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The Mills Brothers ad in The Film Daily, 1932. The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed The Four Mills Brothers and originally known as Four Boys and a Guitar, [1] were an American jazz and traditional pop vocal quartet who made more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records.
Meet the Mills Brothers (Decca, 1953) Four Boys and a Guitar (Decca, 1954) Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers (Decca, 1954) Singin' and Swingin' (Decca, 1956) Memory Lane (Decca, 1956) One Dozen Roses (Decca, 1957) The Mills Brothers in Hi-Fi: Barbershop Ballads (Decca, 1958) In a Mellow Tone (Vocalion, 1958) Mmmm...The Mills Brothers (Dot ...
The Mills Brothers; Domenico Modugno (Italy) Russ Morgan; Maurice Rocco; Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band; Les Paul and His Trio; The Peppermint Rainbow; Artie Shaw; Ethel Smith; The Spokesmen; Morris Stoloff/Columbia Pictures Orchestra; The Surfaris; Sylvia Syms; Debbie Taylor; The Tyrones; The Weavers; The Who; Wishbone Ash; Victor Young ...
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis after his acquisition of a gramophone manufacturer, The Decca Gramophone Company. It set up an American subsidiary under the Decca name, which became an independent company just before the Second World War. The American spin-off became a subsidiary of MCA Inc. in 1962. [1]
The recording by The Mills Brothers was released by Decca Records as catalog number 18599. It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on June 22, 1944, and lasted 20 weeks on the chart, peaking at number one. The Mills Brothers version also reached number five on the Harlem Hit Parade. [6]
The artists signed by Kapp included Crosby, Cab Calloway, the Mills Brothers, the Boswell Sisters, and Mildred Bailey. Kapp sold Brunswick's British franchises to stockbroker Edward R. Lewis, who owned the English Decca Company. Two years later, when a deal to buy Columbia Records fell through, the pair instead started Decca Records. Crosby's ...
The recording by The Mills Brothers was released by Decca Records as catalog number 18599. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on September 21, 1944, and lasted three weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 8 [2] (a two-sided hit, backed by "You Always Hurt the One You Love"). It also topped the R&B charts. [3]
"Don't Be a Baby, Baby" is a song written by Howard Steiner and Buddy Kaye, performed by The Mills Brothers, and released on the Decca label (catalog no. 18753-A). It peaked at No. 3 on Billboard magazine's race records chart and spent eight weeks on that chart. [1] It also reached No. 12 on the pop chart.