The Ebon-Knights (St. Louis, Missouri)
Personnel :
Mack Jay Jorden
Discography :
Singles :
1957 - Poor Butterfly / The Way The Ball Bounces (Stepheny 1817)
1958 - First Date / Only Only You (Stepheny 1822)
Lps :
1958 - First Date with the Ebon-Knights (Stepheny MF-4001)
First
Date/Stop The World/Only Only You/Poor Butterfly/I'm Confessin'/Do You
Know/Georgia//Lonesome Road/Lover Come Back To Me/Why Don't You Happen
To Me/Falling In Love/Blues In The Night/That's The Way The Ball
Bounces/Numma Numma
Biography :
The Stepheny label was started in 1956 in Evanston, Illinois. The founder and president of the company was Norman Forgue. The company recorded popular, rhythm and blues and jazz. Most of the album releases were jazz and Dixieland, but a great R&B vocal group appeared on MF-4001, "First Date with the Ebon-Knights".
The Ebon-Knights came from St. Louis, Missouri. They only had the two
singles (from 11/57 and 2/58) and the LP from sometime in 58. The Group
make appearance at the Apollo Theater with Mickey & Sylvia, Billie
& Lillie, the Shepherd sisters....
Thanks to Marv Goldberg
Songs :
Georgia Falling In Love Do You Know
Blues In The Night I'm Confessin' The Way The Ball Bounces
Numma Numma Lonesome Road Why Don't You Happen To Me
Lover Come Back To Me Falling In Love