Many guides,Catalogues and books have listed to The Alma-Keys as an East Coast group and that they were white.there is something of a "white" sound to their disc_Please Come Back To Me/Jumpin Twist. recorded in February 1962 for Kiski Records.
But The Alma-Keys were a black group from Tarentum,PA. formed by James Mansfield Kemp(First Tenor),Richard Hayden(2nd tenor),Lloyd Daniel Hayden Jr.(Baritone),William Kemp(Bass) and Roland Hayden(Lead/Baritone).To Listen or Download Please visit;http://www.box.net/shared/jqi59kk66h8eyzzlvio0
Or go to Youtube..
In the next weeks I continue with "the white doo wop sound of the black groups " as...
THE BEL AIRES on Decca...
-My Yearbook/Rockin' An' Strollin'.-1958.
Later three members of this Chicago black group were part of The Sheppards.
LISTEN...
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