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Beaudaddy's
Vocal Group Harmony Site

Welcome to Beaudaddy's Vocal Group Harmony Site!
Featuring the
"Pioneer Acappella Labels and Groups"

The Real Street Corner Groups

A Pioneer Acappella Group - Sang and Recorded before the Persuasion's 1971 "We Came To Play" Capital LP

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Please contact me
Tommy Mitchell at Mitch@NMMusic.com

if you have any information about the groups on this website

June 2009 Bulletin Board for Street Corner Singers

06/09 - Updated the Five Jades Page - Click on Picture Below

The trailer for the upcoming acappella documentary "Street Corner Harmony". (June 1st, 2009)

Abby Grant of Vintage passed away in May of 2009, after suffering a long illness. Her fight against cancer finally took her life. We have been friends for over 47 years. Besides being a wonderful vocalist,she was a true friend and an exceptional person. She will be missed. - Ray Block 5/09

North Brunswick NJ - Doowop group harmony singers club - consists of doowop singers from the past to the present. We meet once a month in our clubhouse hall. Intentions is to keep the doowop sound alive. To try to find singers for other singers to form groups,or add onto a group. To find a fill in for a group. Just to have fun once a month and harmonize with one another.We also discuss the doowop business.------ Contact Stu Pushkin at doowopstu@hotmail.com

Central NJ - Group harmony singer ( Ray Block) looking to join an established group or group in need of another voice. I can sing the background range from bass to 1st tenor and also lead. My history has been with Vintage,The Adlibs, the Bonaires,East River Drive,Occasionally 5 ,Reunion, and Mixed Company.I live in cental New Jersey and would travel an hour in any direction. You can reach me on 1-908-295-7566 or at: raymondblock@hotmail.com

Westchester NY - Shades of Soul a working r&b acappella group looking for a second tenor /lead singer - experienced only need respond. phone Charles - 914- 461-4385


Some More Street Corner Groups on You Tube Links - Click Here


Pioneer Acappella Groups - w/mp3 - I will be adding more in 2009

Sparrows Quartette
Sparrows Quartette - 1973
1961/74 - Queens NY

 

Five Jades
Five Jades - 1964
1964/09 - Bronx NY

Fourteen Karat Soul
Fourteen Karat Soul
1974/86 - East Orange, NJ
Royal Counts
.Royal Counts - 1966
1962/68 - Jersey City, NJ
Five Sharks
The Five Sharks - 1967

1964/68 - Bronx, NY
Five Fashions
Five Fashions - 1965
1964/65 - Stamford, CT

Currently Performing Acappella and Doo Wopp Groups
(2007-2009)

Cornerstone - 2009
Cornerstone
Wrenditions - 2009
Wrenditions

If you currently perform anywhere in the world send me a picture and your link.

| Ball In The House | Blenders | Bobs | Brooklyn Bridge | Chantels | Chimes | Coats | Crystalairs | Crystals | Davinci's Notebook | Five Sharks | Deep River Quartet | Dells | Demensions | | Duprees | Earls | Encounters | Excellents | 4 Ever Young | Five Boroughs | Five O'Clock Shadow | Flying Pickets | Fourteen Karat Soul
| Fourth Avenue | Freshmen | House Jacks | Imperials w/Anthony | Ink Spots | Larkings | mPact | Nylons | Persuasions | Planotones | Rockapella | Sheps | Showvinistics | Skyliners | Solitaires | Standards | Sweetheart | Take6 | Teenagers | Tokens | Tone Rangers | Tower Of Power | Toxic Audio | Velons | The Chaperones |

 

2009 - Added Two Songs by - The Blue Sky Boys


2008

Doo Wop, 30 Man, 1 Woman, Men's Room Acapella Doo Wop Group
From the Nov. 2007 Cool Bobby B Convention - Lost Wages, NV

Doo Wop in The Desert

New "TIME CAPSULE" Show - Click to the left - WOW!
New "YouTube" Page - Beaudaddy Favorites - Click to the left

Mixed Company on YouTube - Visit New Page
The Ronnie I, Clifton & UGHA Record Labels Page
Retrospect / Image - On Clifton Music Label
The Belaires - PHX, AZ - on YouTube
| The Chaperones |


