The PELICANS Aurelia PARROT Red Vinyl RARE DOO WOP R&B
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The PELICANS Aurelia PARROT Red Vinyl RARE DOO WOP R&B
Artist: The Pelicans
Title: Aurelia / White Cliffs of Dover
Item: 7" 45
Label: Parrot 793
Condition: Labels: VG+/VG++, minor light wear A-side and a crackle on B-side. Label not loose, still on tight. Record: VG+/VG+, Both sides a strong VG+, nice gloss, clean with just some minor light hairlines, plays great. See our grading scale below.
Comments: Matrix reads A-side, 45 P-53127 298. B-side 45 P-53128 298. Amazing early 1953 R&B, on a few lists top 50 all time rarest records. Fresh from a time warp house in Detroit right around the corner from the 1st Motown records headquarters. See our other auctions for more from this collection.
"A vocal group called the Pelicans recorded the same day as Joe Williams and Red Saunders. They were the first doowop ensemble to record for Benson since he launched Parrot as an independent operation. The Pelicans were led by Roger Heard and came from Detroit. Of their four sides recorded on September 28, 1953, two found release at the time: "Aurelia" and "White Cliffs of Dover." "Aurelia" is a deep sounding ballad and it got a few plays in Chicago, Detroit, and New York. There was a real person behind the song, Aurelia Brown. Heard was dating her and put his romantic inclinations into the ballad. His efforts bore fruit because they eventually got married. Regarding "White Cliffs of Dover," the Pelicans became one of the earliest groups during the 1950s to turn this World War II pop icon into an R&B tune. The group's deep vocal stylings to a bongo-driven Latin beat were a pioneering effort at R&B reconstitution—or is that destruction?—of standards."
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