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Mitglieder:
Nathaniel Ruff (Tenor)
Earl Christianson (Tenor)
Ray Smith (Baritone)
Tommy Elridge (Bass)
Paul Burnett
Discography :
The Jarmels
1961 - Little Lonely One / She Loves To Dance (Laurie 3085)
1961 - A Little Bit Of Soap / the Way You Look Tonight (Laurie 3098)
1961 - I'll Follow You / Gee Oh Gosh (Laurie 3116)
1962 - Red Sails In The Sunset / Loneliness (Laurie 3124)
1962 - One By One / Little Bug (Laurie 3141)
1963 - Come On Girl / Keep Your Mind On Me (Laurie 3174)
N/A - Why Am I A Fool For You (Collectable LP 5044)
N/A - You Don't Believe A Word I Say (Collectable LP 5044)
The Actors
1962 - Cool waters / Peanut Brittle (Laurie 3135)
Discography :
The Jarmels were one of those one-hit wonder groups, responsible for a number 12 single in 1961 entitled "A Little Bit of Soap." If none of their other five singles did remotely as well, that song has lingered in the public consciousness, partly with help from periodic new hit versions by the Exciters in the mid-1960s and Showaddywaddy in England during the 1980s.
The Jarmels came from Richmond, Virginia, where the five members had all begun singing together in church and school. Nathaniel Ruff (b. 1939), Ray Smith (b. 1941), Paul Burnett (b. 1942), Earl Christian (b. 1940), and Tom Eldridge (b. 1941) may have come from Virginia, but the name of the group they formed in the late 1950s came from a street in Harlem.
Their manager was Jim Gribble, who also managed the Mystics and the Passions, and brought the Jarmels to Laurie Records in New York in 1961. They were a rather unusual addition to the Laurie roster, for most of the company's artists were white, and sounded more pop than R&B-influenced. The Jarmels combined pop and R&B influences, most notably the sound of the post-1958 Drifters.
Their first single, "Little Lonely One," was a hit in New York but never charted nationally.
