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In the spring of 1959, the Mystics recorded the modern South African folk song "Wimoweh" to serve as their debut release on Laurie Records.After Laurie shelved the track as lacking hit potential – the song would in fact become a 1961 #1 hit for the Tokens as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" – the Mystics were set to record the Doc Pomus/ Mort Shuman composition "Teenager in Love".
The Mystics are an American rock and roll group that began in Brooklyn, New York, United States, in the late 1950s. [1] The group was known as The Overons, a quintet that, when signed to Laurie Records, consisted of Phil Cracolici (born 1937, lead), Albee Cracolici (born 1936, baritone), George Galfo (born 1939, second tenor), Bob Ferrante (born 1936, first tenor), and Al Contrera (born 1940 ...
Song [1] Original artist [1] U.S. Pop [2] U.S. R&B [3] UK Singles Chart [4] Other charting versions, and notes [1] 1956 "My Happiness Forever" LaVern Baker - 13 - Written by Doc Pomus "Lonely Avenue" Ray Charles - 6 - Written by Pomus: 1957 "Young Blood" The Coasters: 8 1 - Written by Pomus, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller 1976: Bad Company, #20 pop
"Hushabye", a song recorded by The Mystics; Hushabye, by Hayley Westenra "All the Pretty Little Horses", a lullaby also called "Hush-a-bye"
In 1959, while the Mystics were recording "Hushabye" at their first session, their friend Tony Armato was there cheering them on promoting his own group to their manager, Jim Gribble. Gribble soon signed the Sinceres and renamed them the Passions.
Traynor was the third lead vocalist of the Mystics, singing falsetto on "The White Cliffs of Dover", and lead on "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "Blue Star".Later, he started Jay and the Americans with Kenny Vance and Sandy Yaguda, and was the original lead singer.
The song was written by the songwriting duo Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman commissioned by Laurie Records, originally intended for the doo-wop singing group The Mystics.Laurie Records, however, gave the song to Dion & The Belmonts instead to record, and Pomus and Shuman then quickly wrote another song, "Hushabye" for the Mystics.
In the 1934 collection American Ballads and Folk Songs, ethnomusicologists John and Alan Lomax give a version titled "All the Pretty Little Horses" and ending: 'Way down yonder / In de medder / There's a po' lil lambie, / De bees an' de butterflies / Peckin' out its eyes, / De po' lil thing cried, "Mammy!"' [5] The Lomaxes quote Scarborough as ...