Saturday, June 5, 2010

RICK & THE KEENS_Peanuts

White group from Wichita in North Texas consisted of Richard A. Cook (Lead),John Bland(Guitar),Max Ray Evans,High Alexander and on Piano Cook's Sister (name unknow).


They recorded...

-Peanuts/I'll Be Home. Austin/LeCam/Smash Records-1961.
-Maybe/Popcorn. Smash Records-1961.
-Your Turn To Cry/Tender Years. Jamie/LeCamRecords-1962.
-Be Bop-A-Lula/You Can't Go On. Troy Records-1963.
-Darla/Someone New. Le Cam/TollieRecords-1964.
-Peanuts/You Can't Go. Charay Records-?.
-Hippie!/Cry. Charay Records-?.

LISTEN...

 





In 1961 recorded their version of the 1957 song "Peanuts" of Joe & The Trillers and went number #1 in New York,Los Angeles and Chicago and charted #60 nationally in the summer of 1961 by 8 weeks.this songs was first released locally in Texas by Austin Records later regionally by LeCam Records and finally for the Mercury's subsidiary label Smash Records.with this recording the group have a big popularity and singing in a promotional tour and appear on American Bandstand.



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