ONE SUMMER NIGHT, The Dandleers, (Rare) (AMP 3 #2115) 1958

ONE SUMMER NIGHT, The Dandleers, (Rare) (AMP 3 #2115) 1958 Flipside: WEELIN’ AND A-DEALIN’ – Here is another great ballad from my music collection that I consider to be one of the National Anthems of doowop! The Dandleers/Danleers hailed from Brooklyn, New York. Group members were Jimmy Weston (lead), Johnny Lee (1st tenor), William Ephraim (2nd Tenor), Charles “Nat” McCune (baritone) and Roosevelt Mays (bass). As with countless groups before them, the group honed their sound on the street corners, playgrounds and tenement hallways. They were lucky to meet Danny Webb, a singer/songwriter who had his own group, The Webtones. The Webtones recorded “MY LOVE LOST/WALK TALK AND KISS” (MGM #12724) 1958. Danny Webb became their manager and mentor. He gave them their name ‘The Danleers’ and wrote most of their songs. Their biggest hit written by Webb, this upload of “ONE SUMMER NIGHT”, became The Danleers’ signature song. It charted nationally on Billboard in July 1958 for 13 weeks and r
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