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DOMINOES/RAVENS The Dominoes Meet The Ravens

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(1995/Sequel) 20 tracks - original Jubilee recordings feat. Jackie Wilson on lead for the... more

DOMINOES/RAVENS: The Dominoes Meet The Ravens

(1995/Sequel) 20 tracks - original Jubilee recordings feat. Jackie Wilson on lead for the Dominoes and the bass voice of  Jimmy Ricks with the Ravens. - few stock copies left!

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  • Interpret: DOMINOES/RAVENS

  • Album titlle: The Dominoes Meet The Ravens

  • Label CASTLE

  • Genre R&B, Soul

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 5023224071620

  • weight in Kg 0.107
Dominoes - Ravens - The Dominoes Meet The Ravens CD 1
01 Take Me Back To Heaven DOMINOES
02 Green Eyes RAVENS
03 On Chapel Hill RAVENS
04 Stop!...You're Sending Me DOMINOES
05 Happy Go Lucky Baby RAVENS
06 The Bells Of San Raquel RAVENS
07 We'll Raise A Ruckus Tonight RAVENS
08 Gimme, Gimme, Gimme DOMINOES
09 Rockin' At The Record Hop RAVENS
10 She's Fine, She's Mine RICKS, Jimmy & RICKATEERS
11 Take Me Back To Heaven (faster version) DOMINOES
12 Boots And Saddles RAVENS
13 Ashamed RAVENS
14 Come To Me Baby DOMINOES
15 The Same Sweet Wonderful One RICKS, Jimmy & RICKATEERS
16 Sweethearts On Parade DOMINOES
17 I'll Always Be In Love With You RAVENS
18 The Unbeliever RICKS, Jimmy & THE RICKATEERS
19 Take Me Back To Heaven DOMINOES
20 Bye Bye Baby Blues RAVENS
The Dominoes Have Mercy Baby (William Ward-Rose Marks) Federal 12068   With... more
"DOMINOES/RAVENS"

The Dominoes

Have Mercy Baby

(William Ward-Rose Marks)

Federal 12068

 

With the torrid rocker Have Mercy Baby, Clyde McPhatter unleashed every bit of gospel-derived vocal power he had at his command. Not only was it a smash for The Dominoes, sitting atop the R&B hit parade for longer than any other song of 1952, the track influenced countless young singers to come. Smokey Robinson was one.

"The first record I ever heard by them was a record called 'Have Mercy Baby.' I mean, I thought it was a woman singing the song! And I had one of these real high voices when I used to sing,” says Smokey. “Then I went to this theater in Detroit called the Broadway Capitol, and they were playing there. And I saw that it was Clyde McPhatter singing, man, and that really was inspirational to me, because I had a high voice, and the girls were going crazy over him. So Clyde McPhatter was probably like my first male idol as a singer."

Issued on Syd Nathan's Cincinnati-based Federal Records, Have Mercy Baby made it two years in a row that Billy Ward's Dominoes scored the year's biggest R&B vocal group record. The year before, it was their risqué Sixty-Minute Man with bass singer Bill Brown up front that enthralled young African-American record buyers (and more than a few white ones too; against all odds, the record charted sizably on the pop lists). But Have Mercy Baby, recorded January 28, 1952 in Cincy, was the one with the more lasting connotations, thanks to Clyde's visionary vocal. He's on fire, his fusillade of 'Yeahs!' during the wallpaper-peeling sax solo upping the excitement quotient all the more. Even before Ray Charles perfected his gospel/R&B synthesis, McPhatter was doing the same thing with The Dominoes.

Despite their mammoth success, 1952 was a year of upheaval for The Dominoes. Ward, the New York-based group's founder/pianist/composer, ran his group like a military squadron, with myriad rules and fines. Tenor Charlie White and then Brown bolted, both ending up with The Checkers. Larks bass David McNeil took Brown's place after James Van Loan, brother of The Ravens' Joe Van Loan, took over for White. But as long as Ward kept McPhatter happy, everything would be peachy. 

Bill Dahl

Various - Street Corner Symphonies Vol.04

1952 The Complete Story Of Doo Wop



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