The Marcels
The Marcels were an American doo-wop group known for turning popular music songs into rock and roll. The group formed in 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and signed to Colpix Records, with lead Cornelius Harp, bass Fred Johnson, Gene Bricker, Ron Mundy, and Richard Knauss. The group was named after a popular hair style of the day, the marcel wave, by Fred Johnson's younger sister Priscilla.
Career
In 1961 many were surprised to hear a new version of the ballad "Blue Moon", that began with the bass singer saying, "bomp-baba-bomp" and "dip-da-dip." The record sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. It is featured in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
The disc went to number one in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and UK Singles Chart. In the US, additional revivals in the same vein as "Blue Moon"--"Heartaches" and "Melancholy Baby"--were less successful, although "Heartaches" peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and eventually sold over one million copies worldwide.
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The Marcels
ALBUMS
- The Best Of released: 1990
- Blue Moon released: 1961
- The Complete Colpix Sessions released:
The Best Of
Released 1990- Blue Moon
- I'll Be Forever Loving You
- I Wanna Be the Leader
- That Old Black Magic
- Honestly Sincere
- Footprints in the Sand
- Summertime
- Heartaches
- Allright, Okay, You Win
- Goodbye to Love
- Find Another Fool
- My Melancholy Baby
- Sweet Was the Wine
- One Last Kiss
- Friendly Loans
- Crazy Bells
- Blue Heartaches
- Over the Rainbow
The Complete Colpix Sessions
- Blue Moon
- Goodbye to Love
- Loved Her the Whole Week Through
- Peace of Mind
- I'll Be Forever Loving You
- Most of All
- A Sunday Kind of Love
- Two People in the World
- Sweet Was the Wine
- A Fallen Tear
- Over the Rainbow
- Crazy Bells
- Teeter Totter Love
- Hold On
- Footprints in the Sand
- You Are My Sunshine
- Find Another Fool
- Summertime
- Flower Pot
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by The Marcels
Blue Moon
by: The MarcelsBlue Moon, you saw me standing alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.
Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for,
You heard me saying a prayer for,
Someone I really could care for.
And then there suddenly appeared before me,
The only one my arms will ever hold,
I heard somebody whisper "please adore me,"
And when I looked... the moon had turned to gold.
Blue moon, now I'm no longer alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.