RARE MONSTER DOO WOP 45 rpm THE PELICANS on PARROT lbl RED VINYL 1953 AURELIA

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RELEASED ON PARROT LABEL. RED VINYL 793 ORIGINAL PRESSING - NOT A RE ISSUE!

Matrix reads A-side, 45 P-53127  298. B-side 45 P-53128 298. Amazing early 1953 R&B, on a few lists top 50 all time rarest records. Songs are AURELIA / WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER. label on A-side has small tearing from label removal. b-side is nice. no writing. vinyl looks nice on both sides with some light scratches, nothing deep, plays nice. a strong vg to low vg+. no wear. guarenteed original or money back!

A vocal group called the Pelicans recorded the same day as Joe Williams and Red Saunders. They were the first doowop ensemble to record for Benson since he launched Parrot as an independent operation. The Pelicans were led by Roger Heard and came from Detroit. Of their four sides recorded on September 28, 1953, two found release at the time: "Aurelia" and "White Cliffs of Dover." "Aurelia" is a deep sounding ballad and it got a few plays in Chicago, Detroit, and New York. There was a real person behind the song, Aurelia Brown. Heard was dating her and put his romantic inclinations into the ballad. His efforts bore fruit because they eventually got married. Regarding "White Cliffs of Dover," the Pelicans became one of the earliest groups during the 1950s to turn this World War II pop icon into an R&B tune. The group's deep vocal stylings to a bongo-driven Latin beat were a pioneering effort at R&B reconstitution—or is that destruction?—of standards."

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