1961 - So Tuff / Over You (Pains In My Heart) (Edsel 786 / Mack IV 05)
1962 - Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart / Never More (Mack IV 112)
1962 - If There's A Next Time / Another Fella (Mack IV 114)
1962 - I Really Feel Good / The Old Days (Mack IV 115)
1964 - Gee Baby / Somebody's Fox (Mack IV 117)
1964 - I Lost My Baby / What Is Soul (Mack IV 118)
1964 - Where My Money Goes / Cover Girl (Aura 396)
1964 - Baby You Can Bet Your Boots / The Man Who Has Everything (Liberty 55692)
1964 - If I Didn't Have A Dime / Dream (Liberty 55719)
1964 - Anything For You / Cat 'N Mouse (World Pacific 386)
The Centennials
1961 - My Dear One / The Wayward Wind (Dot 16180)
Biography :
JJerome Evans started singing when he was a mere 3 years old
imitating songs he heard on the radio. Growing up in the West Los
Angeles neighborhood of 42nd Street between Broadway and Main, Jerome
starting "foolin' around" with his brothers and some other friends
singing in amateur shows in 1952. Later, Jerome formed a group called
the Cyclones along with Robert Washington, Melvin White and George
Taylor. In 1959, the Cyclones recorded "Big Mary" for George Motola's
Forward Records (Forward 313). In the same period Jerome Evans had been a
member of The Lions & The Centennials.
Jimmy Green
Jimmy McEachin (Mack)
Later,
in 1962, the four members of the Cyclones joined Jimmy Green (the
brother of Vernon Green of the Medallions) to form a new group. The
group was practicing one day when songwriter/producer Jimmy McEachin
(who wrote such novelty hits as the Fight and Gravel Gert for the Barons
in 1959) heard them and decided to take them into the studio giving
them their new name - the Furys. The group recorded a number of records
for McEachin including So Tough b/w I've Got a Pain in My Head (Over
You) (Edsel 786 -1961).
"Over You" did pretty well for 6 months and was played a lot on KGFJ
and was pushed by Hunter Hancock on his radio show. The Furys later
would score on McEachin's own Mark IV label with a rendition of "Zing
Went the Strings of My Heart" b/w "Never More" . Of all the groups that
recorded Zing, the Furys' version is probably the most recognized.
That was the beginning of everything for the Furys, working with the
William Morris agency, the group did a lot of big shows.
The Furys later moved to Liberty records where they recorded "Man Who
Has Everything" b/w "Baby, You Can Bet Your Boots" and "If I Didn't
Have A Dime" b/w "Dream" and the World Pacific label where they cut "Cat
'N Mouse" b/w "Anything For You .The Furys also recorded under the
name of Private Eye and did Charlie Chan and Dances With Charlie Chan
(Kris Records). When the British invasion hit, the Furys went overseas
doing tours in Japan and in southeast asia (in 1970). The group later
disbanded in the early 1970's.
