Music in The Castle of Heaven

Various Artists - The Gone Story (1999) {2CD Set, Westside Records WESD206 rec 1957-1964}
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© 1957-64, 1999 Gone Recordings / Westside Records | WESD 206
Rhythm & Blues / Doo Wop / Oldies / Blues / Soul / Rock 'n' Roll

George Goldner Presents The Gone Story: Doo-Wop to Soul 1957-1963 contains 65 songs representing a dead-perfect cross-section of the singles output of one of New York's great R&B labels of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The opening cut, the Dubs' slow, romantic "Don't Ask Me (To Be Lonely)," shows just how far George Goldner's conception of rhythm & blues had come in the four years since he'd founded Rama Records in 1953. Gone Records, starting in 1957, featured a more sophisticated output, oriented toward elegant, impassioned ballads rather than the dance numbers that had gone over so big in the mid-'50s.

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