Nathaniel Lewis
Barney & The Googles (Memphis, TN)
Personnel :
Nathaniel Lewis
Don Lewis
James Wright
Discography :
1960 - Doin' The Shimmy / Fall Is Here (Shimmy 1055)
Biography :
Born
July 30, 1943, Nathaniel Lewis was out in south Memphis with little old
groups, doowoppin' up under the street post light whose the El
Salvadors caught the ear of a local grocery store owner named
Shillingstein who ask them if they got a song that they can recorded.
They said they got two tunes they wrote.'"Shimmy In The Daytime, Shimmy
At Night." and they got another one, "Fall Is Here." They cuttin' these
two tunes. "Fall Is Here" b/w "Doin' The Shimmy" emerged in 1960 on
Shimmy Records by Barmey & the Googles.
The Ovations
But the El Salvadors were not pleased
when Shimmy changed their name to Barney and The Googles. His name was
Barney, Barney Shillingstein. So he felt comfortable with Barney.they
were all clustered around at the store, and had told the people in the
neighborhood to listen. And Bamey got 'em to play it on the radio about
one or two times. they thought they were really a real group then!.
Nathaniel Lewis, was subsequently to join The Del-Rios, featuring Louis
Williams who had previously sung in The Four Kings (Stomper Time). The
Del-Rios were to achieve some success in the mid sixties as The
Ovations.
Songs :
Fall Is Here Doin' The Shimmy