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"Hearts of Stone" was covered and taken to the charts in 1954 by East Coast R&B vocal group the Charms, causing the story of the Jewels' involvement to be ignored by various writers and DJs who assume the Charms' cover was the original. The Charms' version of the song went to number one on the R&B Best Sellers and number fifteen on the pop charts.
The group had further R&B chart success with "Ling, Ting, Tong" and "Two Hearts", and they toured with The Clovers, Big Joe Turner and others. [1] Another song recorded in 1955, written by Rudy Toombs, was "Gum Drop," a single issued on DeLuxe 6090 and labeled by Otis William and the Charms. It was very popular and covered by the Crew Cuts.
Beginning in the summer of 1948, they were featured on his radio and TV show known as The Chesterfield Supper Club and later (1950–1954) as The Perry Como Show. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The trio also did appearances on Chesterfield Sound Off Time when the program originated from New York; however, the television show lasted only one season.
"Two Hearts", [1] or "Two Hearts, Two Kisses (Make One Love)" is a popular song, written by Otis Williams and Henry Stone in 1954. [2] It was originally recorded by Otis Williams and the Charms, it first reached the Billboard R&B chart on March 23, 1955, and lasted 12 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 8.
Television's Greatest Hits: 65 TV Themes! From the '50s and '60s is a compilation album of television theme songs released by Tee-Vee Toons in 1985 as the first volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series. It was initially released as a double LP record featuring 65 themes from television shows ranging from the mid-1950s until the late ...
Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the original radio version and known, in full, as The Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, is a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version ...
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The opening theme song for Como's shows from 1955 to 1963 was "Dream Along with Me (I'm On My Way to a Star)". [3] The closing theme was "You Are Never Far Away From Me". "We Get Letters", composed by Ray Charles , was the musical beginning of the "Sing to me, Mr. C." segment of Como's weekly shows.