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Despite their relatively short career together and an equally limited recording output, The Moonglows were one of the most important and influential doowop vocal groups of the 1950s, their career spanning the years of the rock 'n' roll explosion in pop as well as the time when mainstream pop artists and labels were plundering the R&B charts for potential crossover hit songs. Led by the legendary Harvey Fuqua, who went on to marry Berry Gordy's sister and became a hugely successful writer and producer at Motown, and featuring his long-time colleague Bobby Lester sharing lead vocals, they recorded initially for Alan Freed's Challenge label, before he got them a deal with Chance, and moved to Chess, with whom they scored their biggest success with R&B No. 1 Sincerely, which was covered by The McGuire Sisters to score a pop No. 1. This great-value 56-track 2-CD set comprises the A and B sides of every single they released before they parted company, their music encompassing rocking up-tempo bluesy R&B as well as smooth, immaculate ballads, with beautifully textured harmonies. It naturally features all their chart entries, including the R&B Top 10 hits Most Of All, Sincerely, We Go Together, See Saw, Please Send Me Someone To Love and The Ten Commandments of Love. It's a comprehensive trawl across a brief but significant career.
I Just Can't Tell No Lie
I've Been Your Dog
Baby Please
Whistle My Love
Just a Lonely Christmas
Hey, Santa Claus
Secret Love
Real Gone Mama
I Was Wrong
Ooh Rockin' Daddy
My Gal
219 Train
Sincerely
Tempting
Shoo-Doo-Be-Doo (My Loving Baby)
So All Alone
The Hug and a Kiss
New Gal
She's Gone
Most of All
Foolish Me
Slow Down
Starlite
In Love
In My Diary
Lover Love Me
We Go Together
Chickie Um Bah
See Saw
When I'm with You
Over and Over Again
I Knew from the Start
I'm Afraid the Masquerade Is Over
Don't Say Goodbye
Please Send Me Someone to Love
Mister Engineer (Bring Her Back to Me)
The Beating of My Heart
Confess It to Your Heart
Too Late
Here I Am
In the Middle of the Night
Soda Pop
This Love
Sweeter Than Words
Ten Commandments of Love
Mean Old Blues
Love Is a River
I'll Never Stop Wanting You
Twelve Months of the Year
Don't Be Afraid of Love
Mama Loocie
Unemployment
Beatnik
Junior
Blue Velvet
Penny Arcade
