Bell Tones/ Bell-Tones & Varied Credits
Bell Tones (Rama) (Freddy Elton & His Orch) – The Wedding/ Heart To Heart, ’55 (Rama 170)
- Scan found for ‘The Wedding’.
Bell Tones (TEK Label) (Kirk Taylor & The) – My Rosemarie/ Been So Long, ’58 (Tek 2634)
- Audio for both sides available on youtube.
Bell-Tones (Bronx-NY) – The Merengue/ I Love You, Darling, ’56 (Scatt 1609-1610)
Bell-Tones (Bronx-NY) as Belltones – Merengue/ I Love You, ’58 (J&S 1609-1610)
Five Bells (Chicago) as Bell-Tones (Chicago) – My Pledge To You/ There She Goes, ’61 (Clock 71889)
- Book also listed as Mercury (US 71889) which is issued for Del Wood ‘Creole Fandango/ My Adobe Hacienda.’
Belltones & Related Groups
Belltones (North Philly) (Accompanied by the Three Rockets)
– Estelle/ Promise Love, ’53 (Grand 102)
– Carol/ Crying Blues, ’53 (Grand-unreleased)
- While the book doesn’t list the flip, a group history at Classicurbanharmony lists the flip as ‘Crying Blues’ and others say it is ‘Tell Me Dear’.
- Their 2011 article can be found at North Philadelphia’s Francisville Groups: The Belltones, Little Joe Cooke & The Thrillers, Royal Demons, Madison Brothers.
Belltones (NY) (Lacille Watkins & The) – Maybe You’ll Be There/ His Hand In Mine, ’56 (Kapp 145)
Belltones (Unknown Origin) (J Brothers With The) – The Girl I Used To Know, ’58 (Mermaid 3360)
- No scans found.
- Scans found for a reissued release on Tirino #101 in 1973, credited as John And Jim.
- Sources with the Tirino label mention J Brothers but not the Belltones or the Mermaid label.
Belltones (Philadelphia Label) as Tony Morra (Frankie Gray and his Orchestra) (Vocal Chorus by Belltones) – My Baby Scares Me/ Claire, ’58 (Arcade 152)
Belltones (Ohio) – (Please Try) To Understand Me/ Swingin’ Little Chicky, ’63 (Olimpic 241 & Itzy 1, ‘65)
Belltones error – Ev’ry Day (It’s The Same)/ My Little Baby, ’57 (Cecil 5050)
- This is credited as The Johnny Bell Tones.
Beltones Groups
Beltones (NY) – I Talk To My Echo/ Oof Goof, ’57 (Hull 721)
as The Symbols
– Country Boy, ’58 (Old Town-unreleased)
– Crying My Heart Out, ’58 (Old Town-unreleased)
– Last Rose Of Summer, ’58 (Old Town-unreleased)
– Lover Lover Lover, ’58 (Old Town-unreleased)
As/ Old Town article by Marv Goldberg, the group recorded as the Symbols while still under contract with Hull.
as Masters
– A Man Is Not Supposed To Cry/ Look Out, ’61 (End 1100)
– I’m Searching/ Crying My Heart Out, ’62 (Le Sage 713-714)
as Ronnie Dove & The Bell-Tones – I’ll Be Around/ Lover Boy, ’59 (Dove 1021)
There is a acetate scan for Lover Boy credited as ‘Ronnie Dove & The Beltones.’
Beltones (Baltimore) (Ronnie Dove & The)
– Yes Darling, I’ll Be Around/ Party Doll, ’61 (Decca 31288)
– No Greater Love/ Sadest [sic] Song (Of The Year), ’62 (Jalo 1406)
as Ronnie Baker & The Deltones – My Story/ I Want To Be Loved, ’62 (Laurie 3128)
Beltones (Newark NJ) – I Want To Be Loved/ You’ve Got What It Takes, ’62 (Jell 188)
- The Delltones (Australia) (ref Ian ‘Peewee’ Wilson) ‘You’ve Got What It Takes, ’95 (Sunshine Club Album)’ is a different cover than the Beltones version.
as Ronnie Baker – Glory Be/ This Big Wide World, ’63 (Jell 200)
Beltones (Louisiana) (Lance Farr & The) – Mary Lisa/ Too Much Ain’t Enough, ’64 (N-Joy 1001)