Subscribe Feed (RSS)Where can I get Maurice Williams and the Zodiac (or Gladiolas) singing “Little Darling”?
January 25th, 2010 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in Singing
John (Thurb) McVey asked:
A clip of “The Diamonds” singing it, sounding just like they did in their 1957 recording and the 1958 movie, was on TV, and there are youtube clips of them as young men and old men singing it, in the latter Maurice Williams taking over the bass in an encore, but Williams and “The Gladiolas” put it on the charts before “The Diamonds” made it the first rock and roll song to be released on a 45 rpm, No. 2 on the charts only because of Elvis’s popularity in 1957! The unpublicized down-side of the era was white singers stealing black singers’ thunder.
Thanks, love to dance, for your answer. The clerk said they don’t have it in stock in that particular store, but they can order it, and he also told another store in town where I could probably get it immediately. Heard the Gladiolas perform it when it first came out. Missed dowop (sp) snce the fifties.
A clip of “The Diamonds” singing it, sounding just like they did in their 1957 recording and the 1958 movie, was on TV, and there are youtube clips of them as young men and old men singing it, in the latter Maurice Williams taking over the bass in an encore, but Williams and “The Gladiolas” put it on the charts before “The Diamonds” made it the first rock and roll song to be released on a 45 rpm, No. 2 on the charts only because of Elvis’s popularity in 1957! The unpublicized down-side of the era was white singers stealing black singers’ thunder.
Thanks, love to dance, for your answer. The clerk said they don’t have it in stock in that particular store, but they can order it, and he also told another store in town where I could probably get it immediately. Heard the Gladiolas perform it when it first came out. Missed dowop (sp) snce the fifties.
Tags: Fifties, Maurice Williams, Popularity
