~J. Frank Wilson~
"Last Kiss / That's How Much I Love You"
Rare Label
Only 1000 MadeRare Take
 Vocals
Original


Tamara Records # 761 , 1964  NM

Original Recording:
1st Press  1000 made
 Not the same cut as the Josie label.

 Vocals
J.Frank Wilson
45 RPM Single

  Vinyls are clean with all original luster. Record has very little play time.
Record grades a NM. 
No real flaws to list..
Record plays and sounds terrific. Record has been recorded. 
Both Tamara labels are in at least a VG++ condition with very minor wear. 
 No stickers.   No writing.  
B side is an up beat happier song. Rockabilly cover. 
<<<You won't see a better copy>>>




The history of this record, this artist, this group, is very long winded and rather complicated. To try to make a long story short, this recording (this version) was cut first and was issued on the Tamara record label, while the version found on the Josie 45 was a later take of the song. This version was released first based on an oral agreement with producer Sonley Roush and was starting to take off, when Major Bill Smith sued over the release and in court he pulled out a contract he had with Sonley Roush and he ended up with the master session tape, selling it to Josie Records, who then decided to issue a different take of the song that they felt had more hit potential. Incidentally Josie issued a worse sounding version of the B side on their 45 so that DJ's did not accidentally play the wrong side of the disc. The record became a smash hit and the band saw almost no money from the release of the record. J. Frank Wilson died from alcoholism in 1991 after he could not repeat his success with this record, or even earn a living touring as a one hit wonder. This is a rare version of this recording and I hope you like it.

J. Frank Wilson (December 11, 1941 – October 4, 1991)[1] was an American singer, the lead vocalist of J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers. Wilson was a West Texas Music Hall Of Fame Inductee.[2]

Career[edit]

John Frank Wilson[2] joined the Cavaliers after his discharge from Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas in 1962.

The Cavaliers' first chart hit was "Last Kiss", a song written by Wayne Cochran, who had based the song on a car accident in Barnesville, Georgia, near where he lived.[3]

The song, while only garnering minor success for Wayne Cochran & the C.C. Riders, found major success for the Cavaliers. "Last Kiss" became a hit in June 1964, it reached the Top 10 in October of that year, eventually reaching Number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[3]

In October 1964, the British music magazine NME reported that Wilson had himself been involved in an auto accident near Lima, Ohio, in which his 27-year-old record producer, Sonley Rouch, was killed, and Wilson was seriously injured.[4]

While J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers recorded many more songs,[5] and "Last Kiss" was subsequently covered successfully byWednesday and Pearl Jam, the band charted with only one other song, "Hey, Little One", which reached number 85.

Wilson, with or without the Cavaliers, continued to release records until 1978. He started working offshore oilfield in late 1970s and 1980s in the Gulf of Mexico.

Wilson died on October 4, 1991, at the age of 49, from alcoholism and complications from diabetes.

The history of this record, this artist, this group, is very long winded and rather complicated. To try to make a long story short, this recording (this version) was cut first and was issued on the Tamara record label, while the version found on the Josie 45 was a later take of the song. This version was released first based on an oral agreement with producer Sonley Roush and was starting to take off, when Major Bill Smith sued over the release and in court he pulled out a contract he had with Sonley Roush and he ended up with the master session tape, selling it to Josie Records, who then decided to issue a different take of the song that they felt had more hit potential. Incidentally Josie issued a worse sounding version of the B side on their 45 so that DJ's did not accidentally play the wrong side of the disc. The record became a smash hit and the band saw almost no money from the release of the record. J. Frank Wilson died from alcoholism in 1991 after he could not repeat his success with this record, or even earn a living touring as a one hit wonder. This is a rare version of this recording and I hope you like it.
                                                                 










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