Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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6427765 | Play | Sixty Minute Man | 02:29 Tools | |
6427766 | Play | Have Mercy Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
49847239 | Play | Do Something for Me | 00:00 Tools | |
6427768 | Play | Sixty-Minute Man | 00:00 Tools | |
49847240 | Play | That's What You're Doing to Me | 00:00 Tools | |
6427770 | Play | 60 Minute Man | 00:00 Tools | |
49847252 | Play | Star Dust | 00:00 Tools | |
49847241 | Play | I Am with You | 00:00 Tools | |
6427774 | Play | Pedal Pushin' Papa | 00:00 Tools | |
49847242 | Play | Carry Go Bring Come - Extended Version | 00:00 Tools | |
6427781 | Play | Chicken Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
6427891 | Play | Carry Go Bring Come | 00:00 Tools | |
6427784 | Play | Another Lightning | 00:00 Tools | |
6427776 | Play | The Bells | 00:00 Tools | |
49847247 | Play | Take Me Back to Heaven | 00:00 Tools | |
6427778 | Play | Weeping Willow Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
49847244 | Play | You Can't Keep A Good Man Down | 00:00 Tools | |
6427790 | Play | Sixty Minute Man (Re-Recorded / Remastered) | 00:00 Tools | |
49847243 | Play | I'D Be Satisfied | 00:00 Tools | |
6427789 | Play | Christmas In Heaven | 00:00 Tools | |
6427779 | Play | Rags To Riches | 00:00 Tools | |
6427773 | Play | Stardust | 00:00 Tools | |
6427786 | Play | Shh, Be Quiet | 00:00 Tools | |
6427780 | Play | Harbour Lights | 00:00 Tools | |
6427872 | Play | Music Maestro Please | 00:00 Tools | |
49847245 | Play | The Ark | 00:00 Tools | |
6427812 | Play | Lies | 00:00 Tools | |
6427877 | Play | Harbor Lights | 00:00 Tools | |
6427802 | Play | Can't Do Sixty No More | 00:00 Tools | |
6427782 | Play | The Deacon Moves In | 00:00 Tools | |
49847246 | Play | Baby Fat | 00:00 Tools | |
6427852 | Play | Testify | 00:00 Tools | |
6427795 | Play | Love, Love, Love | 00:00 Tools | |
6427818 | Play | Lucinda | 00:00 Tools | |
6427788 | Play | These Foolish Things | 00:00 Tools | |
6427846 | Play | a matter of fact | 00:00 Tools | |
6427775 | Play | Deep Purple | 00:00 Tools | |
6427845 | Play | Sixty Minute Man - from "American Hot Wax" | 00:00 Tools | |
49847251 | Play | These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) | 00:00 Tools | |
49847254 | Play | Come to Me Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
6427831 | Play | Don't Leave Me This Way | 00:00 Tools | |
6427785 | Play | Love Love Love | 00:00 Tools | |
6427876 | Play | When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano | 00:00 Tools | |
6427805 | Play | My Baby's 3-D | 00:00 Tools | |
49847249 | Play | Deep Sea Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
6427783 | Play | Over the Rainbow | 00:00 Tools | |
6427814 | Play | That's What You're Doin' To Me | 00:00 Tools | |
6427796 | Play | I'm Lonely | 00:00 Tools | |
6427793 | Play | Until The Real Thing Comes Along | 00:00 Tools | |
49847248 | Play | Have Mercy Mercy | 00:00 Tools | |
6427889 | Play | Jennie Lee | 00:00 Tools | |
6427866 | Play | Sixty Minute Man (Digitally Remastered) | 00:00 Tools | |
6427797 | Play | Tootsie Roll | 00:00 Tools | |
6427787 | Play | My Baby's 3D | 00:00 Tools | |
49847250 | Play | I Can't Escape From You | 00:00 Tools | |
6427836 | Play | Half a Love | 00:00 Tools | |
6427798 | Play | To Each His Own | 00:00 Tools | |
6427887 | Play | Pedal Pushin'Papa | 00:00 Tools | |
6427800 | Play | Summertime Gal | 00:00 Tools | |
76893620 | Play | Sixty Minute Man - Remastered | 00:00 Tools | |
6427799 | Play | Will You Remember | 00:00 Tools | |
49847258 | Play | Give Me You | 00:00 Tools | |
6427878 | Play | St Theresa and the Roses | 00:00 Tools | |
49847273 | Play | Egoism | 00:00 Tools | |
6427794 | Play | Three Coins In The Fountain | 00:00 Tools | |
6427837 | Play | I Ain't Gonna Cry For You | 00:00 Tools | |
49847255 | Play | Yours Forever | 00:00 Tools | |
6427822 | Play | Sixty Minute Man [1950] | 00:00 Tools | |
6427865 | Play | Heart To Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
49847256 | Play | No Room | 00:00 Tools | |
6427860 | Play | No Says My Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
6427890 | Play | Ringing in a Brand New Year | 00:00 Tools | |
49847257 | Play | These Foolish Things Remind Me of You | 00:00 Tools | |
6427874 | Play | Have Mercy, Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
6427810 | Play | Til Kingdom Come | 00:00 Tools | |
