Paste up picture - Top : Timothy Wilson "Tiny Tim" - Bottom : Thomas Price & William Collier
Tiny Tim & The Hits (Eastern Shore, Maryland)
Personnel :
Timothy "Tiny Tim" Wilson (Lead)
Thomas Price (Baritone)
William Collier
Lionel Brown
Orlesto Smith
Discography :
1958 - Wedding Bells / Doll Baby (Roulette 4123)
Biography :
Howard Harrison "Timothy" Wilson was born in 1943 in Salisbury,
Maryland. Wilson got started young is a profound understatement.
Adopting Frankie Lymon and Little Anthony as his prime models, he joined
the group of Norma Lee Trader called Five Hits & A Miss in the late
50's. All the guys are from the Eastern shore of Maryland, and all went
to the same schools and same churches. When Norma Lee Trader left to
make life, Timothy Wilson, Lionel Brown, Orlesto Smith, Thomas Price and
William Collier change name as Tiny Tim & The Hits. The group
recorded "Wedding Bells" b/w "Doll Baby" for Roulette in 1958. After
this 45’ the group splits.
Timothy "Tiny Tim" Wilson
Five
years passed before Thomas Price and William Collier resurfaced with
Samuel Culley and Ervan Waters as the Diplomats on Arock Records. The
tight-harmony remake of "Unchained Melody" was the first single, and
they got their foot halfway through the door with their second single,
"Here's a Heart" (October 1963). Timothy Wilson join the Serenaders with
Howard Curry, Sidney Barnes and George Kerr. Timothy Wilson went on to
become a 60’s soul pioneer and scored his next huge hit in 1967 with
“Baby Baby Please,” which was big on the soul charts in New York and New
Jersey. Wilson became a favorite at the famed Apollo Theater in New
York with a number of hits including “Queen Of Hearts,” “I Wanna Know
Right Now,” “Say It Again,” and “Oh How I Wish She Were Mine,” and
became the first east coast artist signed to Motown. In the early 1990’s
he became the lead singer of Frankie Lymon’s Legendary Teenagers, his
voice still as strong as it was in the 60’s.
Songs :
Wedding Bells Doll Baby