to-get singles that never charted nationally. They're not well known, but they're great records.
     
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