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Released ONE KISS CAN LEAD TO ANOTHER: A labor of love from Sheryl Farber and co-producer Gary Stewart, ONE KISS follows in the tradition of Rhino's revelatory, genre-defining boxed sets like Nuggets, Beg, Scream & Shout: The Big Box Of '60s Soul, and Loud, Fast & Out Of Control: The Wild Sounds Of '50s Rock by bringing listeners dozens of shoulda-been-classics. And Rhino has given this boxed set the kind of over-the-top packaging it deserves. ONE KISS CAN LEAD TO ANOTHER: GIRL GROUP SOUNDS, LOST & FOUND comes in a mod black-and-white hatbox, while the four digipak CDs inside resemble '60s makeup compacts, and the book, which contains essays by Gerri Hirshey and Gene Sculatti and a track-by-track by Sheila Burgel, looks like a girl's diary. The TOYS are featured on
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Embellished with a piano "thunderstorm" intro that neatly prefigured the "rain" in the opening lyrics, "A Lover's Concerto" updated Johann Sebastian Bach's "Notebook For Anna Magdalena Bach, Minuet In G," a five finger piano exercise. One also hears echoes of the Supremes' "Back In My Arms Again." "A Lover's Concerto" was certified Gold by the RIAA on December 17, 1965. The January 29, 1966 Record World had a photo of Bell-Amy-Mala president Larry Uttal presenting the Gold Record Plaque to June Monteiro and Barbara Harris. The headline: "Gold Toys." The Toys' "A Lover's Concerto" appeared in the film Mr. Holland's Opus. Check out cover versions of "A Lover's Concerto" by the Bob Crewe Generation (dynoVoice 237), the Hutch Davie Convention (dynoVoice 904), Mrs. Miller (Capitol 5640B, April 1966, Billboard #95), Sarah Vaughan (Mercury 72543, March 1966, Billboard #63), the Vogues, Enoch Light, the Soulful Strings, Horst Jankowski, Ronnie David and Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. The Toys Sing A Lover's Concerto and Attack! LP (dynoVoice 9002, January 1966) peaked at #92 in Billboard.
In April 1966, the Toys released "Can't Get Enough Of You Baby," Copyright June 28, 1965, on dynoVoice 45. The song had first been recorded by the Four Seasons. ? (Question Mark) and the Mysterians and Smash Mouth also released versions.
The urban splendor of "(On) Back Street" ("Where all the swingin' hippies make the scene") evoked "Nowhere To Run" AND "Dancing In The Street" by Martha and the Vandellas. "You know you can't let yourself go / With that stranger you meet / On Back Street."
The Toys performed "A Lover's Concerto" on NBC-TV's Hullabaloo on October 25, 1965 (see Hullabaloo Volume 8, MPI video, 1996). The Toys also appeared on ABC-TV's Shindig, toured with Gene Pitney and played countless dates with major artists.
On November 17, 1965, the Toys, Dave Clark Five and Barbarians rocked the Island Gardens auditorium in West Hempstead, NY.
In April 1966, the Toys delivered a scorching 30 minute set at NYC's Phone Booth discotheque. Variety: "The Toys are a pleasant group. Their harmonies are good and they have the feel of the youthful dances. The kids are individually good singers. They prove this by alternating the lead amongst themselves. However, their forte is still as an act, rather than a dance group."
After a promo tour of England, the Toys worked up a Sid Shaw-arranged nightclub act that premiered at the San Su San in Mineola, NY. The March 1967 issue of Teen's Top Ten (released November 10, 1966) declared: "With four hits in a row, these chicks are the tuffest competition the Supremes have." Intimidated, the Supremes covered "A Lover's Concerto" on the I Hear A Symphony LP.
Signed to Philips in late December 1966 (Billboard January 7, 1967), the Toys appeared in the April 1967 cinematic triumph It's A Bikini World (England: The Girl In Daddy's Bikini). According to Linda J. Sandahl's Rock Films (1955-1986) PN 1995 .9 .m86 .s260, the Toys performed "All's Fair In Love and War" in the film. Marshall Crenshaw's book disagrees. Philips singles: "Ciao Baby" / "I Got Carried Away" 40432 Billboard review February 25, 1967 "My Love Sonata" / "I Close My Eyes" 40456 Billboard review May 13, 1967. "Ciao Baby" (English-Weiss) was also recorded by Lynne Randell (Epic 5-10147) and the Montanas (Pye 7N 17282).
In 1968, the Toys released two singles on Musicor: "You Got It Baby" /"You've Got To Give Her Love" 1300 "Sealed With A Kiss" / "I Got My Heart Set On You" (B. Toomer-B. Harris-G. Redd) 1319
On film, stage or disc, the Toys were the embodiment of 60's Pop / Soul.
