The Colts

Biography

The Colts are best remembered because the group who first recorded “Adorable,” a vintage doo wop tune subsequently included in the Drifters, Small Caesar & the Romans as well as other vocal groups. The Colts produced within the Mojave desert town of Bakersfield, CA, but commuted by car to L.A., where they went to classes at LA City University. The group — Ruben Grundy, his sibling Joe Grundy, Carl Morland, and Leroy Smith — ultimately caught the eye of music business experienced and impresario Samuel “Buck” Memory, who at that time was also handling the Platters as well as the Penguins. In August of 1955, the Colts had been agreed upon to Mambo Information in LA and quickly thereafter documented “Adorable” and its own flipside, “Lip area Red As Wines.” Just because the one (Mambo amount 112) was going to hit shops, however, Memory as well as the label’s repetitions decided which the Mambo name might mistake some individuals and cause them to believe the label highlighted just Latino dance music, therefore the group was shifted to the Vita label rather (Vita amount 112). On the other hand, in NY, Atlantic Information’ Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler acquired noticed the Colts’ “Adorable” and sensed the song ought to be included in their Drifters. It became an ideal tune for the group (their initial without celebrated lead vocalist, Clyde McPhatter, who by this time around had just still left the group). Aided by solid popularity over the Western world Coast, “Lovable” charted from past due Oct into November before getting overtaken in product sales with the Drifters’ edition. In Oct 1955, the Colts produced their initial performance on the 400 Membership in NORTH PARK, appeared on regional Television shows, and shut out the entire year by showing up within a big R&B revue in LA, managed by DJ Hunter Hancock. In early 1956, the Colts’ following one — “Special Sixteen” b/w “Honey Bun” (created on their behalf by Curtis Williams from the Penguins, the author of “Globe Angel”) — premiered (Vita amount 121) and after their following one (“Never FORGET ABOUT” b/w “Hey You Shoo-Be-Doo-Be” (Vita quantity 130), manager Ram memory shifted the Colts to Dot Information. Mickey Lynn, the wife of Johnny Otis Music group vocalist Mel Williams, became a member of the group like a vocalist, but this lineup didn’t produce any produces for Dot. In the summertime of 1957, they released “Sheik of Araby” b/w “Guiding Angel” on Buck Ram’s Antler label, but right now, Ram memory was focusing on the world-wide success from the Platters. The Colts disbanded soon thereafter. By Dec of 1961, the music “Adorable” was still popular, when Small Caesar as well as the Romans documented it for his or her just full-length LP, Those Oldies but Goodies (DFLP 1218) which includes a fine edition with vocals by Carl Barnett.

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