Cat No:
JASCD1047
Release Date: 10 September 2021
Label: Jasmine Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 604988104721
Genres: Easy Listening Doo-Wop
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Description
Although they invariably get filed under "One Hit Wonders", The Elegants - an excellent white Doo-Wop quintet from Staten Island, New York - actually charted two further titles, 'Please Believe Me' and 'Goodnight', in addition to their chart-topping, multi-million-selling 'Little Star', back in 1958.
They were a vastly underrated vocal group; lead singer Vito Picone - who was still in his teens when he cut most of these sides - possessed a strong, mellifluous voice, and this is a remarkably strong body of work.
This compilation sweeps up virtually everything they recorded between 1958-62, across five different record labels; Apt, Hull, United Artists, ABC-Paramount and Photo. Also included as bonus tracks are both sides of an earlier 45 which they recorded as 'Pat Cordel & The Crescents', in 1956.
This is the first wholly comprehensive Elegants compilation and sides like 'I'd Still Be Waiting', 'Rain, Rain Go Away', 'All Of A Sudden', 'Dressin' Up' and 'A Dream Can Come True' have not previously appeared on CD.
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Tracklisting
- 1. Little Star
- 2. Getting Dizzy
- 3. Please Believe Me
- 4. Goodnight
- 5. Pay Day
- 6. True Love Affair
- 7. Little Boy Blue (Is Blue No More)
- 8. Get Well Soon
- 9. I'll Still Be Waiting
- 10. Rain, Rain Go Away
- 11. All Of A Sudden
- 12. Speak Low
- 13. Let My Prayers Be With You
- 14. Happiness
- 15. Spiral
- 16. Tiny Cloud
- 17. I've Seen Everything
- 18. Dressin' Up
- 19. A Dream Can Come True
- 20. My Tears (Pat Cordel & The Crescents)
- 21. Darling Come Back (Pat Cordel & The Crescents)
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