Bell Hops (NY) – Please Don’t Say No To Me/ Merchant Street Blues, ’56 (Tin Pan Alley 153-154)
gms: Frankie Tamburo, Harry Tamburo and Sal Tamburo as/ Whitedoowopcollector.
They became the Voxpoppers.
Bell Hops (NY)
– Please Pretty Please/ Searching, ’57 (Tin Pan Alley 183-84)
- Not in book. Listen @ youtube.com/watch?v=IiwKsFdIvKw.
– Ring Dang Doo Ting A Ling/ Angela, ’58 (Barb 100)
– Teenage Years/ Carmella, ’58 (Barb 101-102)
gms (second group): Paul La Rocca, Larry Bene & Chuck Bowman as/ whitedoowopcollector.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-bell-hops.html.
Bell Hops (Alabama) (Buddy White & The) – For Your Love/ Who But A Fool, ’60 (The Wheeler Dealers 501)
Bell Hops A-side Please Pretty Please is Tin Pan Alley 183
Bell Hops B-side Searching is Tin Pan Alley 184
Revied in Cah Box and Billboard
https://archive.org/stream/cashbox18unse_24#page/44/mode/2up/search/Bell+Hops
https://books.google.de/books?id=MCAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=Bell+hops#v=onepage&q=Bell hops&f=false
Hi. I read the contradicting reviews in Cash Box and Billboard. The reviewers seem to be looking for different content. At the time, Larry Bene was the lead. There are still no scans but both sides play at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiwKsFdIvKw.
Thanks for sending the article links. Stay well.