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Little Star

The Elegants

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Format: CD

Cat No: JASCD1047

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Release Date:  10 September 2021

Label:  Jasmine Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  604988104721

Genres:  Easy Listening  Doo-Wop  

  • 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.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 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)