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It was written by a 16-year-old Maurice Williams with both melody and doo-wop accompaniment strongly emphasizing a Calypso rhythm. First recorded in January 1957 by Williams' group the Gladiolas, it was quickly released as a single on Excello Records, a small swamp blues label owned by Nashville record man Earnie Young, who was responsible for creating the song's Latin feel, naming the group ...
The composition, in the words of jazz writer, Donald Clarke, is "an object lesson in how to swing at a slow tempo." [3]Gary Giddins expands on the importance of tempo in the performance of "Li'l Darlin '", saying that "in the enduring 'Li'l Darlin ' ', [Hefti] tested the band's temporal mastery with a slow and simple theme that dies if it isn't played at exactly the right tempo.
This is a category for bands that are part of the Long Island, New York music scene. Pages in category "Musical groups from Long Island" The following 118 pages are in this category, out of 118 total.
The quartet's first single "Little Darlin '", is a well-regarded punk single. Then, the band released 1992's rollicking Budspawn , which was released independently on External Records (the original vinyl version consisted of eight tracks clocking in at over 30 minutes while the CD version had six tracks and was classified as an EP instead).
The members were Williams, Gaston, Wiley Bennett, and Charles Thomas. Later, Little Willie Morrow and Albert Hill were added. [2] One month later, in the early summer of 1959, the band recorded in a Quonset Hut on Shakespeare Road in Columbia. The recording engineer, Homer Fesperman, recorded several tracks that the band had hoped would include ...
He left Pickwick to start his own record label, Little Darlin', in 1966. The most successful Little Darlin' records were done by the country and western singer and songwriter Johnny Paycheck. Mayhew co-wrote some of Paycheck's songs. At the end of the 1960s, he suspended the Little Darlin' label and launched a new label, Certron.
In February 1956 with the recommendation of Cleveland’s genius DJ, Dr. Bill Randle, they signed a long-term contract with Mercury Records. Somerville performed eight years with The Diamonds, singing lead on all sixteen of their Billboard chart selections, peaking with the song "Little Darlin';" for eight weeks, this selection remained at #2 ...
Sony, Little Darlin', Epic, Certron Musical artist Johnny Paycheck (born Donald Eugene Lytle ; May 31, 1938 – February 19, 2003) [ 1 ] was an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song " Take This Job and Shove It ".