Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs

This R&B vocal group from Lancaster, SC, USA, was led by Maurice Williams (b. 26 Apr 1938, Lancaster, SC, USA; pianist/songwriter). The strike record ‘Stay’, which visited #3 3 R&B and #1 1 play 1960, immortalized the Zodiacs being a one-hit-wonder group. (In the united kingdom ‘Stay’ visited amount 14 in 1961.) Williams, nevertheless, had an extended background before and following the strike, forming his initial group, the Gladiolas, in 1955. Besides Williams (b. 26 Apr 1938, Lancaster, SC, USA), the group comprised Earl Gainey (tenor), William Massey (tenor/baritone), Willie Jones (baritone), and Norman Wade (bass). Their one strike for the Nashville-based Excello Information was ‘Small Darlin’’, which visited amount 11 R&B and amount 41 play 1957. The record was protected with greater achievement with the Canadian group, the Gemstones. In 1960 Williams shaped the Zodiacs, composed of Wiley Bennett (tenor), Henry Gaston (tenor), Charles Thomas (baritone), Albert Hill (dual bass), and Small Willie Morrow (drums). Following the memorable ‘Stay’ the group honoured themselves numerous outstanding compositions, especially ‘I Keep in mind’ (quantity 86 play 1961), ‘Arrive Along’ (quantity 83 play 1961), and ‘Might I’ (1966), but nothing at all close to popular resulted. The second option music was re-recorded in 1969 by Expenses Deal AS WELL AS THE Rhondels who got a high 40 national strike with it. Probably the most regularly remade Williams music was ‘Stay’, that your Hollies in the united kingdom (1963), the Four Months (1964), and Jackson Browne (1978) all positioned on the graphs. Its classic lyric of teenage lust and angst continues to be approved through the years: ‘Well your mama don’t brain, well your papa don’t brain’, resulting in the punch series, ‘Oh gained’t you stay, slightly bit much longer’. During following decades Williams suffered a profession with a fresh band of Zodiacs, playing their traditional catalogue towards the Seaside Music membership circuit within the Carolinas.