EagerBoy59 Channel profile

Join: May 3, 2008

Name: EagerBoy59

Gender: Male

Location: VA

Videos Watched: 2867

Subscribers: 68

Channel Views: 2730

Books: Waterland (Graham Swift), Europe and the people without history (Eric Wolf), Little Big Man (Thomas Berger), Confessions of a poker player (Jack King), The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy), A people who would not kneel (James Howe), Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)

Movies: Napoleon Dynamite, The Big Lebowski, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Bull Durham, Entertaining Mister Sloane, Mean Streets, Boogie Nights, Carry On Constable, Fargo, Some Like It Hot, The Harder They Come, The Night Of The Hunter, Inherit The Wind, The Long Goodbye, Gone To Earth, Fargo, The Front Page (version with Rosalind Russell), Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Dad's Army (television), Peep Show (television), John Shuttleworth (radio), and Count Arthur Strong (radio).

Music: R'n'B vocal groups, 50's blues, rock and roll, deep soul, old-time ska and rock steady, Orioles, Swallows, Five Keys (Aladdin recordings), Harptones, Cadillacs (before they starting copying The Coasters, though I love The Coasters), Robins, Ravens, Moonglows, Elvis, Fats Domino, Carl Perkins, Charlie Feathers, Sonny Fisher, Muddy Waters (up to 1955), Howling Wolf, Donnie Elbert, Joe Bataan, Bongo Joe (George Coleman), plenty of stuff on Chess, Sun, Red Robin, Stax, Atlantic, Apollo, Meteor, King, Modern, Rama, Whirlin' Disc, Studio One, and too many one-off records to mention by name. Some visitors to this channel have asked me what my own favorite records are. My personal top ten changes week after week, but these (in no particular order) are among my current favorites and would all be candidates for an all-time favorite list: The Four Bells - Please Tell It To Me, The Concords - Candlelight, Bobby Relf and The Laurels - Yours Alone, The Five Willows - My Dear Dearest Darling, The Velvets - I,, The Five Chimes - Rosemarie, The Hide-a-ways - Can't Help Lovin' That Girl Of Mine, The Cardinals - Shouldn't I Know, The Ambassadors - Darling I'm Sorry, and The Dreamers - Melba. Non-vocal groups favorites include the following. John Brim - Tough Times, Muddy Waters - Louisiana Blues. Tony and Jackie Lamie - Wore To A Frazzel, and Mack Banks - You're So Dumb. Some of these are already up on Youtube (posted by others), so look around if you are interested in getting to hear them. Youtube channels morenocarlos12 and PJDooWop are good places to start looking for these and similar records.

Videos (122)

Ultrasonic 109 - Iridescents - The Angels Sang

Length: 2:11
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Author: EagerBoy59

Tags: and Angels blues doo group Iridescents rhythm Sang The vocal wop

This 1960 interpretation of The Solitaires' classic, with juvenile lead and flute accompaniment, was the earliest of three records I know of by The Iridescents. The other two, released on New York's Hudson in 1963 and 1964 respectively, are 'Three Coins In The Fountain' and 'Hey There'.

Peacock 1666 - Big Walter - Pack Fair and Square

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Author: EagerBoy59

Tags: and Big blues Fair Pack rhythm rock roll Square Walter

Big Walter Price (known also as The Thunderbird) cut this booting rocker for Don Robey's Texas Peacock label in 1956.

Cash 101 - Tremaines - Moon Shining Bright

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Author: EagerBoy59

Tags: and blues Bright doo group Moon rhythm Shining Tremaines vocal wop

The lovely 'Moon Shining Bright' was issued on Cash and again on Old Town in 1958. The Tremaines were from New York.

Bold 101 - Mixers - You Said You're Leaving

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Author: EagerBoy59

Tags: and blues doo group Leaving Mixers rhythm Said vocal wop You You're

Bold issued two excellent records by The Mixers in 1959 before both group and label disappeared without trace. Publishers Joni might have been the same company that in earlier years handled most of the Chance/Sabre catalog, suggesting a Chicago origin for both The Mixers and Bold.

Jaguar 3005 - Four Brothers and a Cousin - Can It Be

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Author: EagerBoy59

Tags: and Be blues Brothers Can Cousin doo Four group It rhythm vocal wop

The second of two records (the first features a fine version of the standard 'Trust In Me') that Four Brothers and a Cousin made for Jaguar in 1954, though their recordings sound somewhat earlier. On the basis of a Jackie Lee Cochran record I have on this label, I believe Jaguar was based in...