THE SWANS DOO WOP 45 NO MORE/MY TRUE LOVE RED WAX

$

999

RAINBOW #233, VISUALLY A VERY STRONG VG+ RECORD (SOME MIGHT GRADE IT A LITTLE HIGHER), VERY CLEAN LOOKING.  IT PLAYS VG PROBABLY BECAUSE IT IS PRESSED ON PLASTIC.  THE VOCALS ARE VERY OUT FRONT AND ALMOST SOUND LIKE THEY ARE LIVE IN YOUR LIVING ROOM!!  BUT THERE IS SOME STATIC THAT CAUSED MY MENTIONING IT.  ONE OF THE MOST DESIREABLE VOCAL GROUP 45s, ON MANY WANT LISTS.  THIS ONE RARELY SHOWS UP FOR SALE (I'VE ONLY FOUND ONE EbAY SALE IN THE LAST 4 YEARS) AND MY FIRST COPY IN NEARLY 30 YEARS OF SELLING RECORDS.  A BEAUTIFUL COLLECTABLE COPY...........

Jerry Skokandich writes on the web site: LOST LEGENDS OF RHYTHM & BLUES:

The Swans on Rainbow Records are another R&B vocal group that made one record and then seemingly vanished from sight.  However, what a record!  “My True Love” is another R&B gem that makes collectors and R&B fans tingle when they hear it played. The group formed around 1951 and was from Greenburg, New York, which is, located about one mile from White Plains.  The members at various times included James Brabham, Charlie Drew, Donald Sledge, Charlie Sharrock, Clifford James and Ray Roberts.    Sledge was in the service when the record was made.

  In a recent interview, James Brabham recalls, “ We were just kids hanging around our neighborhood in Greenburg, NY listening to groups like the Orioles, Cardinals and Clovers.  We tried to sound like them and after awhile we figured we needed a name so we came up with a ‘bird name’, the Swans.  By 1953, we were playing some clubs in New York City and met Lover Patterson who helped us get the record done.”  

 Patterson was a “jack-of-all-trades” in the New York music scene.  He was connected to Eddie Heller’s Rainbow Record Company where he helped the Swans obtain a contract.  

Brabham stated that he wrote “My True Love” along with Ray Roberts and also collaborated on the flip side “(Ain’t Like That) No More”.  He also divulged that Ray Roberts was the lead singer on “My True Love” and that there was some unfinished material at Rainbow Records.  

“My True Love” was released on Rainbow number 233 in Dec. 1953.  The record went nowhere evidenced by no information about the group or the record in Billboard Magazine’s 1953 or 1954 clippings.

The Swans stayed together a short while after the record was released and then broke up like so many groups of the 1950’s.  However, because they were part of the “White Plains singing conglomerate”, it wouldn’t be long before some of them were back in the music business.

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