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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
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0824046405526
weight in Kg 0.1

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

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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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