The Orlons The Best Of The Orlons - Cameo Parkway 1961-1966 (CD)

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(ABKCO) 20 Cameo Parkway masters 1961-66 (including the unreleased Doo Wop rehearsal 'Mr.21' - a... more

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The Orlons: The Best Of The Orlons - Cameo Parkway 1961-1966 (CD)

(ABKCO) 20 Cameo Parkway masters 1961-66 (including the unreleased Doo Wop rehearsal 'Mr.21' - a gem fom 1961 !) with 12 page booklet - Stereo

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Interpret: The Orlons
Album titlle: The Best Of The Orlons - Cameo Parkway 1961-1966 (CD)
Genre R&B, Soul
Label ABKCO
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0018771922728
weight in Kg 0.1

Orlons, The - The Best Of The Orlons - Cameo Parkway 1961-1966 (CD) CD 1
01	I'll Be True	The Orlons
02	The Wah-Watusi	The Orlons
03	Don't Hang Up	The Orlons
04	The Conservative	The Orlons
05	South Street	The Orlons
06	Cement Mixer	The Orlons
07	Not Me	The Orlons
08	Crossfire!	The Orlons
09	Don't Throw Your Love Away	The Orlons
10	Bon-doo-wah	The Orlons
11	Everything Nice	The Orlons
12	Shimmy Shimmy	The Orlons
13	Rules Of Love	The Orlons
14	Heartbreak Hotel	The Orlons
15	Knock! Knock! (Who's There?)	The Orlons
16	Goin' Places	The Orlons
17	Envy (In My Eyes)	The Orlons
18	Don't You Want My Lovin'	The Orlons
19	Spinning Top	The Orlons
20	Mr. Twenty One	The Orlons

The Orlons The Orlons Not Me Gary Anderson hit the jackpot in late 1960 with his... more

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The Orlons

Not Me

Gary Anderson hit the jackpot in late 1960 with his rowdy rocker New Orleans, billed as U.S. Bonds. Yet Not Me, his raucous encore for Frank Guida's Norfolk, Virginia-based Legrand Records, didn't crease the charts. It fell to Philadelphia's Orlons to make the song a #12 pop/#8 R&B hit in the summer of '63.

Its rocking groove had changed little. But sopranos Marlena Davis and Rosetta Hightower and alto Shirley Brickley didn't sound a bit like Bonds, and lone male Orlon Steve Caldwell leaped in with his trademark 'frog voice' at the end of every chorus. Cut in May of '63, it was paired with My Best Friend, penned by producers Dave Appell and Cameo Records co-owner Kal Mann. That same prolific duo also supplied The Orlons' top seller that year: South Street was a lively tribute to one of Philly's swingingest thoroughfares that made it to #3 pop a few months earlier.

The Orlons had exploded the year before on Cameo with the one-two punch of The Wah Watusi and Don't Hang Up, Hightower handling the leads. The quartet notched two more chart entries before the end of '63, the storming Crossfire! preceding the lesser seller Bon-Doo-Wah (tucked away on its B-side was the mellower Don't Throw Your Love Away, a British Invasion hit when covered the next year by The Searchers). Marlena left the group in October of '63 (Sandy Person was her first replacement). Though the Orlons nicked the charts three more times in '64, none cracked the Top 50 (the storming Shimmy Shimmy certainly deserved to). Caldwell was next to exit in November of '64, leaving The Orlons an all-female entity.

Wrapping up their Cameo stay with a handful of soul-oriented offerings in '65, The Orlons migrated to Calla for a single and ABC for two more. Rosetta left in 1967, moving to England and working as a background singer. Shirley and her sister Audrey kept The Orlons going until Shirley was shot to death by an intruder in her Philly residence on October 13, 1977. Lung cancer claimed Marlena on February 27, 1993; Audrey passed away on July 3, 2005.

Various - Street Corner Symphonies Vol.15, 1963 The Complete Story Of Doo Wop

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