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The Cleftones: For Collectors Only (2-CD)

(1992/Collectables) 40 Songs

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Interpret: The Cleftones
Album titlle: For Collectors Only (2-CD)
Label Collectables
Genre R&B, Soul
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0090431880623
weight in Kg 0.11

Cleftones - For Collectors Only (2-CD) CD 1
01	Little Girl Of Mine	The Cleftones
02	Since We Fell In Love	The Cleftones
03	Neki Hokey	The Cleftones
04	Please Say You Want Me	The Cleftones
05	I Was Dreaming	The Cleftones
06	Honey Bun (unreleased)	The Cleftones
07	String Around My Heart	The Cleftones
08	She's Gone	The Cleftones
09	Can't We Be Sweethearts (alt. version)	The Cleftones
10	Shadows On The Very Last Row	The Cleftones
11	Heart And Soul	The Cleftones
12	She's So Fine	The Cleftones
13	Earth Angel	The Cleftones
14	Why You Do Me Like You Do	The Cleftones
15	You're Driving Me Mad	The Cleftones
16	Red Sails In The Sunset	The Cleftones
17	For Sentimental Reasons	The Cleftones
18	Slippin' And Slidin' (unreleased)	The Cleftones
19	How Do You Feel?	The Cleftones
20	Do You	The Cleftones
21	There She Goes	The Cleftones
22	10 Pairs Of Shoes	The Cleftones
23	You Baby You	The Cleftones
24	Lover Boy	The Cleftones
25	Cuzin' Casanova	The Cleftones
26	The Glory Of Love	The Cleftones
27	Just Like You And Me	The Cleftones
28	Trudy	The Cleftones
29	Time Is Running Out On Our Love	The Cleftones
30	Can't We Be Sweethearts	The Cleftones
31	Heavenly Father	The Cleftones
32	Happy Memories	The Cleftones
33	Beginners At Love	The Cleftones
34	Cool It Fool (unreleased)	The Cleftones
35	Again	The Cleftones
36	You And I Can Climb	The Cleftones
37	After The Dance	The Cleftones
38	Neki Hokey (alt. version)	The Cleftones
39	I Like Your Style Of Making Love	The Cleftones
40	See You Next Year	The Cleftones

The Cleftones Heart And Soul Things hadn't been going all that commercially well in... more

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"The Cleftones"

The Cleftones

Heart And Soul

Things hadn't been going all that commercially well in recent years for The Cleftones. When rock and roll burst on the scene, the Queens, New York-based quintet scored big on George Goldner's Gee label with their jumping You Baby You and Little Girl Of Mine (they're on our 1955 and '56 discs, respectively). Herb Cox's youthful leads, enthusiastic harmonies from his pals, and Jimmy Wright's psycho sax solos rendered The Cleftones' singles highly distinctive.

But since they'd moved over to Morris Levy's Roulette Records in the summer of '58, the group, down to four members (tenors Charles James and Berman Patterson and bass Warren Corbin with Cox), had been conspicuously absent from the airwaves. Their She's So Fine, Cuzin Casanova, and She's Gone didn't grab many listeners. Patterson split in late '59, replaced by former Rivileers lead singer Gene Pearson, just back from the Marines. Georgianna 'Pat' Spann followed him in, giving The Cleftones their first female member (shades of The Platters).

The new lineup benefitted from newly hired A&R man Henry Glover, who had produced countless R&B hits for King and Federal Records. The Cleftones veered into a new direction: Cox fronting old standards. First on the slate was Heart And Soul, created by Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser in 1938 (pop bandleader Larry Clinton had a #1 hit with the theme). The Cleftones gave the tune a breezy up-tempo reading that contemporized it, and being back on the Gee logo seemed to bring the group luck, even if Levy now owned the label. Heart And Soul proved a #18 pop hit in the spring of '61 (a group-generated How Do You Feel was the flip).

The Cleftones charted twice more in 1962 for Gee, both times reviving standards under Glover's supervision with Herb up front. They recut For Sentimental Reasons because they liked Sam Cooke's '57 hit version (The Brown Dots' 1945 original can be found on the first disc in this series), their remake going to #60 pop that fall. A remade Lover Come Back To Me finished their chart uptick at the end of '62. Pearson had left a few months earlier to join The Drifters (George Treadwell managed both groups). The Cleftones managed two more 45s for Levy's empire, but Cox kept them gigging in one form or another for several decades.

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