Jukebox Saturday Night Volume 2
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Here’s another collection of scratchy jukebox singles for your Rockin’Saturday Night. Once again, these are all culled from my collection, all original 45 RPM records. Jukebox Heart Never forgets its roots!
Here’s the Playlist. After the cut, there’s information about each release and the obligatory label shots for my collector buddies and fabulous graphic design geeks…
The Videos – Trickle Trickle
(Casino Records, 1958)
The Jesters – I Laughed
(Cyclone Records, 1958)
Frankie Lymon – Little Bitty Pretty One
(Roulette Records, 1958)
The Revalons – Dreams Are For Fools
(Pet Records, 1958)
Nino and the Ebb Tides – Jukebox Saturday Night
(Madison Records, 1961)
Nino and the Ebb Tides – (Someday) I’ll Fall in Love
(Madison Records, 1961)
The Regents – Laura My Darling
(Gee Records, 1961)
Reparata and the Delrons – Whenever A Teenager Cries
(World Artists Records, 1963)
The Safaris – Image of a Girl
(Eldo Records, 1960)
The Knockouts – Darling Lorraine
(Shad Records, 1959)
The Pyramids – Ankle Bracelet
(Shell Records, 1961)
The Rivileers – A Thousand Stars
(Baton Records, 1954)
The Cadillacs – Gloria
(Josie Records, 1954)
The RObins – One Kiss
(Spark Records, 1955)
Fats Domino – Ain’t It A Shame
(Imperial Records, 1956)
Cark Perkins – Blue Suede Shoes
(Sun Records, 1957)
Bill Justis – Raunchy
(Phillips Int’l Records, 1957)
The Videos are a historically significant group in that they were formerly known as The Five Sharps, whose sleepy rendition of the standard Stormy Weather is the doo wip collectible equivalent of The Arc of The Covenant. It’s master was lost in a fire, but Jubilee Records show it was issued as a 45. To date, only a handful of copies have surfaced on 78 RPM only. The first copy materialized in the eearly 70s and was quickly mastered from its original 78 and reissued by the Brooklyn-based boutique label, Bim Bam Boom. It is currently available with the rest of the Bim Bam Boom catalog on a double CD compilation. The Jesters are one of the quintessential New York doo wop groups, and the LP “The Paragons Meet The Jesters” was a staple LP in my house when my siblings and I were growing up. Big celebrity Frankie Lymon in his solo post-adolescent voice here delivering the rock classic first given to us by Thurston Harris. The Revalons were a Brooklyn based group, and this fantastic uptempo tune was the flip to their local hit “This is the Moment”. Nino and the EbbTides were from the Bronx, and although they’d been singing since the mid-fities, they found their success with Jukebox Saturday Night, the namesake of this segment of Jukebox Heart, during the first wave of the doo wop revival in 1961, and while I’m not a tremendous fan of the white-doo wop that flooded this pre-Beatles era, the flip of Jukebox Saturday Night, (Someday) I’ll Fall in Love is a tremendous example of this. The Regents, most recognizable for their original version of Barbara Ann, later catapulted to legendary status by the Beach Boys, were underrated for their vocal harmony talents as shown here on the flipside of their hit Runaround with Laura, My Darling. The early sixties flourished with girl groups, and Reparata and the Delrons were a two-hit wonder who vanished after “Whenever a Teenager Cries”. Led by Jimmy Stephens, the light-singing Safaris hit the first time out with “Image of a Girl” (number seven Billboard) in 1960 on Eldo Records, but the So Cal base group never had another one. The knockouts wre another one-hit wonder and hailed from Lyndhurst New Jersey. The Pyramids’ “Ankle Bracelet” has been in my collection since I found this copy at the Roll-A-Rama flea market in Brooklyn while I was still in elementary school. It’s a classic, but I can’t find any information about the group. But it’s a terrible pressing with levels varyng all over the place! The Rivileers are another New York group, and this is the doo wop style I love best, from the 1954 time frame. This is the original version of “A Thousand Stars”, a song made famous in the early 60s by Kathy Young and the Innocents. The fabulous Cadillacs are shown here with perhaps the most covered song in all of doo-wop-dom, Gloria. There is a lot of interesting controversy over the writing credits for this song, but it is safe to say that this is the first incarnation of this particular version. The Robins are another famous group, dating back to the late 40s when they recorded for Johnny Otis’s Savoy Records label. In the late 50’s, half of the group went on to become the Coasters, and the remaining members went on to form the late 50’s personnel of the Drifters. This is my favorite song by the Robins. It was penned by the famous team Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, who also ran the label that released the record. How two nice Jewish boys could write such credible black music remains a mystery to this day. *wink* “Ain’t It A Shame” is one of The Fat Man’s timeless standards familiar to anyone with access to an oldies radio station. Carl Perkins was an American pioneer of rockabilly music, recorded most notably at Sun Records in Memphis, beginning in 1954. An outstanding performer, his touch on rock and roll music is still heard to this day, especially through his fine compositions and guitar playing. His best known song is collected here, “Blue Suede Shoes”. And finally, Bill Justis was an American pioneer Rock and Roll musician, composer, and musical arranger best known for his 1957 Grammy Hall of Fame song “Raunchy.” He was born in Birmingham, Alabama but grew up in Memphis, Tennessee and studied music at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. A trumpet and saxophone player, while in university he performed with local jazz and dance bands. He returned home to Memphis in 1954 and was eventually taken on by Sam Phillips at Sun Records where he recorded music for himself as well as arranged the music for Sun artists such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash and Charlie Rich. Released in November of 1957, his song “Raunchy” was the first Rock and Roll instrumental hit and its popularity was such that it reached No.2 on the American Billboard record charts.
