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SOLITAIRES: Walking Along - The Best Of (2-CD)

(2011/JASMINE) 40 tracks 1954-60

Article properties: SOLITAIRES: Walking Along - The Best Of (2-CD)

  • Interpret: SOLITAIRES

  • Album titlle: Walking Along - The Best Of (2-CD)

  • Label JASMINE

  • Preiscode JAS
  • Genre R&B, Soul

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0604988018028

  • weight in Kg 0.12
Solitaires, The - Walking Along - The Best Of (2-CD) CD 1
01 Wonder Why SOLITAIRES
02 Blue Valentine SOLITAIRES
03 You're Laughing Cause I'm Crying SOLITAIRES
04 Stranger In Paradise SOLITAIRES
05 Chapel Of St. Clair SOLITAIRES
06 Please Remember My Heart SOLITAIRES
07 South Of The Border SOLITAIRES
08 Chances I've Taken SOLITAIRES
09 Lonely SOLITAIRES
10 I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance SOLITAIRES
11 Girl Of Mine SOLITAIRES
12 What Did She Say SOLITAIRES
13 My Dear SOLITAIRES
14 The Wedding SOLITAIRES
15 Don't Fall In Love SOLITAIRES
16 Magic Rose SOLITAIRES
17 Later For You Baby SOLITAIRES
18 The Honeymoon SOLITAIRES
19 Fine Little Girl SOLITAIRES
20 Silent Grief SOLITAIRES
Solitaires, The - Walking Along - The Best Of (2-CD) CD 2
01 You've Sinned SOLITAIRES
02 The Angels Sang SOLITAIRES
03 Give Me One More Chance SOLITAIRES
04 Nothing Like A Little Love SOLITAIRES
05 Walking Alone SOLITAIRES
06 Please Kiss This Letter SOLITAIRES
07 How Long SOLITAIRES
08 Come Back My Love SOLITAIRES
09 I Really Love You So (Honey Babe) SOLITAIRES
10 Thrill Of Love SOLITAIRES
11 Walkin' And Talkin' SOLITAIRES
12 No More Sorrow SOLITAIRES
13 At Night SOLITAIRES
14 Big Mary's House SOLITAIRES
15 Embraceable You SOLITAIRES
16 Round Goes My Heart SOLITAIRES
17 Helpless SOLITAIRES
18 Light A Candle In The Chapel SOLITAIRES
19 Lonesome Lover SOLITAIRES
20 Pretty Thing SOLITAIRES
The Solitaires Walking Along When we last checked in with The Solitaires on our 1954... more
"SOLITAIRES"

The Solitaires

Walking Along

When we last checked in with The Solitaires on our 1954 collection, they were a promising young Harlem group newly signed to Hy Weiss' fledgling New York-based Old Town Records. Their first Old Town platter, pairing Wonder Why and Blue Valentine, was followed by Please Remember My Heart, I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance, and a stately The Wedding, establishing the quintet as the label's flagship group. Ballads were their unabashed specialty.

Lead tenor Herman Curtis (aka Herman Dunham, formerly with The Vocaleers), had been drafted in 1955. He was replaced by former Concords lead Milton Love, born July 8, 1937 in Chatham County, North Carolina. Otherwise the lineup was similar to the group that signed with Old Town: tenor Winston 'Buzzy' Willis, second tenor/baritone Bobby Baylor, bass Pat Gaston, and former Mello-Mood Monteith 'Monte' Owens on tenor and guitar. All five penned the relentless Walking Along, an untypical up-tempo release cut on October 10, 1956 and issued on Old Town in January of '57. Love fronted the number, powered by a foot-stomping beat. Gaston had joined the Air Force, so Freddy Barksdale took over on bass.

Although Walking Along didn't chart nationally (the Curtis-led ballad Please Kiss This Letter , cut back in January when he was still with the group, adorned the flip), it stirred up plenty of dust on the East Coast. In the autumn of '58, those cover-obsessed Canadians, The Diamonds, got around to covering Walking Along and enjoyed a #29 pop seller. That was enough to interest Leonard Chess in picking The Solitaires' original version up for convenient comparison on his Argo subsidiary. 

The Solitaires continued to record into 1960. I Really Love You So, their followup to Walking Along, was another bubbly rocker with Curtis back in harness, though Willis and Baylor were drafted the year before (two ex-Fi-Tones, Reggie Barnes and Cecil Holmes, were their replacements). Love spent 1961-63 in the Army. Their fans never suspected that The Solitaires weren't recording for Old Town anymore as Weiss released product on the group into 1963. Love and Willis were back for '64 one-offs on MGM and Roulette, the latter as by The Chances.

Willis later landed front-office positions in the R&B divisions of RCA (where he supervised the production of The Main Ingredient's '72 gold record Everybody Plays The Fool) and Polydor. Holmes worked as a promo man for Buddah before joining Neil Bogart as one of the owners of disco-dominated Casablanca Records. Baylor died of pneumonia in January of '89.

- Bill Dahl -

Various Street - Corner Symphonies 1957 Vol.9

Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/various-street-corner-symphonies-1957-vol.9.html
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Tracklist
Solitaires, The - Walking Along - The Best Of (2-CD) CD 1
01 Wonder Why
02 Blue Valentine
03 You're Laughing Cause I'm Crying
04 Stranger In Paradise
05 Chapel Of St. Clair
06 Please Remember My Heart
07 South Of The Border
08 Chances I've Taken
09 Lonely
10 I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance
11 Girl Of Mine
12 What Did She Say
13 My Dear
14 The Wedding
15 Don't Fall In Love
16 Magic Rose
17 Later For You Baby
18 The Honeymoon
19 Fine Little Girl
20 Silent Grief
Solitaires, The - Walking Along - The Best Of (2-CD) CD 2
01 You've Sinned
02 The Angels Sang
03 Give Me One More Chance
04 Nothing Like A Little Love
05 Walking Alone
06 Please Kiss This Letter
07 How Long
08 Come Back My Love
09 I Really Love You So (Honey Babe)
10 Thrill Of Love
11 Walkin' And Talkin'
12 No More Sorrow
13 At Night
14 Big Mary's House
15 Embraceable You
16 Round Goes My Heart
17 Helpless
18 Light A Candle In The Chapel
19 Lonesome Lover
20 Pretty Thing