The Dominoes

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Sixty Minute Man 02:29 Tools
Have Mercy Baby 00:00 Tools
Do Something for Me 00:00 Tools
Sixty-Minute Man 00:00 Tools
That's What You're Doing to Me 00:00 Tools
60 Minute Man 00:00 Tools
Star Dust 00:00 Tools
I Am with You 00:00 Tools
Pedal Pushin' Papa 00:00 Tools
Carry Go Bring Come - Extended Version 00:00 Tools
Chicken Blues 00:00 Tools
Carry Go Bring Come 00:00 Tools
Another Lightning 00:00 Tools
The Bells 00:00 Tools
Take Me Back to Heaven 00:00 Tools
Weeping Willow Blues 00:00 Tools
You Can't Keep A Good Man Down 00:00 Tools
Sixty Minute Man (Re-Recorded / Remastered) 00:00 Tools
I'D Be Satisfied 00:00 Tools
Christmas In Heaven 00:00 Tools
Rags To Riches 00:00 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
Shh, Be Quiet 00:00 Tools
Harbour Lights 00:00 Tools
Music Maestro Please 00:00 Tools
The Ark 00:00 Tools
Lies 00:00 Tools
Harbor Lights 00:00 Tools
Can't Do Sixty No More 00:00 Tools
The Deacon Moves In 00:00 Tools
Baby Fat 00:00 Tools
Testify 00:00 Tools
Love, Love, Love 00:00 Tools
Lucinda 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things 00:00 Tools
a matter of fact 00:00 Tools
Deep Purple 00:00 Tools
Sixty Minute Man - from "American Hot Wax" 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) 00:00 Tools
Come to Me Baby 00:00 Tools
Don't Leave Me This Way 00:00 Tools
Love Love Love 00:00 Tools
When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano 00:00 Tools
My Baby's 3-D 00:00 Tools
Deep Sea Blues 00:00 Tools
Over the Rainbow 00:00 Tools
That's What You're Doin' To Me 00:00 Tools
I'm Lonely 00:00 Tools
Until The Real Thing Comes Along 00:00 Tools
Have Mercy Mercy 00:00 Tools
Jennie Lee 00:00 Tools
Sixty Minute Man (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Tootsie Roll 00:00 Tools
My Baby's 3D 00:00 Tools
I Can't Escape From You 00:00 Tools
Half a Love 00:00 Tools
To Each His Own 00:00 Tools
Pedal Pushin'Papa 00:00 Tools
Summertime Gal 00:00 Tools
Sixty Minute Man - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Will You Remember 00:00 Tools
Give Me You 00:00 Tools
St Theresa and the Roses 00:00 Tools
Egoism 00:00 Tools
Three Coins In The Fountain 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonna Cry For You 00:00 Tools
Yours Forever 00:00 Tools
Sixty Minute Man [1950] 00:00 Tools
Heart To Heart 00:00 Tools
No Room 00:00 Tools
No Says My Heart 00:00 Tools
Ringing in a Brand New Year 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things Remind Me of You 00:00 Tools
Have Mercy, Baby 00:00 Tools
Til Kingdom Come 00:00 Tools
Carry Go Bring Come - Rocksteady Version 00:00 Tools
Have Mercy Baby (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Home Is Where You Hang Your Heart 00:00 Tools
September Song 00:00 Tools
Stardust * 00:00 Tools
I'm Going To Move To The Outskirts Of Town 00:00 Tools
You Can't Keep a Good Man Down (feat. Jackie Wilson) 00:00 Tools
Gimme Gimme Gimme 00:00 Tools
Over The River (feat. Justin Hinds) 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town 00:00 Tools
I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues (Featuring Jackie Wilson) 00:00 Tools
Stop! You're Sending Me 00:00 Tools
Lay It on the Line 00:00 Tools
ST. Therese Of The Roses 00:00 Tools
7753191 00:00 Tools
Set Your Mind All On 00:00 Tools
Everything Hypnotizes 00:00 Tools
One Moment With You 00:00 Tools
Come on Snake Let's Crawl 00:00 Tools
Have Mercy Mercy Baby 00:00 Tools
Chiken Blues 00:00 Tools
Sweethearts 00:00 Tools
That's What You're Doing To Me (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
If I Never Get To Heaven 00:00 Tools
Carry Go Bring Home 00:00 Tools
Tenderly 00:00 Tools
Rock Plymouth Rock 00:00 Tools
Sixty Minutes Man 00:00 Tools
Sixty Minute Man (1951) 00:00 Tools
Natty Take Over 00:00 Tools
That's How You Know You're Growing Old 00:00 Tools
No, Says My Heart 00:00 Tools
Have Mercy Baby - Original 00:00 Tools
That's What You Do To Me (Dominoes) 00:00 Tools
Please Don't Say No 00:00 Tools
Solitude 00:00 Tools
My Fair Weather Friend 00:00 Tools
Evermore 00:00 Tools
(You Grow) Sweeter as the Years Go By 00:00 Tools
When the Saints Go Marching In 00:00 Tools
Someone Greater Than I 00:00 Tools
O Holy Night 00:00 Tools
Sixty Minute Man (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
For All 00:00 Tools
A little windy 00:00 Tools
Bobby Sox Baby 00:00 Tools
Above Jacob's Ladder 00:00 Tools
Luigi's Minimal Mansion - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Sweethearts On Parade 00:00 Tools
I An't Gonna Cry For You 00:00 Tools
Dominoes 00:00 Tools
Sixty 00:00 Tools
Je suis swing 00:00 Tools
Ringin' In A Brand New Year 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Johnny (Reading Rag Records,66) 00:00 Tools
Behave Hula Girl 00:00 Tools
My Proudest Possession 00:00 Tools
Do It Again 00:00 Tools
Little Things Mean A Lot 00:00 Tools
May I Never Love Again 00:00 Tools
Layla 00:00 Tools
Controll 00:00 Tools
Utopia 00:00 Tools
Rock Plymoth Rock 00:00 Tools
The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man 00:00 Tools
Mighty Redeemer 00:00 Tools
The Man in the Stained Glass Window 00:00 Tools
St Therese of the Roses 00:00 Tools
King Boo - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Rub Up Push Up 00:00 Tools
I Really Don't Want To Know 00:00 Tools
Over the River 00:00 Tools
Have Mercy Baby (1952) 00:00 Tools
Can't Do Sixty 00:00 Tools
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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.