Description
- Come Go With The Vikings: 1956-61
- Artist: The Del Vikings
- Format: LP
- Release Date: 9/22/2023
- LABEL: Acrobat
- UPC: 824046163129
- GENRE: Soul/R & B
DESCRIPTION
Vinyl LP pressing. The Del-Vikings were the first successful integrated doo-wop vocal group whose hugely promising career was blighted by contractual and personnel issues. Despite this they had major landmark R&B and pop hits like Come Go With Me, Whispering Bells and Cool Shake along the way. As Bruce Eder writes at www. Allmusic. com the story of the Dell-Vikings is one of the most glorious, complicated, and frustrating of any successful doo-wop group in music history. The group consisted of serving members of the US Air Force, who shot to fame with their 1957 R&B No. 2 and pop No. 4 Come Go With Me, which has become a much-played favourite. Subsequent management issues and fractures even resulted at one stage in two different incarnations of the group performing simultaneously – namely The 'Del'-Vikings and The 'Dell'-Vikings to add to the confusion. However, having had further hits they remained active into the '60s. This great LP collection brings together their best releases for a variety of labels – plus selected titles from their Luniverse album The Del-Vikings and their Mercury albums They Sing… They Swing – Del Vikings and The Swinging, Singing Del Vikings Record Session. It naturally includes their hits, which along with their varied work across the years, ranging from pure doo-wop through to rock 'n' roll and arrangements of Great American Songbook standards, underline the fact that they were one of the most talented doo-wop groups of the time.
Tracklist:
- 1
- Come Go with Me
- 2
- How Can I Find True Love
- 3
- When I Come Home
- 4
- Whispering Bells
- 5
- Don't Be a Fool
- 6
- Cool Shake
- 7
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- 8
- I'm Spinning
- 9
- Come Along with Me
- 10
- I'm Sitting on Top of the World
- 11
- Oh Tonight
- 12
- Pretty Little THNGS Called Girls
- 13
- Flat Tire
- 14
- The Sun
- 15
- I Hear Bells (Wedding Bells)
- 16
- Confession of Love
- 17
- An Angel Up in Heaven
