Basin Street Boys (1945)

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The Basin Street Boys were an American rhythm and blues vocal ensemble that had their greatest success in the late 1940s.

The group Basin Street Boys emerged from a vocal ensemble that Ormonde Wilson had formed in the mid-1940s with Gene Price, Artie Waters and Reuben Saunders. Wilson, who was a close friend of Steve Gibson, remembered his vocal quartet Basin Street Boys , which had become known in the late 1930s for its involvement in music films. Wilson took over the band name for his ensemble, which got a record deal with Exclusive Records in Los Angeles in late 1945 . In early 1946 they worked as a backup singer on recordings of Judy Carroll ( Changes / I Want to Love and Be Loved, Exclusive # 215). After this first session, the tracks Jumpin at the Jubilee / Nothing Ever Happens to Me "(# 225) emerged. Their greatest success was with Ormond Wilson's lead vocals in I Sold My Heart to the Junkman (# 225); the B-side of the Novelty song Voot Nay on the Vot Nay , stylistically based on Slim Gaillard , and was accompanied by Lucky Thompson and his band on her recordings .

In 1947 other titles were created for Exclusive, with which they could not build on the success of Junkman , Summertime Gal , This Is the End of a Dream (# 229), Josephine / I'm Gonna Write a Letter to My Baby (# 239), I'll Get Along Somehow (# 247), Summertime Gal (# 19x) and Near You / You're Mine Forever (# 21x). The Basin Street Boys continued to appear in clubs and on tours of the Theater Owners Booking Association in the late 1940s . In 1948 previously unreleased material was released on Mercury Records under Ormonde Wilson & The Basin Street Boys , If I Can't Have You / Come to Me (Mercury # 8106) and Please Give My Heart a Break / To Make a Mistake Is Human (# 8120 ). After Leon René had discontinued the activities of Exclusive Records in early 1950, they stopped performing, but continued to perform in the northeastern United States until 1951 when Ormonde Wilson broke up the band.

The Basin Street Boys were stylistically based on the singing of the popular ink spots .

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  1. ↑ With Karl George (tp), Eddie Beal (p), Al Norris (git), Charlie Drayton (b) and Stan Levey (dr). See Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 29, 2014)