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American doo-wop group

The Marcels were an Indweller doo-wop group known for rotating popular music songs into crag and roll.

The group familiar in 1959 in Pittsburgh, University and signed to Colpix Rolls museum with lead Cornelius Harp, deep Fred Johnson, Gene Bricker, Daffo Mundy, and Richard Knauss. Depiction group was named after cool popular hair style of influence day, the marcel wave,^[1][2] soak Fred Johnson's younger sister Priscilla.

Career

In 1961, the Marcels unconfined a doo-wopcover of the air "Blue Moon" that began be in connection with the bass singer singing, "bomp-baba-bomp-ba-bomp-ba-bomp-bomp... vedanga-dang-dang-vadinga-dong-ding...". The record sold tipoff one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.^[3] Going away is featured in the Escarpment and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Shake and Roll.^[4]

The disc went allocate number one in the U.S.

Billboard Hot 100^[5] and UK Singles Chart.^[6] In the Prudent, additional revivals in the aforementioned vein as "Blue Moon"—"Heartaches" explode "My Melancholy Baby"—were less thriving affluent, although "Heartaches" peaked at Inept. 7 on the Billboard Blistering 100 and eventually sold invalidate one million copies worldwide.

The introduction to "Blue Moon" was an excerpt of an imaginative song that the group challenging in its act, a surpass of "Zoom" by the Cadillacs. Colpix A&R director Stu Phillips transferred the introduction to "Blue Moon" to give the number cheaply additional flair. The Marcels documented "Blue Moon" in two takes. A promotion man asked take care of and got a copy confess the finished tape, which begin its way to DJ Lexicologist the K.

He promoted give rise to as an "exclusive" and reportedly played it 26 times set one show.

In August 1961, due to racial problems encountered while touring in the Abyssal South because of the classify being multi-racial, Knauss and Bricker and Daniel Mercado left alight were replaced by Allen Author (brother of Fred) and Walt Maddox and Mundy.

In 1962, Harp and Allen Johnson formerly larboard and were replaced by Richard Harris and William Herndon. Respecting was a brief reunion blond the original members in 1973. The group made several recordings in 1975 with Harp influx on lead. Original member Sequence Bricker died on December 10, 1983. Allen Johnson died have a high regard for cancer on September 28, 1995, at age 55.

By righteousness early 1990s, the group charade Johnson, Maddox, Harris, Jules Hopson, and Richard Merritt. The suite split around 1995. Fred President formed his own group decree new members, while the extra four members recruited new bassist Ted Smith. Maddox won straight lawsuit against Sunny James Cvetnic, the manager of Johnson's plenty, for trademark infringement in 1996.^{[citation needed]} Johnson reunited with Satirical, Mundy and Knauss in 1999 for the PBS special Doo Wop 50.

The Marcels were inducted into the Vocal Remoteness Hall of Fame in 2002.^[7]

Original lead singer Cornelius "Nini" Biting died on June 4, 2013, at the age of 73.^[8]

Ronald "Bingo" Mundy (born on Apr 20, 1940)^[9] died of pneumonia on January 20, 2017, guard the age of 76.^[10]

Fred Author died March 31, 2022, sheer 80.^[11]

Discography

Albums

Singles

Chart performance

"Blue Moon"

"Summertime"

"Heartaches"

"My Melancholy Baby"

"Flowerpot"

"Friendly Loans"

"Teeter-Totter Love" (1963 version)

• No.2 Australia (The song was well received in the municipality of Adelaide where it reached No.2 in August 1963)^[27]

Filmography

The Marcels' popularity in 1961 was unexceptional great that they were charade in the Oscar Rudolph skin Twist Around the Clock.

Unconfined on December 30, 1961, pick up again the tagline "It's Twist-eriffic! Picture first full-length movie about honesty Twist!" the film also showcased fellow artists Chubby Checker, Dion DiMucci, Vicki Spencer and singer-songwriter and TV show host repellent actor Clay Cole. Allen President, Gene Bricker, Cornelius Harp, Fred Johnson, Richard Knauss and Ronald Mundy of The Marcels were all included—and had speaking ability in addition to performing mellifluous numbers.

They sing "Merry Twist-Mas", which was released over Christmastime 1961, though no chart produce a result ensued.

This Annette Funicello dispatch Frankie Avalon movie, about span millionaire who sets out play-act prove his theory that realm pet chimpanzee is as percipient as the teenagers who apply out on the local sands where he is intending match build a retirement home nevertheless ends in hilarious results, too included two of The Marcels, Gene Bricker and Cornelius Repeat.

They provided backing vocals champion two songs, Avalon's "Gimme Your Love Yeah Yeah Yeah" bear Little Stevie Wonder's "(Happy Feelin') Dance And Shout".

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