49847253 | Play | Carry Go Bring Come - Rocksteady Version | 00:00 Tools | |
6427884 | Play | Have Mercy Baby (Digitally Remastered) | 00:00 Tools | |
49847269 | Play | St. Louis Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
6427855 | Play | Home Is Where You Hang Your Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
6427801 | Play | September Song | 00:00 Tools | |
49847259 | Play | Stardust * | 00:00 Tools | |
6427792 | Play | I'm Going To Move To The Outskirts Of Town | 00:00 Tools | |
49847260 | Play | You Can't Keep a Good Man Down (feat. Jackie Wilson) | 00:00 Tools | |
49847262 | Play | Gimme Gimme Gimme | 00:00 Tools | |
6427803 | Play | Over The River (feat. Justin Hinds) | 00:00 Tools | |
49847263 | Play | I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town | 00:00 Tools | |
6427819 | Play | I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance | 00:00 Tools | |
89106485 | Play | St. Louis Blues (Featuring Jackie Wilson) | 00:00 Tools | |
6427885 | Play | Stop! You're Sending Me | 00:00 Tools | |
49847282 | Play | Lay It on the Line | 00:00 Tools | |
6427791 | Play | ST. Therese Of The Roses | 00:00 Tools | |
49847261 | Play | 7753191 | 00:00 Tools | |
49847264 | Play | Set Your Mind All On | 00:00 Tools | |
49847265 | Play | Everything Hypnotizes | 00:00 Tools | |
49847275 | Play | One Moment With You | 00:00 Tools | |
6427844 | Play | Come on Snake Let's Crawl | 00:00 Tools | |
6427835 | Play | Have Mercy Mercy Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
6427806 | Play | Chiken Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
49847267 | Play | Sweethearts | 00:00 Tools | |
49847266 | Play | That's What You're Doing To Me (Digitally Remastered) | 00:00 Tools | |
49847268 | Play | If I Never Get To Heaven | 00:00 Tools | |
6427825 | Play | Carry Go Bring Home | 00:00 Tools | |
49847280 | Play | Tenderly | 00:00 Tools | |
49847272 | Play | Rock Plymouth Rock | 00:00 Tools | |
89106486 | Play | Sixty Minutes Man | 00:00 Tools | |
49847270 | Play | Sixty Minute Man (1951) | 00:00 Tools | |
6427804 | Play | Natty Take Over | 00:00 Tools | |
49847283 | Play | That's How You Know You're Growing Old | 00:00 Tools | |
49847288 | Play | No, Says My Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
6427871 | Play | Have Mercy Baby - Original | 00:00 Tools | |
6427858 | Play | That's What You Do To Me (Dominoes) | 00:00 Tools | |
49847281 | Play | Please Don't Say No | 00:00 Tools | |
49847294 | Play | Solitude | 00:00 Tools | |
49847286 | Play | My Fair Weather Friend | 00:00 Tools | |
49847290 | Play | Evermore | 00:00 Tools | |
49847278 | Play | (You Grow) Sweeter as the Years Go By | 00:00 Tools | |
49847277 | Play | When the Saints Go Marching In | 00:00 Tools | |
49847279 | Play | Someone Greater Than I | 00:00 Tools | |
6427867 | Play | O Holy Night | 00:00 Tools | |
6427868 | Play | Sixty Minute Man (Remastered) | 00:00 Tools | |
49847271 | Play | For All | 00:00 Tools | |
49847274 | Play | A little windy | 00:00 Tools | |
49847295 | Play | Bobby Sox Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
49847297 | Play | Above Jacob's Ladder | 00:00 Tools | |
49847276 | Play | Luigi's Minimal Mansion - Original Mix | 00:00 Tools | |
49847298 | Play | Sweethearts On Parade | 00:00 Tools | |
87036042 | Play | I An't Gonna Cry For You | 00:00 Tools | |
6427882 | Play | Dominoes | 00:00 Tools | |
89106487 | Play | Sixty | 00:00 Tools | |
6427829 | Play | Je suis swing | 00:00 Tools | |
6427847 | Play | Ringin' In A Brand New Year | 00:00 Tools | |
49847287 | Play | Bye Bye Johnny (Reading Rag Records,66) | 00:00 Tools | |
49847292 | Play | Behave Hula Girl | 00:00 Tools | |
76893623 | Play | My Proudest Possession | 00:00 Tools | |
49847296 | Play | Do It Again | 00:00 Tools | |
76893621 | Play | Little Things Mean A Lot | 00:00 Tools | |
49847285 | Play | May I Never Love Again | 00:00 Tools | |
6427883 | Play | Layla | 00:00 Tools | |
76893622 | Play | Controll | 00:00 Tools | |
49847284 | Play | Utopia | 00:00 Tools | |
6427841 | Play | Rock Plymoth Rock | 00:00 Tools | |
49847289 | Play | The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man | 00:00 Tools | |
6427886 | Play | Mighty Redeemer | 00:00 Tools | |
89106488 | Play | The Man in the Stained Glass Window | 00:00 Tools | |
49847293 | Play | St Therese of the Roses | 00:00 Tools | |
49847291 | Play | King Boo - Original Mix | 00:00 Tools | |
89106489 | Play | Rub Up Push Up | 00:00 Tools | |
