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(2012/JASMINE) 41 tracks more

The Cleftones: Happy Memories (2-CD)

(2012/JASMINE) 41 tracks

Article properties: The Cleftones: Happy Memories (2-CD)

  • Interpret: The Cleftones

  • Album titlle: Happy Memories (2-CD)

  • Label JASMINE

  • Preiscode JAS
  • Genre R&B, Soul

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0604988020724

  • weight in Kg 0.12
Cleftones - Happy Memories (2-CD) CD 1
01 Heart And Soul The Cleftones
02 How Do You Feel The Cleftones
03 A Hundred Pounds Of Clay The Cleftones
04 Please Say You Want Me The Cleftones
05 Can't We Be Sweethearts The Cleftones
06 Time Is Running Out On Our Love The Cleftones
07 Little Girl Of Mine The Cleftones
08 Heavenly Father The Cleftones
09 Glory Of Love The Cleftones
10 You And I Can Climb The Cleftones
11 You Baby You The Cleftones
12 String Around My Heart The Cleftones
13 For Sentimental Reasons The Cleftones
14 Blues In The Night The Cleftones
15 Red Sails In The Sunset The Cleftones
16 She's Gone The Cleftones
17 Vacation In The Mountains The Cleftones
18 My Babe The Cleftones
19 Earth Angel The Cleftones
20 Deed I Do The Cleftones
21 Shadows On The Very Last Row The Cleftones
22 What Did I Do That Was Wrong The Cleftones
23 Hey Babe The Cleftones
24 Leave My Woman Alone The Cleftones
Cleftones - Happy Memories (2-CD) CD 2
01 I Was Dreaming The Cleftones
02 You're Driving Me Mad The Cleftones
03 Neki Hoeky The Cleftones
04 Happy Memories The Cleftones
05 I Like Your Style Of Making Love The Cleftones
06 Why Do You Do Me Like You Do The Cleftones
07 See You Next Year The Cleftones
08 Ten Pairs Of Shoes The Cleftones
09 Lover Boy The Cleftones
10 Beginners At Love The Cleftones
11 Trudy The Cleftones
12 She's So Fine The Cleftones
13 Mish Mash Baby The Cleftones
14 Cuzin Casanova The Cleftones
15 Since We Fell In Love The Cleftones
16 Again The Cleftones
17 Do You The Cleftones
The Cleftones Heart And Soul Things hadn't been going all that commercially well in... more
"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.

Various Street Corner Symphonies 1961 Vol.13

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Tracklist
Cleftones - Happy Memories (2-CD) CD 1
01 Heart And Soul
02 How Do You Feel
03 A Hundred Pounds Of Clay
04 Please Say You Want Me
05 Can't We Be Sweethearts
06 Time Is Running Out On Our Love
07 Little Girl Of Mine
08 Heavenly Father
09 Glory Of Love
10 You And I Can Climb
11 You Baby You
12 String Around My Heart
13 For Sentimental Reasons
14 Blues In The Night
15 Red Sails In The Sunset
16 She's Gone
17 Vacation In The Mountains
18 My Babe
19 Earth Angel
20 Deed I Do
21 Shadows On The Very Last Row
22 What Did I Do That Was Wrong
23 Hey Babe
24 Leave My Woman Alone
Cleftones - Happy Memories (2-CD) CD 2
01 I Was Dreaming
02 You're Driving Me Mad
03 Neki Hoeky
04 Happy Memories
05 I Like Your Style Of Making Love
06 Why Do You Do Me Like You Do
07 See You Next Year
08 Ten Pairs Of Shoes
09 Lover Boy
10 Beginners At Love
11 Trudy
12 She's So Fine
13 Mish Mash Baby
14 Cuzin Casanova
15 Since We Fell In Love
16 Again
17 Do You