L-R: Ralph Hollis, Charles Perry, Cornelius Weekly, Robert Lee Herring
The Five Superiors (Hollywood, Ca.)
Personnel :
Charles Perry (Lead and 1st Tenor)
Cornelius Weekly (2nd Tenor)
Robert Lee Herring (Soprano)
Ralph Hollis (Bass)
A.C. Herring (Soprano) (replaced by Dickie Wanzo)
Discography :
1962 - Big Shot / There's A Fool Born Every Day (Garpax 44170)
1962 - Geneva Twist / [Astronauts - Blue Mood (instrumental)] (Jan Ell 459)
Biography :
“We
were from Oakland Ca. There was Ralph Hollis, now deceased, Cornelius
Weekly, Robert Lee Herring, AC Herring, later replaced by Dickie Wanzo
as AC Herring went the navy, and myself, Charles Perry. There was a time
that we were just the four of us as we did not have a replacement for
AC Herring. When we made the recordings we had Dickie Wanzo replace AC
Herring. We started singing on the street corner in the neighborhood we
lived in. We started performing at local dances and parties at UC
Berkeley. A friend of mine, Ken Worley had a brother Mickie Worley who
knew Lee who had a recording studio in Santa Clara, Ca. and he (Lee) was
looking for a group to make albums to sell in Woolworth stores and
these recordings were of other group's songs, they sold for 99 Cents
each.
L-R: Ralph Hollis, (Jim Satcher), Charles Perry, Cornelius Weekly,
Robert Lee Herring, (Ken Parker)
In return Lee got us a recording deal with Gary Paxton in Hollywood
Ca. We recorded three songs that weekend, Geneva Twist, There's a Fool
Born Everyday, and Big Shot. Robert Lee Herring sang There's a Fool Born
Everyday, and I sang the other two songs, Big Shot and Geneva Twist.
As for just four of us in the pictures, this was right after we made the
songs and Dickie Wanzo was not with group. I was the youngest in the
group, I was 16 years old at the time. The other members were 17 and 18
years old at the time. After doing some local TV appearances some of the
group members got married and we accomplished what we set out to do,
record a record, we went on with our lives.”
Songs :
There's A Fool Born Every Day Big Shot Geneva Twist