The Four Lads LP: Moments To Remember (LP)

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The Four Lads: Moments To Remember (LP)

(CBS) 12 Tracks - Columbia Records Collectors' Series - originally sealed copy!

Cut-Out LP

The group on this record is the original Toronto group: Bernie Toorist, lead tenor and arranger; Jimmy Arnold, second tenor; Frank Busseri, baritone, and Connie Codarini, bass. In 1951 they had reached the.point where it was just a matter of getting discovered. That task initially fell to Orlando Wilson of the Golden Gate Quartet. He heard the Lads in Canada and got the Golden Gate's management to arrange a booking in New York.

They were signed for two weeks in Le Ruben Blue and proceeded to stay for thirty. At this point enter Mitch Miller, who was then in the process of building Columbia Records into the country's number one pop label. Between 1950 and 1952 he helped bring the company from a poor fourth among the majors to undisputed leadership. Willing to try new things—but not too new—he had an eye for talent and an ear for the record as a medium. He was the right man in the right place at the right time. Particularly right for the Four Lads. Miller first heard them in Chicago playing at the Buttery of the Ambassador Hotel. "I wasn't after a Four Aces-type sound," he recalled recently. ''

They just sang good. I wanted them for the label." The Four Lads made their first appearance as back-up singers for Johnnie Ray on Little White Cloud that Cried. They also supported other Columbia stars such as Frankie Laine and Doris Day. But they soon broke through on their own. Two of their earlier hits are included here—Istanbul and Skokiaan. There was a trend toward foreign tunes that flourished in the early '50s. It included such ditties as Happy Wanderer and Answer Me My Love from Germany, Oh My Papa from Switzerland, and Bongo Bongo Bongo (I Don't Want to Leave the Congo), which tried to sound as if it was from Africa. But Skokiaan actually did—Northern Rhodesia to be exact. The "happy happy Africa" lyric, obviously not from Rhodesia, shows how far we've really come from the quaint innocence of 1954. The orchestra, by the way, is conducted by Neal Hefti. In 1955 Most Happy Fella by Frank Loesser came along and gave the Lads one of their biggest hits, Standing On The Corner. After the single record came out, the group went back into the st udio and put togetheran en-tire package of Loesser tunes.

The Four Lads remained with Columbia until 1960, and subsequently recorded for Kapp and United Artists. Long after the Aces, the Ames Brothers and other groups of the '50s broke up, the Lads continued to perform. Today they're still perform-ing. Of the original group, Busseri and Arnold are still members. Toorist and Condarini have been replaced by Johnny D'Arc and Aaron Bruce. Late in 1976 they recreated some of their biggest hits at Universal Studios in Chicago for the Fona Label. The Four Lads produced some of the most memorable tunes of the pre-Haley, pre-Presley '50s. Here are some of those tunes again, available in their original form for the first time in more than 10 years.

Article properties:The Four Lads: Moments To Remember (LP)

Interpret: The Four Lads
Album titlle: Moments To Remember (LP)
Genre Pop
Label CBS RECORDS
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 2500006500989
weight in Kg 0.3

Four Lads, The - Moments To Remember (LP) LP 1
01	Moments To Remember	The Four Lads
02	A House With Love In It	The Four Lads
03	Standing On The Corner	The Four Lads
04	On The Sunny Side Of The Street	The Four Lads
05	Bidin' My Time	The Four Lads
06	Skokiaan	The Four Lads
07	Why Should I Love You	The Four Lads
08	Cleo And Me-O	The Four Lads
09	The Mocking Bird	The Four Lads
10	I Want You To Stay	The Four Lads
11	Istanbul (Not Constantinople)	The Four Lads
12	Down By The Riverside	The Four Lads

The Four Lads From Toronto, Canada, schoolmates and members of St. Michael’s Choir School,... more

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"The Four Lads"

The Four Lads

From Toronto, Canada, schoolmates and members of St. Michael’s Choir School, Corrado “Connie” Codarini, bass; John Bernard “Bernie” Toorish, tenor; James F. “Jimmy”Arnold, lead; and Frank “Frankie” Busseri, baritone formed The Four Dukes, to sing pop, spirituals, and folk songs. Since a group from Detroit already called themselves The Four Dukes, the guys changed their name to The Four Lads. (Two other early members, Rudi Maugeri and John Perkins - with the group while they were still The Otnorots, Toronto spelled backward - had left to form The Crew Cuts of Sh-Boom fame.)

In 1950, the group started to sing in local clubs and soon became the talk of the town. An engagement in New York brought them to the notice of Mitch Miller, who hired The Four Lads to do backup vocals for several acts of his. Their first real success was behind Johnnie Ray on his major hit Cry b/w The Little White Cloud That Cried in 1951. Their own first gold record was Istanbul (Not Constantinople) in 1953. After that, The Four Lads were superstars, always remembered for their greatest hit, Moments to Remember, in 1955.

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