Earth Angel Pop Music Group

Earth Angel is highly noted for its American pop music that was originally released in the year 1954 by the Penguins. This pop music was essentially based on the Dootone label (Dootone 348) as the B-side to Hey Señorita. In the year 1954 both these songs were originally recorded as demo recordings. The recordings were done at the Ted Brinson's garage studio located in South Los Angeles with producer Dootsie Williams.

It is indeed an interesting thing to know that in early 1955 Earth Angel quickly surpassed the A-side in terms of its popularity and reached #1 on the Billboard R&B chart for almost three weeks. It was for sure that the love songs proved to be the only Top 40 hits from the group. It also holds the remarkable position of #8 on the pop chart.

Out of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the Earth Angel constitutes the 151st rank on the Rolling Stone's list. It was in the year 2004 that one of 50 recordings that was chosen by the Library of Congress has been added to the National Recording Registry. It was one of the first records as rock and roll to hit the national pop charts. Moreover, very few copies of the UK edition of Earth Angel were sold and hence it thoroughly enjoyed a legendary status among all the record collectors. These copies were extremely rare and are filled with valuable records. But it should not be neglected that on the issue of identification of the original singer of those songs, there arose some controversial debates.

The songs of the Earth Angel were originally credited to The Penguins' baritone singer Curtis Williams. In a legal dispute that occurred in 1956 the Turks were added as co-writers with these singers Jesse Belvin and Gaynel Hodge who were the members of another Los Angeles vocal group at that time. According to some reliable sources Earth Angel was actually started by Belvin. Gradually it then evolved through various titled songs recorded by Hodge and Williams. They were highly influenced by Dream Girl that contained many of the similar vocal inflections used in Earth Angel.

The songs in Earth Angel became a major hit for The Crew-Cuts and reached the Billboard charts on January 29, 1955. Moreover, it constituted the most popular demands and peaked at #3 on the Disk Jockey chart, #8 on the Best Seller and the #8 on the Juke Box chart. If we study some cultural references we can note that it was Marvin Berry and the Star lighters who played the song during the high-school dance named Enchantment Under the Sea The songs were also played during the famous musical drama Jersey Boys. Wikipedia

Earth Angel Pop Music Group