Harptones: Harptones Collection 1953-61
Harptones: Harptones Collection 1953-61
Format: CD
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Artist: Harptones
Label: Acrobat
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046337421
Genre: Soul/R & B
The Harptones were one of the many doowop vocal groups to emerge from New York City in the early '50s, and although they did not have an illustrious chart career, they were one of the most consistently admired and popular groups, both with the contemporary market of the times and with doowop fans and critics in more recent years. With the distinctive tenor voice of Willie Winfield almost always to the fore, they produced a string of polished and classy performances on record through the 1950s, hampered in their search for chart success by recording for a variety of small and under-resourced record companies. This great-value 54-track 2-CD set comprises A and B sides of singles for the Bruce, Essex, X, Paradise, Andrea, Rama, Gee, Tip Top, Domme, Warwick, Coed, Companion and Cub labels during this era, and features their best-known recordings such as "A Sunday Kind of Love", "Why Should I Love You?", "Life is But a Dream", "The Shrine of St. Cecilia", and "What Will I Tell My Heart". As well as their own recordings it includes performances with Bunny Paul, The Woodside Sisters, Mabel King, Raoul Cita Chorus, Ruth McFadden, Carol Blades and Valli Hilton, on which they were either named featured artists or backing vocalists. It's a worthy showcase for one of doowop's most stylish exponents.
Tracks:
1.1 A Sunday Kind of Love
1.2 I'll Never Tell
1.3 My Memories of You
1.4 It Was Just for Laughs
1.5 I Depended on You
1.6 Mambo Boogie
1.7 Why Should I Love You?
1.8 Forever Mine
1.9 I'll Never Tell
1.10 Honey Love
1.11 So Soon
1.12 Love Me
1.13 Since I Fell for You
1.14 Oobidee Oobidee Oo (You're the One for Me)
1.15 I Almost Lost My Mind
1.16 Oo Wee Baby
1.17 Life Is But a Dream
1.18 You Know You're Doing Me Wrong
1.19 My Success (It All Depends on You)
1.20 I've Got a Notion
1.21 What Is Your Decision
1.22 Gimmie Some
1.23 Three Wishes
1.24 That's the Way It Goes
1.25 Second Hand Love
1.26 Symbol of Love
1.27 Chang Chang a Lang
2.1 My Memories of You
2.2 High Flyin' Baby
2.3 School Boy
2.4 The Masquerade Is Over
2.5 On Sunday Afternoon
2.6 The Shrine of St. Cecilia
2.7 Oo Wee Baby
2.8 What Did I Do Wrong?
2.9 When Will I Know?
2.10 Cry Like I Cried
2.11 So Good So Fine, You're Mine
2.12 For a Lifetime
2.13 Laughing on the Outside
2.14 I Remember
2.15 Hep Teenager
2.16 Love Me Completely
2.17 What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am) ?
2.18 No Greater Miracle
2.19 Answer Me My Love
2.20 Rain Down Kisses
2.21 All in Your Mind
2.22 The Last Dance
2.23 What Will I Tell My Heart
2.24 Foolish Me
2.25 Loving a Girl Like You
2.26 Devil in Velvet
2.27 Your Love Is a Good Love
Audio Sample:
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