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  lenny (lennytone) 3-Pundit Username: lennytone Post Number: 69 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.241.87.19 |
I love that song by the Dolls, "This Is Our Day". Does anyone know anything about them? | ||
Phil (phil) 3-Pundit Username: phil Post Number: 66 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 212.129.40.148 |
Lenny, in the Osborne's book, "Rockin' Records", I saw that the song that you mention is on Maltese 100, from 1965, and also that Norma Jenkins was in the group. But I can't add nothing more, I've never heard of her ! | ||
Robb_K (robb_k) 5-Doyen Username: robb_k Post Number: 249 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.81.25.49 |
The Dolls were on George Kerr's Maltese label. I have Maltese 100: "This Is Our Day"/"What's Next" and 107: Norma Jenkins & Dolls "A Lover's Stand"/"The Airplane Song" They are from the period immediately after Kerr left Motown, and are heavily Motown influenced. "This Is Our Day" is a Jobete song. Norma Jenkins also had a solo record out on Joe Evans' Carnival Records: Carnival 528: "Me Myself And I"/"Need Someone To Love" The Dolls had another release on Toy Records, another New York label, produced by Dale Hawkins: Toy 707 - "The Reason Why"/"And That Reminds Me". It was leased for national distribution to Warner Bros.' subsidiary, Loma Records. I assume that the group is from the NY-New Jersey area. | ||
Davie Gordon (davie_gordon) 3-Pundit Username: davie_gordon Post Number: 62 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 212.219.250.4 |
Norma Jenkins resurfaced in the seventies with a George Kerr produced album on the Desert Moon label. She also had a few releases on the Creative Funk label prior to the Desert Moon album. Davie | ||
Davie Gordon (davie_gordon) 3-Pundit Username: davie_gordon Post Number: 63 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 212.219.250.4 |
The Dolls on Toy are supposedly a different group - from Texas where Dale Hawkins was based at the time. This group of Dolls also had, IIRC, a release on the Kangaroo label - based in Houston - I'd have to check. Davie | ||
Robb_K (robb_k) 5-Doyen Username: robb_k Post Number: 257 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.81.198.181 |
Thanks, Davie. Then, can we assume THAT Toy label is NOT the New York Toy label, which is also red? I had heard both that it was the same group and that it was a different group, and also both that it WAS and WAS NOT the same NY label. I couldn't tell by the singing that they were different people. | ||
Flynny (anoraks_corner) 3-Pundit Username: anoraks_corner Post Number: 58 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 213.122.109.44 |
I've always assumed tha those two 'Toy' labels were different companies. Whilst on the subject, can anyone fill in the missing couple of numbers on the label listing here, please: http://capitolsoulclub.homeste ad.com/MidTownListing.html | ||
Davie Gordon (davie_gordon) 4-Laureate Username: davie_gordon Post Number: 73 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 212.219.250.2 |
Ignore that bit about Norma jenkins having releases on Creative Funk - that was Diane Jenkins. Apologies - temporary brain overload  Re the Toy label - the Dolls was on Toy 707. The Toy lable that was based in NY used a number system that started at 101. I've a feeling there's a third, late fifties, label called Toy. Given that The Toy / Loma group were produced by Dale Hawkins who was Texas-based at that time (he was A&R chief for the Dallas-based Abnak label) and that there's a group called the Toys on another Texan label (Kangaroo) I think we can take it that there's one group of Dolls from Texas and another group of Dolls from the NY area. Flynny, when my database is up and running again I'll check your label list and see if I can anything. Davie |
