The Scooters / Royal Jokers, Really, on Dawn, RARE,1957
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This is a unique hard to find record from the beginnings of Rock n Roll. See history info on this record. Flip side is Someday We'll Meet Again. The record is rated in VG+++ condition. It would have been rated in Near Mint except it has 56 written on one side of label. This is from my own collection, I wish I didnt write on it when I was a teen. Here is history on this famous record. In February 1957, the group's most bizarre recording was released. Remember “Someday We'll Meet Again” that they did on Venus as the Royals back in October of 1954? Well, Dawn Records (a subsidiary of the Latin-music Seeco label) got ahold of it (Dawn's a&r man was Royal Jokers' co-manager Chuck Darwin). In all probability, someone at the pressing plant made a slight error, and it was pressed at the wrong speed. If you play the single at 45 rpm, it sounds like “The Chipmunks sing R&B”. You have to play it at 33 1/3 to hear the Serenaders/Royals. But even if you do that, you have to contend with the label copy: the song is credited to “The Scooters, featuring: Alexander Ames”! The flip, “Really” (also pressed at the wrong speed), isn't by the Serenaders at all (it's credited to “The Scooters, featuring: Little Edna Mae”), although it was written by Maurice King and Chuck Darwin. In fact, no other Scooters records, have anything at all to do with the Serenaders/ Royal Jokers. In September 1957, Dawn released an album (“Rock and Roll Spectacular”), on which “Someday We'll Meet Again” (at the correct speed) was finally credited to the Royal Jokers. MARV GOLDBERG'S R&B NOTEBOOKS The Serenaders/Royal Jokers. Thank you Marv for this info. You should check out his site by googling it. Great history. Buyer pays postage. I accept PayPal. Texas residents ONLY pay 8 1/4% Texas State Tax.
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