Eddie My Love [Import]

Teen Queens | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 6, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ace Records UK
• ASIN: B0000082OI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,338 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Eddie My Love

2. Red Top

3. All My Love

4. Billy Boy

5. Zig Zag

6. Until The Day I Die

7. Love Sweet Love

8. Just Goofed

9. Rock Everybody

10. Baby Mine

11. So All Alone

12. Teenage Idol

13. Let's Kiss

14. Riding

15. No Other

16. Rock Everybody (Alt.)

17. Two Loves And Two Lives

18. I Miss You

19. My Heart's Desire

20. No Other (Alt.)

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Comprehensive Collection Of Their RPM Material Around, June 20, 2011

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eddie My Love (Audio CD)

The second this hit the market it became the best compilation you'll find anywhere on one of the pioneers of the R&R Era "Girl-Group Sound" simply by the fact it comes from Ace Records of the U.K., only the best in the business when it comes to thoroughness, sound quality and background details when dealing with oldies music.

Following the October 1954 and April 1955 success of Shirley Gunter And "The Queens" with Oop Shoop for the small Flair subsidiary of the LA-based Modern Records owned by the Bihan Brothers, and The Hearts with Lonely Nights for the New York City-based Baton label, the sister duo of Betty and Rosie Collins, whose brother Aaron was a member of The Cadets/Jacks, made history by becoming the first black girl group to enter the Billboard Pop Top 100 with Eddie My Love (written by brother Aaron) which hit # 2 R&B and # 14 Top 100 in early 1956 for the RPM subsidiary of Modern, also owned by the Bihan Brothers, finishing in a tie with The Chordettes cover for Cadence and just back of The Fontane Sisters [# 11] cover for Dot.

That would be their only hit single, a fact caused partly by some mediocre follow-up material and more probably by the limited promotional funds available to the Bihans whose "empire" included Modern, Flair, Crown, United/Superior, Yuletide and Meteor, the last of which operated out of Memphis, and the need to pick and choose whose RPM records they would push from among artists such as B.B. King, The Jacks, Johnny "Guitar" Watson and Richard Berry.

Here, Ace gives you all their RPM singles which were as follows: from 1956 - So All Alone/Baby Mine (RPM 460); Billy Boy/Until The Day I Die (RPM 464); Red Top (a cover of a song first made popular as an instrumental in 1947 - # 3 R&B - by tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons & His Sextet on Mercury 8048, and then # 3 R&B again in 1953 as a vocal offering by King Pleasure [Clarence Beeks) & Betty Carter with The Charlie Ferguson Band on Prestige 45-821)/Love Sweet Love (RPM 470); from 1957 - Rock Every Body/My Heart's Desire (RPM 484); and I Miss You/Two Loves And Two Lives (RPM 500).

The sisters also had two LPs released by the Crown subsidiary, the first - Crown CLP-5022 "Eddie My Love" in 1957 which contained some of the foregoing singles together with Teen Age Idol and Zig Zag, presented here, and the second - Crown CLP-5373 - in 1963 which repeated some of those sides along with Let's Kiss and Riding, also presented here. In addition you get some alternate takes and two short promo sides, spoken words for Mad Lad Koma (Oklahoma City Promotional Spot) and the other for Royal Crown Hairdressing.

After RPM (where there was allegedly another single on RPM 480 called My First Love - details hard to pin down) the girls turned up briefly in 1958 at one of the giants, RCA Victor, where the suits attempted to turn them into pure Pop vocalists by saddling them with junk like You Good Boy - You Get Cookie/Dear Tommy (RCA Victor 47-7206) and First Crush/Movie Star (RCA Victor 47-7396). In 1959 they then moved on to Buck Ram's Antler Records where they cut an "answer" song to Big Jay McNeely's hit, There Is Something On Your Mind called There Is Nothing On My Mind Parts 1 & 2 on Antler 4014 and Politician/I'm A Fool on Antler 4015 and, in 1960, Donny Parts 1 & 2 on Antler 4016 and I Heard Violins/Magoo Can See on Antler 4017.

In 1962, billed as Rosie & Betty, they took a shot at the Twist craze with That Twistin' Feeling/Doodle Doo Doo on Press 45-2805. And that would be it. Bedevilled since 1956 by drugs, Rosie died of an overdose of pills and booze in 1968, and within a few short years Betty passed away as well.

Just a solid compendium of their best at RPM.