The Four Tunes Complete Jubilee Sessions (2-CD)

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The Four Tunes: Complete Jubilee Sessions (2-CD)

(Sequel) 47 tracks (13 unreleased) 1953-62 with 8 page notes and session info by Peter Grendysa.
Original stock copies of this long time deleted Doo Wop gem!*****

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Interpret: The Four Tunes
Album titlle: Complete Jubilee Sessions (2-CD)
Label CASTLE
Genre R&B, Soul
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5023224222923
weight in Kg 0.12

Four Tunes, The - Complete Jubilee Sessions (2-CD) CD 1
01	Marie	The Four Tunes
02	I Gambled With Love	The Four Tunes
03	I Understand	The Four Tunes
04	Sugar Lump	The Four Tunes
05	My Wild Irish Rose	The Four Tunes
06	Do Do Do It Again	The Four Tunes
07	The Greatest Feeling In The World	The Four Tunes
08	Lonesome	The Four Tunes
09	L'Amour Toujours L'Amour	The Four Tunes
10	Don't Cry Darling	The Four Tunes
11	Dancing With Tears In My Eyes	The Four Tunes
12	Far Away Places	The Four Tunes
13	Let Me Go Lover	The Four Tunes
14	I Sold My Heart To The Junkman	The Four Tunes
15	Good News (Chariot's Comin')	The Four Tunes
16	You Are My Love	The Four Tunes
17	At The Steamboat River Ball	The Four Tunes
18	A Yellow Moon Sailing By	The Four Tunes
19	I Hope	The Four Tunes
20	I Close My Eyes	The Four Tunes
21	Time Out For Tears	The Four Tunes
22	Tired Of Waitin'	The Four Tunes
23	Brooklyn Bridge	The Four Tunes
24	Three Little Chickens	The Four Tunes

Four Tunes, The - Complete Jubilee Sessions (2-CD) CD 2
01	Rock And Roll Call	The Four Tunes
02	Our Love	The Four Tunes
03	I Gotta Go	The Four Tunes
04	Hold Me Closer	The Four Tunes
05	Lonesome For You	The Four Tunes
06	Rock And Egg Roll	The Four Tunes
07	I Cried	The Four Tunes
08	Help Me	The Four Tunes
09	Rose Marie	The Four Tunes
10	Marquita	The Four Tunes
11	A Little On The Lonely Side	The Four Tunes
12	I'll Try	The Four Tunes
13	Cool Water	The Four Tunes
14	Ballad Of James Dean	The Four Tunes
15	Sayonara	The Four Tunes
16	Love Is Calling	The Four Tunes
17	You Don't Love Me No More	The Four Tunes
18	Come To Me	The Four Tunes
19	All Torn Up (previously unreleased demo)	The Four Tunes
20	I Want My Baby To Come Home (prev.unr.demo)	The Four Tunes
21	True Love (previously unreleased demo)	The Four Tunes
22	You're An Angel (prev. unreleased demo)	The Four Tunes
23	Sometime, Sometime (unfinished demo)	The Four Tunes

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"The Four Tunes"

The Four Tunes

The Four Tunes with Sid Bass Orch.

Marie

Ending their major label affiliation with RCA Victor rejuvenated The Four Tunes as hitmakers. Jerry Blaine's Jubilee Records was in the process of revitalizing the chart fortunes of their flagship group, The Orioles, with Crying In the Chapel (see Track Two), and Jubilee found the right formula to accomplish the same thing with their new acquisition.

Little else had changed for the quartet, which had settled into a rewarding itinerary of bookings at top clubs up and down the Eastern seaboard as well as further afield. The group had moved over to RCA in 1949 after making their mark with Deek Watson as The Brown Dots, then on their own at Manor Records as The Sentimentalists and from 1947 as The Four Tunes. There hadn't been any personnel changes along the way; tenors Jimmie Nabbie and Danny Owens, baritone/guitarist Pat Best, and bass Jimmy Gordon had been together since the mid-'40s, their impeccably honed sound slowly fading from prominence.

Jubilee found a way to make them relevant again. Marie, their first single for their new label (cut September 11, 1953), would seem an odd choice for a career resurgence. Written by Tin Pan Alley immortal Irving Berlin, it had been a 1929 hit for Rudy Vallee and crashed the pop charts again in '37 via Tommy Dorsey's revival. Arranger Sid Bass souped up the Tunes' rendition, taken at a breakneck pace with Nabbie leading his pals through some wild vocal gymnastics that grabbed enough R&B coin to earn a #2 showing on 'Billboard's 'Juke Box' listings late in the year and sent it to #13 pop as well (the flip I Gambled With Love was straight pop).

Decca tried to counter by digging out vintage versions of Marie by The Mills Brothers and Louis Armstrong, but the gambit didn't slow the Tunes' singular treatment down. Its enduring appeal was illustrated when a similar rendition by an Irish group, The Bachelors, was a pop hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1965.

That comeback hit wasn't a fluke. The Tunes did even better the next year with the pure pop ballad I Understand Just How You Feel (written and fronted by Best), soaring to #6 pop and #7 R&B. They stuck around Jubilee into 1957, keeping their releases primarily pop-oriented, without scoring a third smash. By then, they were a Las Vegas institution (Best and Gordon kept the act going until the late '90s).

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