BILLY WARD & the DOMINOES / Original UK 10" Vinyl
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Billy Ward & the Dominoes - Billy Ward & the Dominoes featuring Clyde McPhatter
Parlophone PMD-1061 United Kingdom 1958
Sleeve: Excellent
Vinyl : Excellent
A wonderful copy of this legendary UK 10" Doo-Wop rarity! The sleeve is Excellent with only very minor ringwear and miniscule scuff marks on the back - the vinyl looks almost unplayed!
The Dominoes (also sometimes known as Billy Ward & the Dominoes) had one of the finest musical pedigrees of any R&B vocal group of the 1940s, at least based on its founder's training and experience. Billy Ward (born September 19, 1921, Los Angeles) had a minister father and a musician mother, and was a musical prodigy as a child, schooled in classical music theory and composition as well as performance. Following his military service during World War II, Ward studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he later became a voice coach. It was from the ranks of his ex-students that he recruited the original members of the Dominoes: Clyde McPhatter as lead singer, Charlie White (tenor), Joe Lamont (baritone), and Bill Brown (bass).
What made the Dominoes special, besides the excellent arrangements and McPhatter's unique voice, was their appeal beyond the usual racial lines of demarcation. They were huge in the black community, but they were also one of a relative handful of R&B acts that developed a small but fiercely loyal following among younger white listeners as well during the early '50s, which helped plant a seed that blossomed into the full-blown rock & roll boom four years later.
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