Brooklyn – Music AmneZia https://www.musicamnezia.com Remembering Forgotten and not so Forgotten Music Tue, 20 May 2014 00:39:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.musicamnezia.com/?v=5.4.16 1956: The Shells https://www.musicamnezia.com/1950-shells/ https://www.musicamnezia.com/1950-shells/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:05:27 +0000 http://www.musicamnezia.com/1960s-music/1950-shells   Biography The Shells — led by Nate Bouknight (aka “Little Nat”) — scored with a Top 30 hit with “Baby Oh Baby,” charting for the tiny Johnson label in 1957. The group — Bouknight, Randy “Shade Alston (tenor), Bobby Nurse (tenor), Danny Small (bass), and Gus Geter(baritone) — continued to wax impressive 45s into the early […]

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