There are a couple of video responses that don't show for some reason. Anyway, here are the links to them: http://uk ...
There are a couple of video responses that don't show for some reason. Anyway, here are the links to them:
http://uk.youtube.com//watch?v=bBEmRhnF3-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dSonwr_uPE
The other side has "Chantilly Lace" by the Big Bopper. On the Collectables label.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zfx4MM5ppI
Here, I'm using my Sony CCD-TRV608 camcorder for better view of the Pioneer PL-518.
Also on Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2692848011304187877
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On most informed lists of rock & roll villains, the Crew Cuts would have to rank near the top. They weren't rock ...
On most informed lists of rock & roll villains, the Crew Cuts would have to rank near the top. They weren't rock & rollers in the first place: their clean-cut White harmony glee-club approach was really in the style of early and mid-'50s groups such as the Four Aces, the Four Lads, and the Four Freshmen. The Canadian quartet differed from those acts, however, in their concentration upon covers of songs originally recorded by R&B/doo wop vocal groups.
Their cover of the Chords' "Sh-Boom" set the pattern, going to number one in 1954 and setting the stage for their other commercially successful pop treatments of R&B hits by the Penguins, Gene & Eunice, Otis Williams & the Charms, the Robins, the Spaniels, the Nutmegs, and others. The Toronto foursome already had a Top Ten hit under their belts with their first major label single, "Crazy 'Bout Ya Baby," before tackling "Sh-Boom"; what's more, their first hit had been a group original, not an R&B cover.
When the Crew Cuts got a hold of "Sh-Boom," they gave the song a far more standard, Whiter pop treatment than the Chords had, complete with big-band type orchestration. Although the original Chords version still became one of the first Top Ten rock & roll hits, the Crew Cuts' cover outsold it by a wide margin, finding a far easier entrance into established radio formats and mainstream White audiences.
The Crew Cuts were regular visitors to the Top 20 over the next couple of years, repeating the "Sh-Boom" syndrome with songs like "Earth Angel," their second-biggest hit at number three (though nobody remembers the Crew Cuts' version today, the Penguins' original having long established supremacy with audiences and on oldies stations). Their strategy of foraging for sources among Black R&B vocal singles was widely imitated throughout the industry, by Pat Boone, the McGuire Sisters, Georgia Gibbs, and numerous others.
Many rock historians point out -- with a great deal of justification -- that this amounted to an attempt by the music establishment to buck the oncoming threatening storm of the rock era by watering it down into a much more palatable and conventional form that in reality had little to do with rock at all. For a while, it worked -- the White covers frequently outsold the Black R&B originals throughout 1954-56. But after Elvis, Chuck Berry, and others had staked their own claim on superstardom, it became increasingly obvious that teenagers preferred the real article, and that the entrenchment of authentic rock & roll was inevitable. Some revisionists have claimed, dubiously, that the Crew Cuts actually helped pave the way for the acceptance of rock in the mainstream by giving all those doo wop songs a far greater audience than they could have found if they were ghettoized in the R&B community. After a while, however, the Crew Cuts themselves were being widely outsold by their sources; "Young Love" (a cover, of course, although this time of the country classic by Sonny James) was their last Top 20 hit in early 1957. Their Mercury hits are far more properly classified as pop vocal outings than rock & roll, owing much more to pre-rock harmony and band arrangements. By 1958, they'd left Mercury for stints with RCA and other labels; they broke up in 1964.
~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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The Crew Cuts SH-BOOM. Played on a 1965 ROWE/AMI Jukebox - This Jukebox came from a Bar in Boston MA. ...
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"Lipstick on Your Collar" (1993) , UK Channel 4 mini-series , Written & Produced by Dennis Potter Ewan McGregors first ...
"Lipstick on Your Collar" (1993) , UK Channel 4 mini-series , Written & Produced by Dennis Potter
Ewan McGregors first acting role, done 6 months from completing acting school, and he never looked back.
A tale of youthful lust, against a backdrop of the 1956 Suez crisis and national service. Interspersed with some great music from the start of the Rock & Roll era, which, for some reason the cast just start singing along to. Seems silly, and it is, but it works, and adds the right touch to the storyline, reflecting all those times when you wish life was a musical. (IMDb)
"I like the sort of music where "moon" don't rhyme with "June," and you're not up to your backside in bloody buttercups. Songs that aren't about your mum and dad. A bit rough. A beat that busts up the old way...the old stodge...the empire...and knowing your place, and "excuse me," and dressing up, and doing what you're told, and not once being asked! " (Private Hopper ''Ewan McGregor'') (IMDb)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107423/
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Demo of My 1964 Seeburg Jukebox, Playing Sh-boom ,by the Crew Cuts ...
