The Fiestas The Oh So Fine Fiestas (CD)
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- weight in Kg 0.107
The Fiestas: The Oh So Fine Fiestas (CD)
Leaning more to the soul (rather than doowop) side of Black Music, The Fiestas career spanned nearly 20 years. This CD expands on the old Ace LP (CH 173) and includes their biggest hit So Fine (which reached No 11 on Billboard's Hot 100) plus 28 other great sides. So Fine hit No 3 on the R&B chart and then crossed to the Billboard Hot 100 tin 1959, the year following the birth of the soul movement (when hits like Jerry Butler & The Impressions, Jackie Wilson, The Falcons, Marv Johnson and The Drifters all burst on to the Black Music scene).
The Fiestas hailed from Newark, New Jersey and signed to Old Town after Hy Weiss heard them "singing in the toilet next to my office. I heard them and came out of my office and that??s how I go that group. It cost me $40 to record So Fine, that's all". Many of the tracks here are presented in stereo for the first time - You Could Be My Girlfriend is in the original 2-track stereo mix. The music captures the changes going on in Black Music at the time and there are echoes of Sam Cooke, The Coasters and Jackie Wilson, though these are more to do with choice of material than the band's sound. Think Smart (the flip of their cover of Arthur Alexander's Anna), incidentally, is now a much-coveted Northern Soul rarity.
Article properties:The Fiestas: The Oh So Fine Fiestas (CD)
Interpret: The Fiestas
Album titlle: The Oh So Fine Fiestas (CD)
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Ace Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0029667138222
- weight in Kg 0.107
| Fiestas, The - The Oh So Fine Fiestas (CD) CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | So Fine | The Fiestas | ||
| 02 | Last Night I Dreamed | The Fiestas | ||
| 03 | Things We Can't Forget | The Fiestas | ||
| 04 | Our Anniversary | The Fiestas | ||
| 05 | I'm Your Slave | The Fiestas | ||
| 06 | Come On And Love Me | The Fiestas | ||
| 07 | Good News | The Fiestas | ||
| 08 | That Was Me | The Fiestas | ||
| 09 | Dollar Bill | The Fiestas | ||
| 10 | It Don't Make Sense | The Fiestas | ||
| 11 | You Could Be My Girlfriend | The Fiestas | ||
| 12 | So Nice | The Fiestas | ||
| 13 | Look At That Girl | The Fiestas | ||
| 14 | Mr. Dillon, Mr. Dillon | The Fiestas | ||
| 15 | The Hobo's Prayer | The Fiestas | ||
| 16 | The Lawman | The Fiestas | ||
| 17 | Broken Heart | The Fiestas | ||
| 18 | The Railroad Song | The Fiestas | ||
| 19 | I Feel Good All Over | The Fiestas | ||
| 20 | The Gypsy Said | The Fiestas | ||
| 21 | The Party's Over | The Fiestas | ||
| 22 | Try It One More Time | The Fiestas | ||
| 23 | Foolish Dreamer | The Fiestas | ||
| 24 | Rock-A-By Baby Don't Cry No More | The Fiestas | ||
| 25 | All That's Good | The Fiestas | ||
| 26 | Anna | The Fiestas | ||
| 27 | Think Smart | The Fiestas | ||
| 28 | Love Is Good To Me | The Fiestas | ||
| 29 | I Gotta Have Your Lovin' | The Fiestas | ||
The Fiestas
Dollar Bill
A group that supplied its own material was worth a lot to record labels, who tended to think of artists as disposable commodities. So it was with The Fiestas.
That wasn't the case with So Fine, their biggest hit. The Fiestas had picked that one up off an obscure 1955 platter by The Sheiks, a Johnny Otis-related group on the West Coast. As The Fiestas' debut outing on Hy and Sam Weiss' New York-based Old Town Records, the rumbling So Fine proved a major hit (it's on our '58 edition of 'Street Corner Symphonies'). Hy discovered lead singer Tommy Bullock, tenor Eddie Morris, baritone Sam Ingalls, and bass Preston Lane rehearsing in the bathroom of the Tribeca Theater in Harlem - quite a nice accidental discovery.
Crafting a followup with the same chart impact was considerably tougher, but Weiss and The Fiestas kept trying. The group-generated Dollar Bill was a fine attempt, its back alley groove and the impassioned high tenor lead imparting a bluesy edge to the proceedings. Cut August 21, 1959, it didn't come out until the spring of '60 with It Don't Make Sense on the other side. Its writer Randy Stewart eventually joined The Fiestas as they delved into more of a soul direction at Old Town (they were there through 1965). Only Broken Heart made a chart impact for the group, climbing to #18 R&B and #81 pop in 1962.
Bullock split for Detroit in 1966 to record with producer Gene Redd (he'd co-written Broken Heart for The Fiestas) in a duo with Cleveland Horne as Tommy & Cleve (their Boo-Ga-Loo Baby ended up on Checker). Morris was reportedly the only original member left in The Fiestas by 1975, when the group reemerged to record for the Stax subsidiary Respect with Stewart co-producing. A '77 foray into disco for Chimneyville with Randy again at the helm completed their discography.
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