THE SLADES_You Cheated

The group met at McCallum high School in Austin,Texas,where they began
singing in 1957 as The Spades;Don Burch(Lead),Tommy Kasper,Jimmy Williams and Jimmy"John"Goeke.

As The Spades they recorded one single for Domino Records_Baby/You Mean Everything To Me.(later re-released on Liberty Records).

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In July of 1958 the group released as The Slades a original song_You Cheated. written by Don and charted # 42 nationally.

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Ironically a black group The Shields covered this song for Tender Records and charted # 12 nationally.


In 1959 they recorded an answer song called "I Cheated" where they backed a female singer
named Joyce Harris(see in this blog).

Late efforts by The Slades to break the charts with sound-a-likes to their only hit quickly disappeared without any further success.

As a trio the group backed to Ray Campi on his Domino recordings and stayed with Domino Records until 1960 where backed to domin'o artists as Joyce Webb(see in this blog)

For complete information about this group visit;

http://www.colorradio.com/Slades.htm