2007

Cool Bobby B. Convention in Las Vegas - Nov 16-17, 2007

 

I have been music collector of acappella, doo wopp and vocal group harmony for the last 40 years. My collection spans 70 years, from the 1931 Mills Brothers to the current acappella vocal bands featured at the Harmony Sweepstakes. When I first started to listen / collect albums, the groups on the Catamount Records label and the Best of Acappella series on Relic Records were some of my first purchases.   I considered the groups on both these lables as the "Pioneer Groups of Acappella". These were the original "Street Corner Groups" that really sang on the corner, in a candy store, tunnels beneath the highway and railroad tracks, in hallways, in store fronts after 9pm.
Royal Counts on Catamount Persuasions on Catamount Mixed Company on Catamount Vintage on Catamount
In 2004 and 2005 I added the Catamount Records Story - Stan R. Krause and Skippy Jackson - to include The Pioneer Acappella Groups that recorded on the Catamount Record Label in Jersey City, New Jersey. Some of the Catamount Groups contacted me with bios and photos, including past and updated history. So thats how this site started to focus on the early acappella groups. I hope to continue adding bio pages and photos of the other pioneer acappella groups. So, if you were a member of a Pioneer Acappella Group (Those that recorded before the Persuasions reached Capitol Record Label in 1971) or if you have any information concerning a Pioneer Acappella Group that recorded on any record label, please contact me Tommy Mitchell at Mitch@NMMusic.com - send me an email, pictures, updated info on these groups and I will create a webpage for them to recognize their contribution to the history of acappella.
Fourteen Karat Soul on Catamount Records Blue Sky Boys on Blue Sky Metroliners on Catamount Bonaires on Catamount

 

Other Beaudaddy Web Pages

| Hispanic Contribution To Doo-Wop | Manhattan Transfer - 1973 |
| Cousin Scott's Page | Doo Bopps | Caddies | Old Show Posters |
| Doo Wopp Memories | Bim Bam Boom - Flamingos | Cosmos at KUNM | Gus Gossert |

 

 

Ecstacies on UGHA Sharks Quintet on Broadway Bonaires on Flamingo Martells on Relic

 

Vocal tones on Bim Bam Boom Teenchords on Starlight Calvin and the Catamounts on Catamount Shantons on Dot Mar

 

Other Acappella and Doo Wopp Groups Web Sites
(not performing)

| Drifters | Four Fellows | Four Vagabonds | Isidore & Inquistors | Mastertones/Swans |

 

Infernos on Clifton Records Retrospect on Clifton Records Patty and the Street Tones on UGHA Ecstacies on Clifton Records

Some Cool Web Sites

| The Vocal Group Harmony Web Site | Patchy's Doo Wop Drive-In |
| History of Rock Vocal Sound |
| Record Collecting Resources | Alan Freed | Boston Acappella Scene | R&B Revues |

 

 

Buy Acappella and DooWopp Music at:

| Stans Square Records | Clifton Music/UGHA |

also

| Acappella.com | Dead Dog Records | Singers.com | Times Square Records |
| Doo Wop Shoo Bop | Whirlin Disc Records |

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Pioneer Acappella
Labels and Groups

Catamount Records - New Jersey 1963 - 2008
The Catamount Records History
The Groups on Catamount
Concepts
Savoys
Five Fasions
Cordials
Persuasions
Royal Counts
Vintage
Heartaches
14 Karat Soul
Bonaires
Mixed Company
more coming
 

 

Relic Records Label

The Relic Records History

The Groups on Relic
Chessmen
Citadels
Holidays
Youngones
Velvet Angels
Five Jades
Vibraharps
more coming
 

 

Snowflake Record Label
The Snowflake
Records History
The Groups on Snowflake
Excellents
Zirkons
more coming

 

Old Timer Records
The Old Timer
Record History
The Groups on
Old Timer
Versailles
Five Sharks
more coming
 

 

1976-2008
Clifton Records & UGHA Records
The Clifton & UGHA Record Labels History
The Groups on
Relic & UGHA
Ecstasies
Infernos
Retrospect/Image
Reunion
more coming

 

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