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(ACE Records) 28 Tracks - 12 page booklet -  All 28 Federal recordings –... more

The Lamplighters: Loving, Rocking, Thrilling - The Complete Federal Recordings (CD)

(ACE Records) 28 Tracks - 12 page booklet - 

All 28 Federal recordings – remastered  from the original tapes – by the group that went on to become  both The Sharps and The Rivingtons. Lead vocals mostly by the late Thurston Harris.

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  • Interpret: The Lamplighters

  • Album titlle: Loving, Rocking, Thrilling - The Complete Federal Recordings (CD)

  • Genre Doo-Wop

  • Label Ace Records

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0029667008129

  • weight in Kg 0.1
Lamplighters, The - Loving, Rocking, Thrilling - The Complete Federal Recordings (CD) CD 1
01 I Used To Cry Mercy, Mercy The Lamplighters
02 Sad And Lonely The Lamplighters
03 Love, Rock And Thrill The Lamplighters
04 Be-Bop Wino The Lamplighters
05 Part Of Me The Lamplighters
06 Turn Me Loose The Lamplighters
07 Give Me The Lamplighters
08 Crazy Times The Lamplighters
09 I Can't Stand It The Lamplighters
10 Smoochie The Lamplighters
11 Tell Me You Care The Lamplighters
12 Ride, Jockey, Ride The Lamplighters
13 Hug A Little, Kiss A Little The Lamplighters
14 Tell It To Me The Lamplighters
15 Five Minutes Longer The Lamplighters
16 You Hear The Lamplighters
17 Salty Dog The Lamplighters
18 Don't Make It So Good The Lamplighters
19 Bo Beep (vers. 2) The Lamplighters
20 Yum Yum The Lamplighters
21 You Were Sent Down From Heaven The Lamplighters
22 Goody Good Things The Lamplighters
23 It Ain't Right The Lamplighters
24 Everything's All Right The Lamplighters
25 I Wanna Know The Lamplighters
26 Believe Me The Lamplighters
27 Roll On The Lamplighters
28 Bo Beep (vers. 1) The Lamplighters
The Lamplighters I Used To Cry Mercy, Mercy There wasn't anything overly polished about... more
"The Lamplighters"

The Lamplighters

I Used To Cry Mercy, Mercy

There wasn't anything overly polished about The Lamplighters. The L.A. quartet did their share of ballads, but rockers were their forte.

Like so many Los Angeles R&B tales, their saga began at the Barrelhouse, the Watts nightspot operated by Johnny Otis and Bardu Ali. Tenors Leon Hughes and Willie Ray Rockwell had put in time with The Hollywood Four Flames before teaming with bass Matthew Nelson to form a trio in 1951. They lost a Barrelhouse talent contest to tenor Thurston Harris, born July 11, 1930 (or 1931) in Indianapolis, Indiana, who brought the house down singing The '5' Royales' Help Me Somebody. Instead of licking their wounds, they brought ex-gospel singer Harris into the fold and started gigging as a quartet.

Hughes had been supplanted by Al Frazier prior to the group signing a pact with Federal Records. A&R man Ralph Bass brought them into Hollywood's Radio Recorders in the summer of '53 to cut their debut single, Turn Me Loose. Someone at Federal's parent label, King Records, named the group The Lamplighters.  Lead tenor Harris often displayed a Clyde McPhatter influence on their lengthy string of Federal releases, though Rockwell wrote and fronted their encore Be-Bop Wino.

Thurston sang lead on Smootchie as well as their fourth Federal outing in March of '54, the rollicking I Used To Cry Mercy, Mercy, written by the prolific Rudolph Toombs (his name appears throughout this series). The hard-charging jump had strong gospel overtones, Harris belting with intensity before a moaning sax jumps in for a bluesy ride. The group's labelmates, The Midnighters, worked this stylistic side of the street too, and they got a lot more attention. The quartet did a fine ballad on the B-side, Tell Me You Care, that Harris penned.

The Lamplighters made more solid jumps - Ride Jockey Ride, Five Minutes Longer, Goody Good Things, I Wanna Know, Love, Rock And Thrill - that brought them into 1955, though personnel changes removed Rockwell and Nelson. Harris quit for a time too. Frazier put together a new lineup and cut for Federal as The Tenderfoots. Thurston returned and The Lamplighters were revived to cut Don't Make It So Good, a frantic Bo Peep, and Everything's All Right before Harris split for good in 1956. Frazier and two replacement Lamplighters, Carl White and John 'Sonny' Harris, added bass Rocky Wilson, Jr. and formed The Sharps, who did the yelps on a lot of Duane Eddy hits when they weren't cutting sides themselves for Jamie, Chess and Combo. They later morphed into The Rivingtons.

Thurston got off to a grand start as a solo act at Aladdin Records, covering Bobby Day and The Satellites' Little Bitty Pretty One and greatly outselling the original in late '57 (The Sharps backed him). Harris scored '58 hits with the rocking Do What You Did and another bouncy Day cover, Over And Over. He died of a heart attack on April 14, 1990. 

- Bill Dahl -

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