The Dells On Their Corner - The Very Best Of The Dells (CD)
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The Dells: On Their Corner - The Very Best Of The Dells (CD)
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| Dells, The - On Their Corner - The Very Best Of The Dells (CD) CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Oh What A Night | The Dells | ||
| 02 | Wear It On Our Face | The Dells | ||
| 03 | Love Is So Simple | The Dells | ||
| 04 | I Can Sing A Rainbow /Love Is Blue | The Dells | ||
| 05 | O-O I Love You | The Dells | ||
| 06 | There Is | The Dells | ||
| 07 | Nadine | The Dells | ||
| 08 | The Love We Had | The Dells | ||
| 09 | Run For Cover | The Dells | ||
| 10 | Stay In My Corner | The Dells | ||
| 11 | Give Your Baby A Standing Ovation | The Dells | ||
| 12 | Always Together | The Dells | ||
| 13 | Open Up My Heart | The Dells | ||
| 14 | I Miss You | The Dells | ||
| 15 | Since I Found You | The Dells | ||
| 16 | My Pretending Days Are Over | The Dells | ||
| 17 | Learning To Love You Was Easy | The Dells | ||
| 18 | I Wish It Was Me You Loved | The Dells | ||
The Dells
Dry Your Eyes
The charts didn't reflect it yet, but The Dells would reign as one of Chicago's top R&B vocal groups for several decades to come. Hailing from south suburban Harvey, Illinois, the quintet had only tallied one national hit for Vee-Jay Records, the scrumptious ballad Oh, What A Nite (it's on our 1956 volume), but that didn't reflect the sky-high quality of their Vee-Jay catalog.
The group boasted two exceptional leads; tenor Johnny Funches handled ballads with an airy, floating beauty, while melismatic baritone Marvin Junior punched the up-tempo stuff home with gruff intensity. Tenors Verne Allison and Mickey McGill and bass Chuck Barksdale completed the lineup.
Cut April 18, 1958, the delicate Funches-led ballad Dry Your Eyes, an Allison composition, was another Dells gem, though they didn't technically exist when Vee-Jay finally got around to pressing it up in September of '59 with a jumping Junior-led Baby, Open Up Your Heart that McGill wrote on the other side. The group had been involved in a late '58 auto accident on the Ohio Turnpike; McGill's leg was broken in three places, leading him to abandon the road. Allison went to New York; Barksdale joined Harvey Fuqua's new Moonglows with Marvin Gaye, and Junior and Funches toiled at a local steel mill. Happily, The Dells regrouped in 1960 apart from Johnny, who retired from singing for good. They found a sterling replacement: ex-Flamingos first tenor Johnny Carter, who gave the quintet a new falsetto top end. Junior emerged as the quintet's powerhouse principal front man.
Stylistically, The Dells progressed with Carter in the ranks. They got into modern harmony, singing jazz and backing no less than Dinah Washington on a couple of her '61 Mercury sessions. After a brief 1960 return to Vee-Jay, the group jumped over to Chess' Argo subsidiary and continued working toward a longterm bout with stardom that would finally ignite in the latter half of the '60s.
- Bill Dahl -
Various Street Corner Symphonies 1959 Vol.11
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