GOLDEN HITS OF THE PARIS SISTERS-RARE SIDEWALK STEREO

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GOLDEN HITS OF THE PARIS SISTERS-RARE SIDEWALK STEREO!


A MINT- ORIGINAL LP ON SIDEWALK DT5906

IN STEREO FROM 1967 AND STILL WITH SHRINK WRAP OVER COVER

10 TRACKS INCLUDE I LOVE HOW YOU LOVE ME, BE MY BOY, I DON'T GIVE A DARN, HE KNOWS I LOVE HIM TOO MUCH, I CAME A LONG WAY TO NOWHERE, WON'T YOU HELP ME, TOGETHER, YESTERDAY

SHRINK PARTIALLY MISSING UPPER RIGHT CORNER FRONT AND SLEEVE SIDE BACK AS WELL AS TOP LEFT CORNER BACK. SOME LIGHT OVERALL AGE DISCOLORATION TO WHITE CARD STOCK, ESPECIALLY WHERE SHRINK IS MISSING. CORNERS WITH ROUGH SPOTS ON POINT. SPINE EDGE WITH SMALL SPLIT AND OUTER LAYER LOSS BY SIDEWALK LOGO. BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER WITH SMALL BEND MARK.

VIRGIN SPINDLE HOLE. THE VINYL BLANK APPEARS PRISTINE OUT OF THE SLEEVE; UNDER BRIGHT ANGLED LIGHT AND 20-20 VISION, A FEW LIGHT SURFACE RUBS. SIDE TWO WITH A LIGHT AND SMALL SURFACE SCUFF LINE IN TRACK IN TRACK FOUR.

FROM A PRIVATE JAZZ COLLECTION STORED BY THE ORIGINAL OWNER WHO WAS A NOTED JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATE

FROM THE ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
Biography
by Jason Ankeny
The Paris Sisters bridged the gap separating the traditional vocal pop of the post-World War II era from the equally generation-defining girl group sound that emerged in the wake of rock & roll. By the 1961 release of their Phil Spector-produced breakthrough "I Love How You Love Me," the siblings were already longtime veterans of the music business. Albeth (the oldest), Sherrell (the middle child), and Priscilla Paris (the baby) were born and raised in San Francisco. Their mother, Faye, was the quintessential stage parent, a former opera singer who continued her career vicariously through her children. The Paris Sisters got their start singing and dancing at local Air Force showcases, and circa 1953 they made their recorded debut with a pair of singles for the tiny Cavalier label: "The Bully, Bully Man" (a tie-in with local radio personality Red Blanchard) and the seasonal effort "Christmas in My Home Town." In 1954, their mother engineered a backstage visit during an Andrews Sisters performance at the Warfield Theater, and the trio was so impressed by the Paris siblings' uncanny imitations of their hits that they were invited on-stage for encore performances of the canteen classics "Rum and Coca Cola" and "Beer Barrel Polka." An MCA Records executive in the audience signed the Paris Sisters to the label's Decca imprint immediately thereafter, and the single "Ooh La La" appeared by year's end. 

Despite the snowballing popularity of rock & roll, the Paris Sisters' early Decca efforts adhered to the increasingly old-fashioned vocal harmony approach popularized by the Andrews Sisters and the McGuire Sisters. As a result, singles like 1955's "Huckleberry Pie," "Give Me a Band and My Baby" (a collaboration with crooner Bing Crosby's son Gary), and "Truly" earned little notice from radio programmers. Although their records fared poorly, the Paris Sisters toured relentlessly, appearing at county fairs, USO showcases, and even in Las Vegas, casino performances made possible with the aid of falsified birth certificates, makeup, and padded bras. After their seventh Decca single, 1956's "Daughter, Daughter," the label terminated the Paris Sisters' contract, and the siblings signed with Imperial to release 1957's "Old Enough to Cry," quickly followed by "My Original Love." Imperial opted to cut its losses then and there, and the Paris girls did not make another record for four years. When they finally resurfaced on Lester Sill's fledgling Gregmark label in 1961, the impresario insisted on a top-to-bottom overhaul of their approach, tapping up-and-coming producer Phil Spector to shepherd the transformation. Spector relegated Albeth and Sherrell to the background, and while he turned the spotlight on Priscilla, he insisted she dial back her powerful voice to a dusky whisper. 

While the Paris Sisters' Gregmark debut, "Be My Boy," earned little notice, the follow-up, "I Love How You Love Me," cracked the U.S. Top Five, galvanized by Priscilla's intimate lead turn and Spector's atypically restrained production. After the 1962 singles "He Knows I Love Him Too Much" and "What Am I to Do" also generated positive response at radio and retail, Spector began work on a Paris Sisters LP, but as production costs began to skyrocket, Sill attempted to exert control of the project. Their skirmish ended disastrously when, according to Sill, one of his assistants accidentally discarded the master tapes, although rumors persist of a far more nefarious outcome. Either way the Paris Sisters suffered the most damage, and while their relationship with Sill disintegrated under the threat of litigation, the siblings did not make another record until 1964, signing with MGM to cut a cover of the Bobby Darin smash "Dream Lover" overseen by Spector's erstwhile arranger Jack Nitzsche. After a pair of singles for Mercury, "When I Fall in Love" and "Always Waitin'," the Paris Sisters recorded the 1966 Unifilms LP Sing from "The Glass House", a soundtrack LP to a failed television series. That same year they signed to Reprise, which paired them with Nitzsche and production partner Jimmy Bowen -- though a commercial failure, the Paris Sisters' 1967 Reprise LP Everything Under the Sun!!! remains an unsung classic of the waning girl group era, featuring several original songs written by Priscilla herself.....

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