This Los Angeles group recorded a host of singles on US labels but only ever released one in the UK – Swing Pretty Mama b/w I’d Climb The Hills And Mountains.
Released on Oriole, their sole UK single is now highly collectable and fetches upwards of £500.
The group underwent frequent personnel changes and changed their name in 1959 to The Flares, also later recording under the name The Peppers.
Cornell Gunter had been a vocalist with an early incarnation of The Platters.
Kenneth Byley Vocals Richard Berry Vocals Cornell Gunter Vocals Thomas ‘Pete’ Fox Vocals Beverly Thompson Vocals Obie Jessie Vocals Randy Jones
Vocals George Hollis
Vocals Thomas Miller
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