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Maurice Williams & The Zodiac: At The Beach (CD)

(1995/Night Train) 12 tracks (39:07/12) Ehedem populäre Soul- und Danceformation - live / one the popular '60s soul craze band, recorded live: In Crowd, Stubborn Kind Of Fellow, Something You Got, Stay, Soldier Boy, etc.

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Williams, Maurice & The Zodiac - At The Beach (CD) CD 1
01 In Crowd Maurice Williams & The Zodiac
02 Stubborn Kind Of Fellow Maurice Williams & The Zodiac
03 Something You Got Maurice Williams & The Zodiac
04 Stay Maurice Williams & The Zodiac
05 Soldier Boy Maurice Williams & The Zodiac
06 Lollipop Maurice Williams & The Zodiac
07 Twist & Shout Maurice Williams & The Zodiac
08 It'S Not Unusual Maurice Williams & The Zodiac
09 You've Lost That Loving Feeling Maurice Williams & The Zodiac
10 Sherry Maurice Williams & The Zodiac
11 Every Beat Of My Heart Maurice Williams & The Zodiac
12 If I Had A Hammer Maurice Williams & The Zodiac
Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs Stay Having scored a 1957 hit with the clattering,... more
"Maurice Williams & The Zodiac"

Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs

Stay

Having scored a 1957 hit with the clattering, Latin-tempoed Little Darlin' while fronting his first group, The Gladiolas (it's on that year's edition of 'Street Corner Symphonies') on Ernie Young's Nashville-based Excello Records, Lancaster, South Carolina-born Maurice Williams made a remarkable 1960 comeback by pacing the pop hit parade with his new group, The Zodiacs. Stay was the shortest song to pace the pop charts at just over a minute-and-a-half, making it all the more compelling.

After three less successful followups, The Gladiolas had exited Excello without their name (Young owned it). Either their manager or a group member suggested renaming the group after a new foreign car, the Zodiac, that billing debuting on a '59 single for the Columbia, S.C.-based Cole logo. Pretty soon, the first incarnation of the group imploded. Williams reorganized The Zodiacs with tenors Henry Gaston and Wiley Bennett and baritone Charles Thomas. Bassist Albert Hill and drummer Little Willie Morrow were added later. Maurice doubled on piano.

Midway through 1960, Williams made some demos for producers Phil Gernhard and Johnny McCullough in a Quonset hut studio. Al Silver of New York's Herald Records snapped the tapes up, including Stay. The bouncy Do You Believe, half of their Herald debut, broke first down South, but the atmospheric Stay quickly overshadowed it, entering the R&B hit parade in late September and rising to #3 (Gaston's soaring falsetto passages were a real ear-grabber). It did even better than that with pop audiences, venturing to the top in late November.

The Zodiacs' next two Herald offerings, I Remember and Come Along (a Stay soundalike) made minor pop chart noise in early '61. But Stay remained the group's calling card, spawning hit covers by The 4 Seasons in 1964 and Jackson Browne in '78. Several more Zodiacs singles emerged on Herald before the group hopped to Atlantic, Scepter, Sphere Sound, Vee-Jay (where in 1965 they introduced the beach music gem May I, revived successfully in '69 by Bill Deal & The Rhondels), and Marshall Sehorn and Allen Toussaint's Deesu logo. 

 

Various - Street Corner Symphonies 1960 Vol.12

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Tracklist
Williams, Maurice & The Zodiac - At The Beach (CD) CD 1
01 In Crowd
02 Stubborn Kind Of Fellow
03 Something You Got
04 Stay
05 Soldier Boy
06 Lollipop
07 Twist & Shout
08 It'S Not Unusual
09 You've Lost That Loving Feeling
10 Sherry
11 Every Beat Of My Heart
12 If I Had A Hammer