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1. Can't Get Enough Of You Baby 6732
2. Deserted
3. See How They Run (Stereo)
4. Hallelujah (Stereo)
5. I Got A Man
6. A Lover's Concerto 6502
7. What's Wrong With Me Baby (Stereo)
8. Yesterday
9. Baby's Gone (Stereo)
10. This Night 6503
11. On Backstreet (Stereo) 6691
12. Attack
13. Baby Toys 6839
14. May My Heart Be Cast Into Stone 6690
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15. Silver Spoon 6731
16. Happy Birthday Broken Heart 6840 The Toys' Musicor tracks "You Got It Baby" and "You've Got To Give Her Love" appear on Quartet Of Soul, Volume 3 Musicor LP 3152. The Toys' Musicor track, "Try To Get You Out Of My Heart" appears on Kiss And Tell Ace CD CHD 330. The Toys' Musicor track, "Let Me Down Easy" appears on Where The Girls Are, Volume Two Ace CD CHD 711, June 1999. "Now I belong to you / From this day until forever/ Just love me tenderly / And I'll give to you / Every part of me."
BARBARA HARRIS: BARBARA NOW 1. It's What You Do 2. I Can't Wait To See You 3. If It's Not So 4. I'm Going Home 5. I Need Your Love So Bad 6. The Real Me 7. Levi 8. Let's Go Do It Up 9. I'll Wait For The Day 10. I Found Someone
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JESSICA JAMES AND THE OUTLAWS LOU CHRISTIE sang back-up on the chorus of WE'LL BE MAKIN' OUT (© May 13, 1966) JESSICA JAMES AND THE OUTLAWS (= Denise Ferri, Bernadette Carroll and Peggy Santiglia) sang back-up on most Lou Christie MGM recordings including RHAPSODY IN THE RAIN (recorded January 8, 1966) which was BANNED in March 1966 because of the line "We were makin' out in the rain." The drummer on "We'll Be Makin' Out" plays several fills that recall Lou Christie's TRAPEZE.
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THE GIRL WATCHERS
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MITCH RYDER Bob Crewe Presents New Voice LP 2000
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Mitch Ryder Cash Box 9 December 1972 New York-- The newly formed Virgo Records label has just acquired the tapes of the dynoVoice and New Voice labels formerly owned by Bob Crewe. Morris Levy, president of Roulette, recently made a US distribution deal with Virgo. Virgo single VO-6026 Virgo Records, A Division of Suellen Productions, Inc, 598 Madiison Ave, NY, NY 10022 Million Seller single 209
Bob Crewe Presents
Disc One (79:15): 01. A Lover's Concerto
02. This Night
03. Ski-ing In The Snow
04. Concrete And Clay (Stereo)
05. Soupy
06. Hallelujah
07. Written On The Wall
08. (Look For The) Rainbow (Stereo)
09. What's Wrong With Me Baby
10. Why Did My Baby Turn Bad
11. The Train
12. Billy Knows
13. Give Her Up (Baby)
14. Come Closer
15. Attack
16. See How They Run (Alternate Album Version) Stereo
17. Baby's Gone (Stereo)
18. The Company You Keep
19. Words
20. Happy Birthday Broken Heart
21. Life Of The Party
22. Too Good To Be Bad
23. Please Stay With Me
24. Walkin' My Cat Named Dog
25. Ski-ing In The Snow
26. May My Heart Be Cast Into Stone
27. On Backstreet (Stereo)
28. Can't Get Enough Of You Baby
29. Silver Spoon
30. Baby Toys Disc Two (77:51):
01. Jenny Take A Ride (Stereo)
02. The Slow Fizz (Stereo)
03. Little Latin Lupe Lu (Stereo)
04. I Hope (Stereo)
05. We'll Be Makin' Out
06. Thinkin' About You Baby
07. Down
08. I'm Not A Fool
09. (When She Needs Good Lovin') My Baby Comes To Me
10. Love, Love My Friend
11. Music To Watch Girls By (Stereo)
12. Time Marches On
13. Isn't It Just The Shame
14. Bread
15. If You Loved Me Baby
16. Medley: Devil With A Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly (Stereo)
17. Warm Smoke
18. Down By The Ocean
19. Sock It To Me-Baby! (Stereo)
20. Run, On The Run
21. One Grain Of Sand
22. What Now My Love (El Maintenant) (Stereo)
23. Blessing In Diguise
24. The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)
25. The Feeling Of Love (Uncredited)
26. Mushroom City
27. Barbarella
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