Mercury Records Collection: MG-20353: The Swinging, Singing Record Session

[ SITE TOP ] ⇒ [ Mercury 20000 Series A ] ⇒ [ 20300-20399 ] ⇒ [ MG-20353 ]

To Site Top
[ English | Japanese ]

Preface

* About Mercury
* About This Site

* Label Varitations
* Matrix Variations
* Innersleeve Variations

* Columns

* blog (not only Merc.)

Mercury Series

* 10000 Series
* 15000 Series (10")
* 20000 Series A
(-20599)
* 20000 Series B
(20600-)
* 25000 Series (10")
* 30000 Series (10")
* 35000/JATP/MGC
* 40000 Golden Lyre
* Living Presence
* 80000 Custom
* 90000 Tono
* PPS Series
* SRM Series
* Demo/Sampler

Subsidiaries

* EmArcy 26000 (10")
* EmArcy 36000 (12")
* EmArcy MGE/SRE
* EmArcy EMS
* Wing 12000
* Wing 12100/16100
* Wing 14000/18000
* Wing 60000
* Limelight
* Philips U.S.
* Fontana U.S.
* Smash
* Blue Rock
* Cumberland
* ...

Compact
(33rpm 7")

* Mercury 200/600
* Limelight 300
* Smash 700
* Fontana 750
* Philips 800/2700

Extended Play
(45rpm 7")

* Mercury EP 3000
* Mercury EP 4000
* Mercury EP 5000
* EmArcy EP 6000
* Wing EP 16000
* Mercury MEP
* Childcraft/Playcraft
* miscellaneous

Singles
(45/78rpm)

* Mercury 2000
* Mercury 3000
* Mercury 5000
* Mercury 6000
* Mercury 8000
* Mercury 8900
* Mercury 11000
* Mercury 70000
* Mercury 89000
* EmArcy 16000
* Limelight
* Wing
* Blue Rock
* ...

Index by Artists

Miscellaneous

Links

MG-20353: The Swinging, Singing Record Session / Del Vikings

Label Type :	black Mercury type A
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG-20353A-1 MS1 B M
	SIDE-B	MG-20353B-1 MS1 B M

Search Del Vikings Record Session Mercury LP at GEMM.com

Comments

Inside The Groove

The famous Doo-Wop group's second album on Mercury.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

The Del Vikings, formed in 1955 and one of the oldest hit makers with a “Doo-Wop” style, has a true classic hitter “Come Go With Me”, released in 1956 from Dot label. Shortly after, they split into two groups, the Dell-Vikings and the (Mercury) Del Vikings, due to several complicated matters. The Mercury Del Vikings left two albums: MG-20314 and MG-20353. Unfortunately both groups, including (Mercury) Del Vikings, didn't come to reach the top of the chart again.

Anyway this album holds even a portion of the finest examples of a good-old Doo-Wop style.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

8 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	15572	The Bit Beat (Fats Domino)	1:55
A-2	16300	Oh Tonight (C. E. Quick)	2:40
A-3	16301	That's Why (I Love You So) (Gordy - Carlo - King)	1:55
A-4	15579	What You Have Do To Me (C. Sagle)	2:53
A-5	15543	The Voodoo Man (C. Quick)	1:45
A-6	16299	Oh I Love You (C. E. Quick)	2:22
SIDE-B
B-1	15571	Oh Baby (C. Carter - J. Hudson)	1:51
B-2	16297	Friendly Moon (C. E. Quick)	2:18
B-3	15929	A Meeting Of The Eyes (Mac Wolfson - Eddie White)	2:03
B-4	15575	There I Go (Falling In Love Again) (C. Quick)	2:28
B-5	15927	Nobody's Kisses But Yours (Burton - Randolph - Pincus)	2:09
B-6	15577	String Along (C. Quick)	2:26

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

The Del Vikings, maybe consisting of:
Clarence Quick (vo), Norman Wright (vo), David Lerchey (vo), Gus Backus (vo), William Blakely (vo), Kripp Johnson (vo).

Orchestra conducted by Carl Stevens.

A-5: Recorded at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, IL in May 1957.
A-1, A-4, B-1, B-4, B-6: Recorded at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, IL in June 1957.
B-3, B-5: Recorded in New York City on September 18, 1957.
A-2, A-3, A-6, B-2: Recorded at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, IL maybe in 1958.