Remember Then

The Earls | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 1999)
• Original Release Date: September 28, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00000K2MJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,071 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #71 in Music > Pop > Oldies > Doo Wop

Track Listings

1. Remember Then - The Earls

2. Never

3. Cry Cry Cry

4. Eyes

5. I Believe

6. On What a Time

7. I Keep a Tellin' You

8. Ask Anybody

9. Out in the Cold Again

10. Lookin' My Way

11. Don't Forget

12. Remember Me Baby

13. Amor

14. Let's Waddle

15. Kissing

16. Old Man River

17. Our Day Will Come

18. Life Is But a Dream

19. Looking for My Baby

20. All Through Our Teens

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Earls and Larry Chance Help you to Remember Then, January 5, 2002

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oldiesdoowop (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Remember Then (Audio CD)

Larry Chance and The Earls entertaining and brings back the 50's and 60's to life. Great Cd and great entertainers. See them Live if you get a Chance....

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Memories, February 1, 2010

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Patricia A. Powers "topaz_112" (Philadelphia, PA, US) - See all my reviews
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I bought this for my mom after watching a Doo Wop special with her. She loved it! Really brings back memories for her and she has Dementia but she remembers them and how much she enjoyed their music.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Job On A Notable New York City Doo-Wop One-Hit Wonder Group, December 23, 2011

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

This review is from: Remember Then (Audio CD)

If you want all 18 sides of the 9 singles released by The Earls, with quality sound, then this Collectables release is the one. If you don't really care about having all 18 sides and still want quality sound but with much more in the way of liner notes, then the one from Ace of London should be your choice (they only omit one B-side from their initial Rome Records release in 1961).

When lead Larry "Chance" Figueiredo, bass John (Jack) Wray, first tenor Bob Del Din, baritone Larry Polumbo and second tenor Eddie Harder were overhead harmonizing on the street in front of a Bronx, New York subway station entrance by Johnny Powers, who had just launched his small enterprise called Rome Records, he offered to record them - it they forked over those costs related to studio time.

Calling themselves The Hi-Hatters, they soon changed it to The Earls and in 1961 (by which time they had lost Palumbo to an unfortunate army parachute accident) had Life Is But A Dream/Lost Time released as Rome 101, and Looking For My Baby/Cross My Heart as Rome 102. Some sources claim the initial release also came out that year with Whoever You Are as the flip. That's not only hard to confirm, it isn't in either this volume or the one from Ace.

In 1962 they were signed to Hyman Y. Weiss' Old Town label, a leader in recording New York City-area groups since 1953, but whose initial hit single hadn't come until 1`958 when Robert & Johnnie took We Belong Together to # 12 R&B/# 32 Billboard Pop Top 100. Other notables that recorded for Old Town include The Solitaires, Cleftones, Valentines, Royaltones, Supremes (NOT the female Motown group), Co-Eds, Keytones, Fiestas, Capris, Billy Bland, Larry Finnegan and Arthur Prysock.

The Earls' first effort there was the Stan Vincent tune Remember Then which, with its catchy opening sequence, hit the charts in December 1962 and made it to # 24 Pop Hot 100 and # 29 R&B in early 1963 b/w Let's Waddle. However, as with many such Doo-Wop groups from that era, that would be it insofar as a national hit was concerned. For example, among the groups mentioned above, only the Fiestas and Capris had more than one hit for Old Town, while the 5 registered by The Cleftones came with George Goldner's rival Gee label. All, however, did reasonably well on a local sales basis.

So it was that the next 6 Old Town releases by The Earls, some of it great Doo-Wop, never made it on any national charts: from 1963 - Never/I Keep A-Tellin' You (Old Town 1133), Eyes/Lookin' My Way (Old Town 1141), Cry Cry Cry/Kissing (Old Town 1145) and Don't Forget/I Believe (Old Town 1149); from 1964 - Oh, What A Time/Ask Anybody (Old Town 1169); from 1965 - Remember Me Baby/Amor (Old Town 1181). All sides are here, along with several previously-unreleased cuts.

Meanwhile, Chance tried it solo with the tiny Barry Records in 1964, turning out one single, Let Them Talk/Promise Her Anything (Barry 11), which did not chart, before rejoining The Earls where the reformed group cut two 1967 singles, If I Could Do It Over/Papa on Mr. G. 801, and It's Been A Long Time Coming/In My Lonely Room (ABC 11109).