Artist: Arptones

Title: Harptones Collection 1953-61

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2021

Label: Acrobat

UPC: 824046337421

Genre: Soul/R & B

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. A Sunday Kind of Love
2. I'll Never Tell
3. My Memories of You
4. It Was Just for Laughs
5. I Depended on You
6. Mambo Boogie
7. Why Should I Love You?
8. Forever Mine
9. I'll Never Tell
10. Honey Love
11. So Soon
12. Love Me
13. Since I Fell for You
14. Oobidee Oobidee Oo (You're the One for Me)
15. I Almost Lost My Mind
16. Oo Wee Baby
17. Life Is But a Dream
18. You Know You're Doing Me Wrong
19. My Success (It All Depends on You)
20. I've Got a Notion
21. What Is Your Decision
22. Gimmie Some
23. Three Wishes
24. That's the Way It Goes
25. Second Hand Love
26. Symbol of Love
27. Chang Chang a Lang

DISC 2:
1. My Memories of You
2. High Flyin' Baby
3. School Boy
4. The Masquerade Is Over
5. On Sunday Afternoon
6. The Shrine of St. Cecilia
7. Oo Wee Baby
8. What Did I Do Wrong?
9. When Will I Know?
10. Cry Like I Cried
11. So Good So Fine, You're Mine
12. For a Lifetime
13. Laughing on the Outside
14. I Remember
15. Hep Teenager
16. Love Me Completely
17. What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am) ?
18. No Greater Miracle
19. Answer Me My Love
20. Rain Down Kisses
21. All in Your Mind
22. The Last Dance
23. What Will I Tell My Heart
24. Foolish Me
25. Loving a Girl Like You
26. Devil in Velvet
27. Your Love Is a Good Love

The Harptones were one of the many doowop vocal groups to emerge from New York City in the early '50s, and although they did not have an illustrious chart career, they were one of the most consistently admired and popular groups, both with the contemporary market of the times and with doowop fans and critics in more recent years. With the distinctive tenor voice of Willie Winfield almost always to the fore, they produced a string of polished and classy performances on record through the 1950s, hampered in their search for chart success by recording for a variety of small and under-resourced record companies. This great-value 54-track 2-CD set comprises A and B sides of singles for the Bruce, Essex, X, Paradise, Andrea, Rama, Gee, Tip Top, Domme, Warwick, Coed, Companion and Cub labels during this era, and features their best-known recordings such as "A Sunday Kind of Love", "Why Should I Love You?", "Life is But a Dream", "The Shrine of St. Cecilia", and "What Will I Tell My Heart". As well as their own recordings it includes performances with Bunny Paul, The Woodside Sisters, Mabel King, Raoul Cita Chorus, Ruth McFadden, Carol Blades and Valli Hilton, on which they were either named featured artists or backing vocalists. It's a worthy showcase for one of doowop's most stylish exponents.