Hallo,
The Bell Sisters, Cynthia * 05. Oktober 1935 und Kay Strother * ca. 1940, waren ein erfolgreiches Duo aus Kentucky, man nannte sie die Bermuda Girls. Für ihre Künstler-Karriere nahmen sie den Mädchennamen ihrer Mutter an. Nachdem sie am 31. Oktober 1951 im lokalen TV-Programm “Peter Potter's Search for a Song“ von Los Angeles Cynthia’s Titel “Bermuda“ dargeboten hatten, erhielten sie schon eine Woche später einen Schallplattenvertrag durch RCA Records.
Der Titel (& with Henri Rene and his Orchestra) entwickelte sich zum Million-Hit und platzierte sich 1952 auf # 7 der Pop-Charts. Ihr nächster Chart-Treffer war “Wheel Of Fortune“ (with Henri Rene and his Orchestra) auf # 10 in Konkurrenz zu Kay Starr und anderen Interpren, die sich dieses Titels angenommen hatten – siehe oben. Der 3. Charts-Erfolg war ein gemeinsames Werk mit Phil Harris (“Hambone“-1952 # 19).
12. November 1951
RCA 47-4422 / 45 rpm; RCA 20-4422 / 78 rpm
BERMUDA (Strother)
JUNE NIGHT (Friend - Baer)
with Henri Rene and his Orchestra
24. Januar 1952
RCA 47-4520 / 45 rpm; RCA 20-4520 / 78 rpm
THE POOR WHIP-POOR-WILL (Move Over, Move Over) (J. Kennedy - N. Simon)
WHEEL OF FORTUNE (Benjamin - Weiss)
with Henri Rene and his Orchestra
17. Februar 1952
RCA 47-4584 / 45 rpm; RCA 20-4584 / 78 rpm
HAMBONE (Rod Saunders - Leon Washington)
MAMA'S ON THE WARPATH (Walter O'Keefe - Irv Orton)
Hambone with Phil Harris and the Bell Sisters
with Henri Rene and his Orchestra
29. März 1952
RCA 47-4665 / 45 rpm; RCA 20-4665 / 78 rpm
RUTZA, RUTZA (Hurry, Hurry) (Paul Laub - Sadie Hurwitz - Robert Conlan)
BOO-HOO (Edward Heyman - Carmen Lombardo - John Jacob Loeb)
with Henri Rene and his Orchestra
18. Juni 1952
RCA 47-4844 / 45 rpm; RCA 20-4844 / 78 rpm
HANG OUT THE STARS (Jack Lawrence)
WISE LITTLE ECHO (Dave Coleman)
with Henri Rene and his Orchestra
29. August 1952
RCA 47-4961 / 45 rpm; RCA 20-4961 / 78 rpm
IF'N (Jody Evans - Jeff Davis - By Dunham)
THERE'S A SHIP COMIN' IN (Van Alexander - Jay Sims)
with Jack Pleis and his Orchestra
19. September 1952
RCA 47-5015 / 45 rpm; RCA 20-5015 / 78 rpm
Also RCA Y-461, EP "Christmas Fun with Spike Jones"
SOCKO THE SMALLEST SNOWBALL (Freddy Morgan - David Myers
BARNYARD CHRISTMAS (Jack Stern)
both with Spike Jones
22. September 1952
RCA 47-4993 / 45 rpm; RCA 20-4993 / 78 rpm
PIECE A-PUDDIN' (Coon - Keidel
HI-DIDDLE-DIDDLE (Rudolph Toombs)
both with Phil Harris
with Jack Pleis and his Orchestra
11. November 1952
TALK, TALK, TALK (Lester Lee-Eddie Maxwell)
DO, DO, DO, DO, DO, DO, DO IT AGAIN (Roy Jordan - Sid Bass)
with Jack Pleis and his Orchestra
18. Dezember 1952
RCA 47-5122 / 45 rpm; RCA 20-5122 / 78 rpm
A FOOL SUCH AS I (Bill Trader)
I'M TEACHING MY DOLLY TO PRAY (John Oliver - Allan Roberts)
with Jack Pleis and his Orchestra
16. März 1953
THE DANCE OF LOVE (Al Hazan
SO LATE, SO EARLY (Strother - Sarr) [Version 1 [Version 2]
With Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra
30. April 1953
SIN IN SATIN (Margie O'Neale
With Harry Geller and His Orchestra
30. Juli 1953
RCA 47-5433 / 45 rpm; RCA 20-5433 / 78 rpm
HEARTLESS (Lori and Carl Ford)
TAKE BACK YOUR GOLD (M.H. Rosenfeld) (from the Paramount film "Those Redheads from Seattle")
with Orchestra conducted by Harry Geller
1956
Bermuda Records B-1000 / 45 rpm
BOOM BOOM, MY HONEY (Milton Kellem)
BABY COUNT TEN (Strother - Saar
under the direction of Darrel Terwilliger
1958-1959
Brad Records B-2210 / 45 rpm
HONEY BABY (Russ Regan)
SOMETHING JAPANESE (Strother & Strother)
with Mauro Bruno & Orchestra
Honey Baby recorded with Bell Sisters & Rex (their brother)
SCHOOL IS OVER (Strother)
THE BIG GOODBYE (Strother)
with Mauro Bruno & Orchestra
Gruß
Dietrich
