The Cascades

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The Cascades
General information
Genre (s) Doo Wop
founding 1962
resolution 1975
Founding members
John Gummoe (until 1967)
Eddy Snyder
Dave Stevens (until 1963)
Dave Wilson
Dave Zabo

The Cascades was an American doo-wop musical group based in San Diego that existed from 1962 to 1975.

history

The Cascades have their origins in the musical group The Silver Strands, which had their first appearances in San Diego in 1960. She later called herself The Thundernotes, manager and lead singer was guitarist John Gummoe. After the group had released some neglected records by 1961, they signed a contract with the record company Valiant Records, a subcontractor of Warner Bros. In 1962, with the cast John Gummoe (lead singer and guitarist), Eddy Snyder (keyboard), Dave Stevens (bass) , Dave Wilson (saxophone) and Dave Zabo (drums) she took the name The Cascades and released a single in the summer of 1962 called There's a Reason / Second Chance .

While this record only received regional attention, the second Cascades release was already a great success. In the fall of 1962, the single Rhythm of the Rain / Let Me Be was recorded under the direction of producer Phil Spector in the Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles . After its publication in November 1962, the title Rhythm of the Rain started on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 12, 1963 and reached its top listing on March 9 with rank 3. Overall, the song composed and written by lead singer John Gummoe was in the Hot 100 for 16 weeks. Rhythm of the Rain also became a hit internationally . In Great Britain it was ranked 5th, in Canada 1st and in New Zealand it was ranked 2nd. It was the only great success of the Cascades. In 1962, three more titles appeared in the Hot 100, of which The Last Leaf received the best rating with place 60. After that, with Maybe the Rain Will Fall, a Cascade title only returned to the US hit lists in 1969 (61st on Hot 100).

During 1963 Tony Grasso became the new bassist and Roy Lynch took over the keyboard. After three single releases and the long-playing record Rhythm of the Rain (catalog number 405) with Valiant, The Cascades switched to the RCA record company in the summer of 1963 . Of the four singles produced until 1964, only the track For Your Sweet Love was reasonably successful (86th place on Hot 100). After the contract with RCA had expired in the course of 1964, the Cascades changed record companies in quick succession until 1969, without any measurable success. John Gummoe left the group in 1967 after a long illness and embarked on a solo career. From 1968 the group played in the cast Gabe Lapano, Tony Grasso, Eddy Snyder and Dave Wilson. The long-playing record What Goes On Inside was released in-house. In 1969 a two-year contract with UNI Records was signed, under which four singles and the long-playing record Maybe the Rain Will Fall were released. During this time the Cascades began to go on tour more and more. In addition to a major US tour, they performed several times in front of US soldiers stationed abroad. During a North Atlantic tour they came to Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland and Labrador.

In February 1970 Gabe Lapano and in November 1974 Tony Grasso left the Cascades. The end of the group came in 1975.

US singles discography

Rhythm of the Rain
title Cat.No. published
There's a reason / second chance Valiant 6021 1962
Rhythm of the Rain / Let Me Be Valiant 6026 11/1962
Last Leaf / Shy Girl Valiant 6028 4/1963
My First Day Alone / I Wanna be Your Lover Valiant 6032 9/1963
A Little Like Lovin '/ Cinderella RCA 8205 7/1963
For Your Sweet Love / Jeannie RCA 8268 11/1963
Little Betty Falling Star / Those Were the Good Old Days RCA 8321 3/1964
Awake / I Dare You to Try RCA 8402 7/1964
She Was Really Never Mine / My Best Girl CRC 1018 1964
She'll Love Again / I Bet You Won't Stay Liberty 55822 9/1965
Cheryl's Goin 'Home / Truly Julie's Blues Arwin 132 4/1966
Midnight Lace / All's Fair in Love and War Arwin 134 1966
Blue Hours / Hey Little Girl of Mine Smash 2083 1967
Flying on the Ground / Main Street Smash 2101 1967
Two Sided Man / Everyone Is Blossoming Sample 453 2/1969
Maybe the Rain Will Fall / Naggin 'Cries Uni Records 55152 1969
Indian River / Big City Country Boy Uni Records 55169 11/1969
But for Love / Hazel Autumn Cocoa Brown Uni Records 2/1970
April, May, June And July / Big Ugly Sky Uni Records 55231 1970
I started a Joke / Sweet America Can-Base 714 1972

Single chart placements

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK US US
1962 Rhythm of the Rain UK5 (16 weeks)
UK 		US3 (16 weeks)
US
1963 Shy girl - US91 (4 weeks)
US
The Last Leaf - US60 (5 weeks)
US
For your sweet love - US86 (3 weeks)
US
1969 Maybe the Rain Will Fall - US61 (6 weeks)
US

literature

  • Warner, Jay: The Billboard Book Of American Singing Groups. A History 1940-1990 . New York City / New York: Billboard Books, 1992, p. 339.
  • Billboard Magazine , years 1963 to 1972.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK US