The Mello-Harps

Brooklyn-based R&B vocal group the Mello-Harps shaped in 1955. Regarding to Marv Goldberg’s profile in the Apr 1990 problem of Record Enthusiasts’ Once a month, co-founders Arnold “Johnny” Malone (initial tenor), second tenor Joe Gowder, baritone Daniel “Bunny” Elder, and bass Ossie Davis had been longtime friends through the borough’s Bedford-Stuyvesant community. After adding a 5th member, high tenor Vernon Staley, the Mello-Harps started touring the neighborhood nightclub circuit, even though executing at Brooklyn’s Membership Baby Grand they negotiated a administration cope with musician Larry Lucy, who quickly arrived them an archive cope with the Do-Re-Mi label. The Mello-Tones’ gorgeous debut, “Like Is certainly a Vow,” implemented in the fall of 1955. Among the scarcest singles from the doo wop period, it earned small interest upon its first release but later on achieved cult traditional position among R&B aficionados. By year’s end Davis resigned from your lineup, and upon adding bass Bobby Hawkins (the sibling of NBA Hall of Famer Connie Hawkins), the Mello-Harps authorized to Tin Skillet Alley Information to concern their sophomore work, “I REALLY LIKE Just You.” “What Great Are My Dreams” adopted in early 1956, so when the group’s industrial fortunes didn’t improve, Elder exited in the wake of their 4th single, “My Blood loss Heart.” Tenor William Brownish authorized on ahead of trimming a re-recorded “Like Is usually a Vow” for the Rego label. Credited towards the Teen-Tones, the track fared no better the next period around, and Staley was another to carefully turn in his resignation. Tenor David “Sonny” Forte authorized on for 1957’s “Gumma Gumma,” a novelty melody that restored the Mello-Harps moniker. Despite saxophone efforts from the fantastic Ruler Curtis, the solitary proceeded to go nowhere and after an aborted program for Juggy Murray’s Sue label, the group break up in 1959.