49847300 | Play | I Really Don't Want To Know | 00:00 Tools | |
89106490 | Play | Over the River | 00:00 Tools | |
49847299 | Play | Have Mercy Baby (1952) | 00:00 Tools | |
49847301 | Play | Can't Do Sixty | 00:00 Tools |
Billy Ward and His Dominoes were one of the top American R&B groups of the 1950s, and launched the careers of both Clyde McPhatter and Jackie Wilson. Billy Ward (born Robert L. Williams, 19 September 1921, Savannah, Georgia—died 16 February 2002, Inglewood, California) grew up in Philadelphia, the second of three sons of Charles Williams and Cora Bates Williams, and was a child musical prodigy, winning an award for a piano composition at the age of 14. Following military service he studied music in Chicago, and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. While working as a vocal coach and part-time arranger on Broadway, he met talent agent Rose Marks, who became his business and songwriting partner. The pair set out to form a vocal group from the ranks of his students. The group was at first called the Ques, and comprised Clyde McPhatter (lead tenor), Charlie White (tenor), Joe Lamont (baritone), and Bill Brown (bass). Ward acted as their pianist and arranger. After the group made successful appearances on talent shows in the Apollo Theater and on the Arthur Godfrey show in 1950, Rene Hall recommended them to Ralph Bass of Federal Records, a subsidiary of King, where they were signed to a recording contract and renamed themselves the Dominoes. Their first single release, "Do Something For Me", with McPhatter’s lead vocal, reached the R&B charts in early 1951, climbing to #6. After a less successful follow-up, the group released "Sixty Minute Man", on which Brown sang lead, and boasted of being able to satisfy his girls with fifteen minutes each of "kissin'" "teasin'" and "squeezin'", before "blowin'" his "top". It reached #1 on the R&B chart in May 1951 and stayed there for a 14 weeks. It was an important record in several respects—it crossed the boundaries between gospel singing and blues, its lyrics pushed the limits of what was deemed acceptable, and it appealed to many white as well as black listeners, peaking at #17 on the pop charts. In later years, it became a contender for the title of "the first rock and roll record". The group toured widely, building up a reputation as one of the top R&B acts of the era, and an audience which crossed racial divides. However, Ward's strict disciplinarian approach, and failure to recompense the singers, caused internal problems. The name "The Dominoes" was owned by Ward and Marks, who had the power to hire and fire, and to pay the singers a salary. Clyde McPhatter was being paid barely enough to live on, and often found himself billed as "Clyde Ward" to fool fans into thinking he was Billy Ward's brother. White and Brown both left in 1951 to form The Checkers, and were replaced by James Van Loan and David McNeil (previously of The Larks). In March 1952, the Dominoes were chosen to be the only vocal group at Alan Freed's "Moondog Coronation Ball". The hits continued, with "Have Mercy Baby" topping the R&B charts for 10 weeks in 1952. However, in early 1953, McPhatter also decided to leave, and soon formed a new group, The Drifters. His replacement in the Dominoes was Jackie Wilson, who had sung with the group on tour. Lamont and McNeil also left and were replaced by Milton Merle and Cliff Givens. With Wilson singing lead, singles such as "You Can't Keep A Good Man Down" continued to be successful. In 1954, Ward moved the group to the Jubilee label and then to Decca, where they enjoyed a #27 pop hit with "St. Teresa of the Roses". However, the group were unable to follow that success in the charts, and there were a succession of personnel changes. They increasingly moved away from their R&B roots with appearances in Las Vegas and elsewhere. In late 1956, Wilson left for a solo career and was replaced by Gene Mumford of The Larks. The group then got a new contract with Liberty Records, and had a #13 pop hit with "Stardust". This proved to be their last major success, although various line-ups of the group continued recording and performing into the 1960s. They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2006. Former members Billy Ward Clyde McPhatter Charlie White Joe Lamont Bill Brown James Van Loan David McNeil Jackie Wilson Milton Merle Cliff Givens Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.