1958 - You Make My Heart Sing Ah! / Pretty Window (Dick Garrett & The Shadows ) (Fraternity 795)
Biography :
Vocal group The Bow Ribbons, comprised of three young lasses :
Beverly, Victoria & Debra between 6 and 8 years old. The Bow Ribbons
were Elroy Peace's little daughter Victoria, age 6, and two nieces,
Beverly and Debra age 7 and 8. The Young Trio recorded for
Transcontinental Records owned by Brad Atwood the sides "Hey Diddle
Diddle" and "Quick Like" where the girls backed Elroy with Eddie
Cochran on guitar. Some months later, they recorded two new songs "Mr.
Spoon" and "Our Father" released by Milton Vedder's label Motif. the
four songs recorded by the trio were all composed by Ray Stanley.
Elroy
Peace
Ray Stanley was born Stanley Nussbaum in Dermott,
Arkansas in 1924. Songwriter and vocalist Stanley teamed up with Jack
Lewis at American Music and were responsible for the Crest label's first
four releases. In May 1956, 'Glendora' a Ray Stanley song was covered
by Perry Como whose version made the top ten on RCA. Lewis then left
American and founded Sherman Music with Billy Sherman. Ray played piano
on Eddie Cochran's early sessions in Gold Star Studio in mid 1956
including 'Skinny Jim', 'Half Loved' and 'My Love To Remember'.
In late 1956 Ray made a couple of demos of songs he composed. These
demos are now mostly famous as Eddie Cochran sat in on guitar and
provided some of his best recorded guitar licks. Songs include: 'Market
Place', 'Pushin', 'Love Charms', My Lovin' Baby' and 'Kiss & Make
Up'. In 1958, Elroy Peace and Paul White are The Shadows. One of the
most memorable songs of bandleader Ted Lewis was "Me and My Shadow"
with which he frequently closed his act. Around 1928, he started to use
a shadow mimicking his movements during his act. Several
Afro-American played the Shadow. Elroy Peace and Paul White were two of
them in the forties.
Young Elroy Peace and Paul White (The Shadows)
Elroy
Peace's first record was probably "Onion Breath Baby" for the Swing
Time label in 1953. Followed a duet with Willie Mae Thornton on Peacock.
After the Fraternity single as the Shadows, he was heard on West Coast
labels such as Keen, Romeo, or Helga. In the early sixties, during a
tour in Australia & New-Zealand, Elroy recorded at least two singles
which were issued on local labels.
