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(2010/ACE) 24 tracks - Cameo Parkway's top girl group the Orlons with their 1962 debut album 'The... more

The Orlons: The Wah-Watusi - South Street

(2010/ACE) 24 tracks - Cameo Parkway's top girl group the Orlons with their 1962 debut album 'The Wah-Watusi' and 1963's 'South Street'.

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  • Interpret: The Orlons

  • Album titlle: The Wah-Watusi - South Street

  • Genre R&B, Soul

  • Label Ace Records

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0029667042222

  • weight in Kg 0.1
Orlons, The - The Wah-Watusi - South Street CD 1
01 Dedicated To The One You Love The Orlons
02 Tonight The Orlons
03 Mashed Patato Time The Orlons
04 The Plea The Orlons
05 Gravy (For My Mashed Patatoes) The Orlons
06 I'll Be True The Orlons
07 The Wah-Watusi The Orlons
08 He's Gone The Orlons
09 Let Me In The Orlons
10 Over The Mountain, Across The Sea The Orlons
11 I Met Him On A Sunday The Orlons
12 Mr.Twenty One (Happy Birthday) The Orlons
13 Walk Right In The Orlons
14 Big Daddy The Orlons
15 Cement Mixer The Orlons
16 Mister Sandman The Orlons
17 Charlie Brown The Orlons
18 Gather 'Round The Orlons
19 South Street The Orlons
20 Between 18th & 19th On Chestnut Street The Orlons
21 Don't Let Go The Orlons
22 Muskrat Ramble The Orlons
23 Pokey Lou The Orlons
24 We Got Love The Orlons
The Orlons The Orlons Not Me Gary Anderson hit the jackpot in late 1960 with his... more
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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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