Four Knights Jivin' & Smoothin' 1951-59 (2-CD)
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Four Knights: Jivin' & Smoothin' 1951-59 (2-CD)
Article properties:Four Knights: Jivin' & Smoothin' 1951-59 (2-CD)
Interpret: Four Knights
Album titlle: Jivin' & Smoothin' 1951-59 (2-CD)
Genre R&B, Soul
Label DESPO CD
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0095451346227
- weight in Kg 0.2
| Four Knights, The - Jivin' & Smoothin' 1951-59 (2-CD) CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | That's The Way It Gonna Be | Four Knights | ||
| 02 | Say No More | Four Knights | ||
| 03 | I Get So Lonely (When I Dream About You) | Four Knights | ||
| 04 | Period | Four Knights | ||
| 05 | Tennessee Train | Four Knights | ||
| 06 | Oh, Happy Days | Four Knights | ||
| 07 | The More I Go Out With Somebody Else | Four Knights | ||
| 08 | Charmaine | Four Knights | ||
| 09 | (It's No) Sin | Four Knights | ||
| 10 | Who Am I? | Four Knights | ||
| 11 | In The Chapel In The Moonlight | Four Knights | ||
| 12 | Anniversary Song | Four Knights | ||
| 13 | The Glory Of Love | Four Knights | ||
| 14 | Cry | Four Knights | ||
| 15 | I Wanna Say Hello | Four Knights | ||
| 16 | Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider | Four Knights | ||
| 17 | Sleepy Time Gal | Four Knights | ||
| 18 | Till Then | Four Knights | ||
| 19 | Sentimental Journey | Four Knights | ||
| 20 | Easy Street | Four Knights | ||
| 21 | When My Baby Smiles At Me | Four Knights | ||
| 22 | I Go Crazy | Four Knights | ||
| 23 | Oh, Miss Hannah | Four Knights | ||
| 24 | Walkin' In The Sunshine | Four Knights | ||
| 25 | Georgia On My Mind | Four Knights | ||
| 26 | I Ain't Get Nobody | Four Knights | ||
| 27 | One Way Kisses | Four Knights | ||
| 28 | Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue | Four Knights | ||
| Four Knights, The - Jivin' & Smoothin' 1951-59 (2-CD) CD 2 | ||||
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| 01 | Honey Bunch | Four Knights | ||
| 02 | Write Me Baby | Four Knights | ||
| 03 | Inside Out | Four Knights | ||
| 04 | Perdido | Four Knights | ||
| 05 | Baby Doll | Four Knights | ||
| 06 | I'm The World's Biggest Fool | Four Knights | ||
| 07 | Guilty | Four Knights | ||
| 08 | It's A Sin To Tell A Lie | Four Knights | ||
| 09 | I Couldn't Stay Away From You | Four Knights | ||
| 10 | Bottle Up The Moonlight | Four Knights | ||
| 11 | I Love That Song | Four Knights | ||
| 12 | Happy Birthday, Baby | Four Knights | ||
| 13 | Saw Your Eyes | Four Knights | ||
| 14 | Don't Depend On Me | Four Knights | ||
| 15 | Foolishly Yours | Four Knights | ||
| 16 | I Was Meant For You | Four Knights | ||
| 17 | I Love The Sunshine Of Your Smile | Four Knights | ||
| 18 | Walkin' And Whistlin' Blues | Four Knights | ||
| 19 | Got Her Off My Hands | Four Knights | ||
| 20 | Doo Wacka Dee | Four Knights | ||
| 21 | Win Of Lose | Four Knights | ||
| 22 | Sentimental Fool | Four Knights | ||
| 23 | O' Falling Star | Four Knights | ||
| 24 | Yes I Do (The Wedding Song) | Four Knights | ||
| 25 | When Your Loves Has Gone | Four Knights | ||
| 26 | The Four Minute Mile | Four Knights | ||
| 27 | Things To Do Today | Four Knights | ||
| 28 | Where Is The Love | Four Knights | ||
The Four Knights
The Four Knights
That's The Way It's Gonna Be
After spending most of their distinguished career as a pop-oriented outfit with plenty of network radio exposure but precious few hits until they signed with Capitol in 1951, The Four Knights temporarily veered into more an R&B direction the next year.
Like The Larks, the Knights originally hailed from North Carolina - Charlotte, in their case. Lead tenor Gene Alford, tenor/guitarist John Wallace, baritone Clarence Dixon, and bass Oscar Broadway were a spiritual aggregation, The Southland Jubilee Singers, before they changed their handle to The Four Knights and went secular in 1945. They signed with Decca the next year, later switching to the company's Coral subsidiary, but it wasn't until they switched to Capitol in '51 that the Knights began scoring hits on a somewhat consistent basis.
Howard Biggs and Joe Thomas were A&R men at RCA Victor, though their swinging composition That's The Way It's Gonna Be found its way to the Knights at Capitol, which released the single in August of 1952 with the frantic Say No More on the flip. The single didn't make the same pop splash that their I Love The Sunshine Of Your Smile had the year before - maybe it was too R&B-oriented for their longtime audience, with a booting two-chorus sax solo - but it's one of their most exciting discs.
The shift didn't hold long. I Get So Lonely (When I Dream About You), the Knights' biggest seller of all in 1954, sailed to #2 in the U.S. and #5 over in Great Britain but returned the Knights to the pop milieu, though it did ride a bouncy, infectious tempo. Alford was permanently sidelined by epilepsy in the mid-'50s, the Knights soldiering on with George Vereen and then Clinton Holland taking his place. They pulled double duty at Capitol for a time, harmonizing with Nat 'King' Cole on the 1956 hit That's All There Is To That and the next year's My Personal Possession as in addition to waxing their own singles. The quartet managed a last pop hit for Coral in 1959, O' Falling Star, making it into the mid-'60s before calling it quits.
Bill Dahl
Various - Street Corner Symphonies Vol.04
1952 The Complete Story Of Doo Wop
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