ARLENE SMITH & THE CHANTELS Eponymous 3 LP BOX SET-ONE OF THE 1ST GIRL GROUPS
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Jun 20, 2020
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ARLENE SMITH & THE CHANTELS Eponymous 3 LP BOX SET-ONE OF THE 1ST GIRL GROUPS
A MINT 3 LP BOXED SET ON MURRAY HILL 000385FROM 1987 A BEAUTIFULLY ISSUED BOXED SET WITH BOOKLET
39 FABULOUS DOO WOP AND EARLY R&B TRACKS
WITH THE ORIGINAL 8 PAGE BOOKLET AS SHOWN WITH DETAILED LINER NOTES AND PHOTOGRAPHS
TRACKS AS SHOWN ON THE LABEL PHOTOS
BACKGROUND INFO FROM ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
One of the very first girl groups, the Chantels are best-known for their 1957 hit "Maybe." Between 1957 and 1963, the trio racked up a number of hit singles, but none of them were ever as popular as "Maybe," which came to be regarded as one of the definitive singles of the genre.All five members of the Chantels -- Arlene Smith, Lois Harris, Sonia Goring, Jackie Landry, and Rene Minus -- met as children, when they sang in the choir of Saint Anthony of Padua, a Bronx-area school. Arlene Smith was the leader of the quintet. Smith wrote all of the group's early material and she was the one who convinced the other girls -- whose age ranged between 14 and 17 at the time -- to audition for Richard Barrett, a record producer and a member of the doo wop group the Valentines. Barrett signed the band to End Records and produced the Chantels' first single, a Smith song called "He's Gone." Released in the summer of 1957, the single peaked at number 71. However, the group's second single -- another Smith composition called "Maybe" -- was a smash hit, peaking at number two on the R&B charts and number 15 on the pop charts in early 1958. "Maybe" sold more copies than its chart position suggests; the single was pirated by several other small record labels and none of those sales were tallied for the final chart position.For the next year, the Chantels tried in vain to deliver a follow-up as successful as "Maybe." Two hit singles -- "Every Night (I Pray)" and "I Love You So" -- followed on End Records, but the label dropped them after a handful of other records failed to make an impact. Around that time, Smith left the group to pursue a solo career and Harris had left the group. The Chantels replaced Smith with vocalist Annette Smith (no relation) and continued as a quartet.....
BOX IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITHOUT ANY CORNER SPLITS. SOME VERY LIGHT RUB WEAR. TOP CENTER EDGE WITH SMALL ROUND CIRCLE OF OLD LABEL GLUE RESIDUE. NOTWITHSTANDING, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, SO PLEASE DO LOOK AT THE COVER PHOTOS TO ASCERTAIN COVER CONDITION.
VIRGIN SPINDLE HOLES. THE HIGH LUSTER VINYL BLANK AT FIRST GLANCE OUT OF THE SLEEVE APPEARS UNUSUALLY PRISTINE AND TO HAVE NOT BEEN PLAYED, MUCH LESS TOUCHED.
THE VINYL BLANKS IN MOST UNUSUALLY FINE UNTOUCHED CONDITION
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