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My copy is on Forum Records. The vinyl is excellent. I think you can hear very minor hints of it being vinyl but very nice, considering the age. The music is kind of a late 50's goofy treat.
01 jo-ann.mp3
02 your love.mp3
03 darling it's wonderful.mp3
04 substitute for love.mp3
05 magic shoes.mp3
06 while the record goes round.mp3
07 beep beep.mp3
08 the day i died.mp3
09 give me another chance.mp3
10 lovable.mp3
11 intimate.mp3
12 don't go home.mp3
Stolen from Wikipedia:
The Playmates, Donald Claps (a/k/a Donny Conn) drummer and lyricist,
Carl Cicchetti (a/k/a Chic Hetti) pianist music composer and Morey Cohen
(a/k/a Morey Carr) lead vocalist were an instrumental and vocal trio
all from Waterbury Connecticut and in the early-1950s at the
University of Connecticut, After graduation began touring
The USA and Canada small lounges and night clubs in 1952 originally as the "Nitwits" later as the Playmates.
Signed to
Roulette Records in 1958 as the label's first vocal group,Anticapting
a Calypso craze the group recorded an album called Playmates Visit the
West Indies. They then released two notable top 40
singles — "Jo-Ann" and "Don't Go Home" — before having a surprise #4
hit (July 9, 1958) with the tempo-changing
novelty record "Beep, Beep" - which became a regular spin for
Dr. Demento.
The "
Beep, Beep" song was on the
Billboard Top 40 chart for twelve weeks. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a
gold disc.
[3] Concurrently with this song,
American Motors (AMC) was setting production and sales records for the Rambler models. Because of a directive by the
BBC that songs do not include
brand names in its
lyrics, a version of "Beep Beep" was recorded for the
European market replacing the
Cadillac and
Nash Rambler with the generic terms
limousine and
bubble car.
They followed up with a chart listing single in 1959 with "What Is Love" and then again in 1960 with "Wait For Me". After four
albums for Roulette, the novelty group — which was known for its between-song
comedy and banter as much for its repertoire — broke up in 1965.
