The Crests Sing All Biggies
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May 15, 2016
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Description
Cool sounding songs. Seems like this is a pretty sought after record.
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Discography about COED
LPC-901 - The Crests Sing All Biggies - Crests [2/60] Issued in mono only. Label is yellow with black printing. Earth Angel/Good Golly Miss Molly/My Special Angel/Six Nights A Week/Butterfly/16 Candles//The Angels Listened In/A Rose And A Baby Ruth/I Remember (In The Still Of The Night)/Party Doll/Silhouettes/Tweedlee Dee
The first Coed album label was yellow with black print, with "COED" at the top of the label, which was used for the first album, LPC-901. Advanced pressings of that album are known to have labels with the same design, but using red with black print.
The Crests were the most successful of Coed's artists, and even though the Rivieras had national success before they did, the Crests were actually the first group to have a record on Coed ["Pretty Little Angel"/"I Thank the Moon", Coed 501, issued June, 1958]. The group was formed in Brooklyn in 1955 and by the time they signed with Coed, had already had a New York hit with "Sweetest One" [Joyce 103] in 1957. At that time, the group consisted of Johnny Mastrangelo [Johnny Mastro or Maestro], Harold Torres, Talmadge Gough, J.T. Carter, and Patricia Van Dross. Van Dross, a 15-year-old girl at the time, was not allowed to sign with Coed due to her age, so the Crests became a quartet. Van Dross was the older sister of future soul star Luther Vandross. The Crests hit it big with "16 Candles" [Coed 506], which reached #2 nationally and has been a perennial "oldie" heard on the radio ever since. They followed it with eight more top 100 hits by the end of 1960. These included "Six Nights a Week" [Coed 509], "Flower of Love" [Coed 511], "The Angels Listened In" [Coed 515], "A Year Ago Tonight" [Coed 521], "Step By Step" [Coed 525], "Trouble In Paradise (Calling All Angels)" [Coed 531], "Journey of Love" [Coed 535], and "Isn't It Amazing" [Coed 537]. Maestro left the group at the end of 1960 and had three additional hits as a solo artist: "Model Girl" [Coed 545], "What A Surprise" [Coed 549], and "Mr. Happiness" [Coed 552]. Maestro eventually formed a rock ensemble called the Brooklyn Bridge, who had several more hits in the late 1960s.
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