The Olympics Doin'The Hully Gully - Dance By The Light - Party

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The Olympics: Doin'The Hully Gully - Dance By The Light - Party

(1991/Ace Records) 26 Songs

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Interpret: The Olympics
Album titlle: Doin'The Hully Gully - Dance By The Light - Party
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Ace Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0029667132428
weight in Kg 0.107

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