20 FAVE DUETS FROM .......1956

20 FAVE DUET RECORDS
TODAY........FROM 1956
1. LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL – SHIRLEY & LEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj1yV0K4q1g
Their biggest and most remembered hit--#20 BBpop and #1BBr&b. On Aladdin
(US) and Vogue (UK)
2. COUNTRY BOY – FREDDY KING (MARGARET WHITFIELD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oVDH-pflvA
Freddy’s debut with a duet on the tiny El Bee label. Robert Lockwood Jr
on guitar Billy “The Kid” Emerson on piano
3. I FEEL GOOD – SHIRLEY & LEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh6HHlygS0o
Sprightly rocker that was the immediate followup to “Let The Good Times
Roll” . Peaked at #38 BBpop #3 BBr&b
4. JUST WON’T DO RIGHT – JAMES BROWN (BOBBY BYRD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJeQIUQst4U
Some sources have 1957 on this but its reviewed so very early in January
that year it has to be late 1956 release
5. I’LL BE SPINNING – JOHNNIE & JOE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ej7uK0K8y0
Their debut record on J&S label initially then released on Chess a month
or so later
6. NO GOOD LOVER – MICKEY & SYLVIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1s8VTiBy2c
Their first on the Groove label several months before “Love Is Strange”
(I like this one better too 😊)
7. REAL GONE PARTY – RUTH & AL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RZVCQr0HYg
Solid New Orleans bouncer on Imperial from the songwriting duo Ruth
Durand and Al Reed
8. YOU’RE MINE – ROBERT & JOHNNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXby-pWB5dI
Only their second record for Old Town but one of their very best!
9. I BELIEVE IN YOU – ROBERT & JOHNNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo_zA-Xkkyo
Their excellent debut release on Old Town with a song that was reissued
again in 1958—charting this time at #93 BBpop
10. ABSENT MINDED – CLAY HAMMOND & JOHNNIE YOUNG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isEQAdZ09_M
West Coast artist Hammond who recorded with Young (who became Little
Johnny Taylor) and penned his “Part Time Love” hit
11. NOW YOU HAS JAZZ – BING CROSBY & LOUIS ARMSTRONG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26TIfLT-1Xk
A highspot of one of my very favorite musical movies---1956’s “High
Society” released on a Capitol single
12. LOVE IS STRANGE – MICKEY & SYLVIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HRwX7AH34
Mickey Baker & Sylvia Vanderpool on a Bo Diddley penned song that was a
#11 hit BBpop and #1 BBr&b
13. EDDIE MY LOVE – THE TEEN QUEENS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3ih0bhN8Yc
Betty & Rosie Collins from L.A saw their original outstripped by Fontane
Sisters & Chordettes pop covers on the BB chart
14. WAKE UP) MISS RIP VAN WINKLE – THE TIBBS BROTHERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvy_te0TKMc
On Atco label the rockin’ Tibbs Brothers duo of Columbus Ohio with their
memorable ode to a female Van Winkle
15. THAT’S WHAT I’LL DO – SHIRLEY & LEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWQr2bMNFjE
Not to be confused with the later “That’s What I Wanna Do” this was
their first record on Aladdin of 1956
16. BOM BOM LULU – GENE & EUNICE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JF-6tgHKIQ
One of their best for Aladdin from December 1956---but ‘twas 1959 (!!!)
before Vogue released it here in UK
17. DONE GONE – GEORGE & EARL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZVaEnugwZg
Here’s a 1956 rockabilly number that was hugely popular with the regular
crowd that frequented Moondog’s
18. COOL DOWN MAME – THE FARMER BOYS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCNNE3snawc
Another RAB I first heard on the Capitol Rockabillies LP in 1977. Liked
it a lot from first hearing,nothing has changed
19. WELL DID YOU EVAH – BING CROSBY & FRANK SINATRA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kq1JQUhwVQ
Another memorable duet from “High Society”---this duo sang together a
few times on TV but IIRC this is the ONLY time in a movie
20. CHECK YOURSELF – TONY & BARBARA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZP6rimwdgQ
On the West Coast Ultra label Tony “Nite Owl” Allen & Barbara Jackson
with a cool rockin’ duet. Reissued on Dig
BUBBLING UNDER
I’M NOBODY’S FOOL – PIANO RED w. BERTHA COLBERT
LATCH ON – THE COCHRAN BROTHERS (UNRELEASED)
THE SUN KEEPS SHINING – THE EVERLY BROTHERS
HOOTCHY-KOOCHY – GENE & EUNICE
KNOXVILLE GIRL – THE LOUVIN BROTHERS