Our Love Is a Vow / Walkie Talkie Baby - Levee Songsters CD

Originally released as by the Teen tones in 1958, "Our Love Is a Vow" was reissued in 1959 as by the Levee Songsters even though the vocal groups were one and the same and the same master was used for both releases. To make matters more confusing, the Brooklyn based group was better known as the Mello Harps and the original group - Daniel Elder, Bobby Hawkins, Ron Fox, Arnold Malone, and Vernon Staley - cut their first version of "Love is a Vow" for Morty Crafts Do Re Mi label in 1955. Presented here is the ultra rare 1959 release featuring "Our Love Is a Vow" on the "A" side and "Walkie Talkie Baby" on the flip. Finally available in the digital domain, the original 45 issue has been newly remastered.Additional Info: The last of the original Archies albums, 1971's This Is Love is the weakest of the lot. By this point, the principals of the project were more interested in other jobs; Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, who had previously been executive producer Don Kirshner's primary collaborators, had already skived off to focus on Kim's solo career, contributing only "Together We Two," a Ron Dante and Toni Wine duet that sounds like an outtake from one of the earlier albums. Even odder, the characters from the Archies cartoons are nowhere to be seen on the sleeve, nor are they mentioned in the liner notes. However, despite a higher-than-usual ratio of trash to treasure (the first couple of Archies albums are surprisingly strong for the same reason that the first four or five Monkees albums tended to be excellent: they needed a higher number of potential hits to feature in the TV show), This Is Love is not entirely dismissible. The title track is slight but charming, and the countrified "Should Anybody Ask" has the psychedelic cowboy charm of one of Michael Nesmith's more fanciful tunes. Then there's the four-minute throwaway jam "What Goes On," unfortunately not a bubblegum cover of the Velvet Underground's similarly titled classic but co-producer Richie Adams' Vietnam commentary, which is about as interesting and insightful as one might expect. For hardcore bubblegum fans only. ~ Stewart Mason

Specifics

  • Album: Our Love Is a Vow / Walkie Talkie Baby
  • Artist: Levee Songsters
  • Label: Essential Media Mod
  • Genre: Rock
  • MPN: none
Tracklist

1. Our Love Is A Vow
2. Walkie Talkie Baby

(CD-894231522529)

SKU CD-894231522529
Barcode # 894231522529
Brand Essential Media Mod
Shipping Weight 0.0710kg
Shipping Width 0.140m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.140m

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