Cat. No. 2789: THE ROBINS ~ WEST COAST DOO WOP 1949-1961. JASMINE JASCD 795. (IMPORT).
THE ROBINS WERE A SUCCESSFUL INFLUENTIAL AMERICAN R&B GROUP OF THE LATE 1940s AND 1950s, ONE OF THE EARLIEST SUCH VOCAL GROUPS WHO ESTABLISHED THE BASIC PATTERN FOR THE DOO-WOP SOUND. THEY WERE FOUNDED BY TY TERRELL, AND TWIN BROTHERS BILLY RICHARDS AND RAY RICHARDS, BOBBY NUNN JOINED THE GROUP SHORTLY AFTER. THEY BEGAN THEIR CAREER AS THE FOUR BLUEBIRDS BUT SWITCHED TO RECORDING AS THE ROBINS IN MAY 1949. IN 1955, THE GROUP DISAGREED OVER WHETHER TO REMAIN ON THE WEST COAST OR SIGN WITH ATLANTIC RECORDS AND MOVE TO THE EAST COAST. THIS LED TO A SPLIT WITHIN THE GROUP. MUSIC PRODUCERS JERRY LEIBER AND MIKE STOLLER TOOK FORMER ROBINS MEMBERS NUNN AND CARL GARDNER, RECRUITED SINGERS LEON HUGHES AND BILLY GUY AND FORMED THE COASTERS. THE FOUNDING RICHARDS BROTHERS AND TERRELL CONTINUED TO RECORD AS THE ROBINS UNTIL 1961. THIS SUPERB 58 TRACK 2CD SET FEATURES JUST OVER HALF OF THEIR SINGLES OUTPUT FROM THE MANY LABELS THEY RECORDED FOR FROM 1949 THROUGH TO 1961 AND INCLUDES SONGS FEATURING MICKEY CHAMPION AND MAGGIE HATHAWAY. SUPERB EARLY RHYTHM AND BLUES AND DOO WOP *****
TRACK LISTING: CD1 – My Baby Done Told Me (The Four Bluebirds) / Around About Midnight / You Sure Look Good To Me / I Don’t Like The Way You’re Doing / Come Back Baby / Found Me A Sugar Daddy (Mickey Champion & The Nic Nacs) / Gonna Have A Merry Christmas (Mickey Champion & The Nic Nacs) / You Didn’t Want My Love (The Nic Nacs) / If I Didn’t Love You So / If It’s So Baby / Double Crossing Blues / The Turkey Hop (Part 2) / Our Romance Is Gone / There Ain’t No Use Beggin’ / I’m Living OK / There’s Rain In My Eyes / I’m Through / You’re Fine But Not My Kind / Rockin’ / That’s What The Good Book Says / A Falling Star (Maggie Hathaway & The Robins) / When Gabriel Blows His Horn / Schoolgirl Blues / Early Morning Blues / (Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I / My Heart’s The Biggest Fool / All Night Baby / Oh Why.
CD2 – Let’s Go To The Dance / How Would You Know / My Baby Done Told Me / ‘ll Do It / Ten Days In Jail / Empty Bottles / Don’t Stop Now / Get It Off Your Mind / I Made A Vow / Double Crossin’ Baby / All I Do Is Rock / Key To My Heart / Framed / The Hatchet Man / Cherry Lips / Out Of The Picture / Hurt Me / Since I First Met You / A Fool In Love / All Of A Sudden My Heart Sings / Every Night / Where There’s Fire / A Little Bird Told Me / Just Like That / Whole Lot Of Imagination / Live Wire Suzie / Oh No / How Many More Times / White Cliffs Of Dover / Magic Of A Dream.
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