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"Earth Angel", occasionally referred to as "Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)", is a song by American doo-wop group the Penguins. Produced by Dootsie Williams, it was released as their debut single in October 1954 on Dootone Records. The Penguins had formed the year prior and recorded the song as a demo in a garage in South Central Los Angeles.
Jesse Lorenzo Belvin (December 15, 1932 – February 6, 1960) was an American singer, pianist and songwriter popular in the 1950s. Belvin co-wrote the 1954 Penguins' doo-wop classic "Earth Angel", which sold more than 10 million copies, while his top recording was the 1956 single "Goodnight My Love", a song that reached No. 7 on Billboard's R&B chart.
He reprised his performance a decade later on Frank Zappa's "Memories of El Monte", an elegiac 1963 song in which he suddenly breaks into "Earth Angel" as one of the various songs remembered. [7] El Monte , a city near Los Angeles, had spawned such popular performers as Tony Allan, Marvin & Johnny , and The Shields as well as the Penguins.
Earth Angel, is a song by American doo-wop group the Penguins It may also refer to: Earth Angel, a 1991 TV movie starring Cindy Williams "Earth Angel" , an episode ...
A number of other hits followed including "Earth Angel" which rose to the number 2 spot on the charts and had great success in the UK and Australia. Many of the non-cover songs of theirs that became hits in Canada were unknown in the United States, while it was only their covers that had great success in the United States.
"Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)" Curtis Williams/Jesse Belvin/Gaynel Hodge: 2 "Standing on the Corner" Frank Loesser: 3 "Shangri-La" Carl Sigman/Matt Malneck/Robert Maxwell: 4 "Time After Time" Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne: 5 "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" Sammy Fain/Paul Francis Webster: 6 "P.S. I Love You" Johnny Mercer/Gordon Jenkins: 7 "If I ...
"Earth Song" is a song by the American singer Michael Jackson. It was written by Jackson and produced by Jackson, David Foster and Bill Bottrell . It was released by Epic Records on November 7, 1995, as the third single from Jackson's ninth studio album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995).
"Cast the First Stone" and "Just A Dream" are very similar in sound to the songs on Angel and Helluva Band. In fact, "Cast The First Stone" was written during the Helluva Band sessions. The band toured non-stop and it was during this time they made their only tour of Japan. The album peaked at #76 on the US Billboard charts.