Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs - Stay - 1961 Vinyl LP - HLP 1014 - Herald Label
$
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Description
Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs
Stay
HLP 1014
Original 1961 US pressing of Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs' "Stay" LP on the Herald label.
Grading:
Sleeve: VG Solid, shelf-wear, no splits, legible spine
Vinyl: VG- Sounds good, but has scattered light background crackles
Notes:
Originally the Royal Charms, the band changed its name to the Gladiolas in 1957 and the Excellos in 1958, before finally settling on the Zodiacs in 1959. While on the road with the band (after their station wagon broke down in Bluefield, West Virginia), the band came across a British-built Ford car known as the Zodiac (a 'luxury' version of the Ford Zephyr built in Britain, Australia and New Zealand) and changed their name accordingly.
In the early summer of 1959, the band recorded in a Quonset Hut on Shakespeare Road in Columbia, SC. The recording engineer, Homer Fesperman, recorded several tracks that the band had hoped would fetch them a hit. One of the last tracks that they recorded that day was "Stay", a song that Williams had written a couple of weeks before. After taking the demo of "Stay" to Al Silver at Herald Records in New York City, the song was pressed and released in early 1960.
At 1:36, "Stay" is the shortest recording ever to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States.
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