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Doo Wop Classics 6 - The Coasters sing "Yakety Yak", The Crew Cuts sing "Sh-Boom" (Life Can Be A Dream) and The Tokens ...
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This cover song was released shortly after the Chords' recording. ...
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Canadian quartet who had a big hit covering The Chords 'Sh-Boom' a year earlier. This was a #4 UK charter ...
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This was a stunning performance from The Majestics at the Night in the Spotlight Take V on February 2, 2007. The original ...
This was a stunning performance from The Majestics at the Night in the Spotlight Take V on February 2, 2007. The original recording of the song was by The Chords
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Issued probably March 1954 on Mercury 70341. After The Four Lads, the next superstar pop vocal group to come out of ...
Issued probably March 1954 on Mercury 70341.
After The Four Lads, the next superstar pop vocal group to come out of Canada were Toronto's Crew-Cuts. Rudi Maugeri (baritone), John Perkins (lead), Ray Perkins (bass) and Pat Barrett (tenor) started the group when they were still members of the St. Michael's Boys Choir. Prior to the group's foundation, Maugeri and John Perkins had sung together in The Jordonaires (not Elvis' backing group "The Jordanaires") with two other members who would go on to join the Four Lads, but quit to finish high school. Following graduation, they joined with Ray Perkins and Pat Barrett in March 1952 in a group called The Four Tones.
Toronto DJ Barry Nesbitt heard them sing, and invited them to perform on his weekly teen program. Its audience renamed the group "The Canadaires." They started to receive steady work under this name, so much that all four quit their day jobs to sing full-time.
They saved up some money while slogging it out in the Niagara Falls club circuit, and drove to New York to appear on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Hunt, where they won second place. They missed out on a potential recording contract after appearing in Toronto in March 1953 with Giselle Mackenzie, because, while she enthused about them to her record label, she could not remember their name.
While playing in Sudbury, Ontario in the winter of 1953, they received word from their agent that they had been offered a guest spot on a TV show in Cleveland. They drove in minus-forty degree temperatures for six hundred miles in a car without heat to appear on "The Gene Carroll Show." In Cleveland, DJ Bill Randle befriended the group, renamed them "The Crew-Cuts" after their hairstyles, and got them an audition with Mercury Records in Chicago. (He would do the same for The Diamonds a year later.) Mercury signed them up.
The first single by The Crew-Cuts didn't go very far, but their second, the self-composed "Crazy 'Bout You Baby" went Top 10 in the spring of 1954. Immediately afterward, they would follow the direction of other Mercury artists and make nice, safe cover versions of R&B records by black performers. Their version of The Chords' "Sh-Boom" went to #1 and put them in the history books. Upon returning to Toronto, they were treated to a ticker-tape parade.
The Crew-Cuts' R&B covers were never more popular than the original versions, but they managed to stay in the Top 20 with a string of them through 1957. In a strange turn of events, their lesser-known material was more popular in Canada, while their R&B covers were more popular in the US.
In 1958, The Crew-Cuts moved to RCA, then to other, ever-smaller labels and never had another hit. The group disbanded in 1964.
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1961 The Belmonts - Tell Me Why 1956 The Diamonds - Why Do Fools Fall in Love 1963 The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron 1960 The ...
1961 The Belmonts - Tell Me Why
1956 The Diamonds - Why Do Fools Fall in Love
1963 The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron
1960 The Passions - Gloria
1957 The Charts - Dance Girl
1957 Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords - Honey Honey
1963 The Classics - Till Then
1954 The Crew Cuts - Sh-Boom
1961 Barry Mann - Who Put the Bomp
1959 Norman Fox & The Rob Roys - Dream girl
1954 The Penguins - Earth Angel
1955 The Rainbows - Mary Lee
1954 The Wrens - Come Back My Love
1962 The Contours - Do You Love Me
1961 The Marcels - Blue Moon
1957 The Monotones - Book Of Love
1955 The Valentines - Lily Maebelle
1959 The Fascinators - Oh Rose Marie
1961 The Earls - Lookin' for My Baby
1962 The Earls - Remember Then
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The 45 Men performing The Crew Cuts 1954 version of the Doo Wop song Sh-Boom. 2 min 45 secs. Recorded on one of those ...
The 45 Men performing The Crew Cuts 1954 version of the Doo Wop song Sh-Boom. 2 min 45 secs. Recorded on one of those little camera things on Sat 11 Nov 2006 in Mersea nr Colchester. L to R Grahame Andrew - Vox, Anton Pace - Vox/Sax, Mick Stow - Bass, Gary Leach - Vox/Drums, Paul Rutterford - Vox/Guitar. Check out www.myspace.com/hittingdrums for more info.
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