The Olympics CD: Arvee Singles Plus (EU)

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(2005/ACROBAT) 27 tracks ARVEE 1959-61 with 12 page booklet The Coasters May Wear The Crown... more

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The Olympics: Arvee Singles Plus (EU)

(2005/ACROBAT) 27 tracks ARVEE 1959-61 with 12 page booklet The Coasters May Wear The Crown When It Comes To Mixing Comedy With Rock 'N' Roll. But They Weren't The First Group To Include An Element Of Social Satire In Their Recordings. Another West Coast Group Takes That Prize. The Olympics. Collected Here Are All Their Singles For The Arvee Label Plus All Their LP Only Tracks.

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Interpret: The Olympics
Album titlle: Arvee Singles Plus (EU)
Label ACROBAT
Genre R&B, Soul
Year of publication 2005
Artikelart CD
Label
EAN: 0824046405526
weight in Kg 0.1

Olympics, The - Arvee Singles Plus (EU) CD 1
01	(Baby) Hully Gully
02	Private Eye
03	Big Boy Pete
04	The Slop
05	I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
06	Workin' Hard
07	Dance By The Light Of The Moon
08	Dodge City
09	Little Pedro
10	Dooley
11	Stay Where You Are
12	Mash Them 'taters
13	The Stomp
14	Everybody Likes To Cha Cha Cha
15	The Twist
16	Baby It's Hot
17	The Scotch
18	What'd I Say
19	Boo Dee Green
20	Stay Away From Joe
21	Big Chief Little Puss
22	I'll Never Fall In Love
23	Hoochie Coochie Coo
24	Pony Time
25	Party Pooper
26	Madison Time
27	Save The Last Dance For Me

The Olympics Western Movies The Olympics Western Movies The Ward brothers... more

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"The Olympics"

The Olympics

Western Movies

The Olympics

Western Movies

The Ward brothers sang gospel back home in Mississippi, and continued to sing together after they arrived in Los Angeles in the early 1950s. Walter Ward attended Centennial High School in Compton alongside his cousin, Eddy Lewis, who was also from Mississippi. They added Charles Fizer and Walter Hammond, and began recording in 1956 for Melatone Records. Very quickly, they discovered that there was another group called the Challengers and so, in the year of the Olympic Games, they became the Olympics. In 1958, the truly ubiquitous Jesse Belvin introduced them to John Criner and his wife, R&B singer Effie Smith.

Criner became their manager, and got them on Si Aronson and Joe Greene's Demon label (distributed by Liberty). One of Demon’s A&R men was Effie Smith’s son, Fred, who had co-written a song with fellow Demon A&R man, Cliff Goldsmith. Their song, Western Movies, was much in the style of Leiber and Stoller and was, of course, about the vogue for TV westerns. The session was held in garage studio of jazz bassist Ted Brinson, who worked on the session together with Irving Ashby on guitar, and Effie Smith on piano. It became an R&B hit (#7), a pop hit (#8), and an overseas hit (#12 in England). There were changes in personnel and changes in labels, and along the way they recorded the original version of (Baby) Hully Gully, that inspired the Marathons’ hit Peanut Butter. Then they revived Don & Dewey’s Big Boy Pete, which is generally reckoned to be the inspiration for Jim Croce’s hit Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. There were more dance craze records, more novelties, and a few more hits.

There was also an unfortunate moment when the Olympics’ career bisected history-in-the-making. On the way to a rehearsal, Charles Fizer was shot to death during the Watts riots of 1965. They soldiered on, making records until 1973, and there’s still a group called the Olympics making personal appearances out there somewhere.

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