Bill Baker – I Wanna Know/ Is It A Dream, ’61 (Audicon 115)
- Book listed BB as Del-Satins. No BB is credited on the label.
- See comments below.
Bill Baker – Just To Be Near You/ To The Aisle, ’62 (Audicon 118)
as Five Satins – To The Aisle/ Just To Be Near You, ‘62 (Musictone 1108)
Bill Baker – Thank Heaven/ Is It A Dream, ’63 (Vim (Variety In Music) 515)
- Other sources date as 1962.
Bill Baker (& Group) – Thank Heaven (Vim (Variety In Music) 515A)
Bill Baker (w The Del-Satins) – Is It A Dream (Vim (Variety In Music) 515B)
- Promo reissue.
- Who are these Del Satins members?
Bill Baker (& Group) – Thank Heaven/ The Price Of Love (Vim (Variety In Music) 515)
- A different #515 pressing.
Bill Baker (formerly of The Five Satins) – Teen Age Triangle/ Why Did Summer Have To End, ’62 (MusicNote 119)
Bill Baker (& Group) – There’s A Small Hotel/ Bleeding Hearts (Parnaso 227)
- The book dated N/A and listed asby ‘Baby Dolls’ (CT). No scans found.
- Titles appear on Bill Baker albums with an unknown backing group and Parnaso 1500 crediting the artist as ‘Unknown’.
- There are scans on Etc … 227 crediting Bill Baker.
Bill Baker & Ork – Another Sleepless Night/ It Shouldn’t Happen To A Dream, ’65 (Parnaso 110)
- The book listed as Baby Dolls (Bill Baker & The). The Baby Dolls are uncredited on the label.
Bill Baker’s Satins – Crying In The Chapel/ In The Still Of The Night, ’84 (Clifton 74)
- Book listed under Baker’s Satins.
Bill Baker’s Five Satins – I’ll Be Seeing You LP, ’87 (Del Cam 1000)
Side One: I’ll Be Seeing You, Stardust, Under The Boardwalk, Higher & Higher, Fool For A Pretty Face, Story Untold.
Side Two: Sam Cooke Medley, Let’s Twist Again, So Fine, Silhouette, Personality, Today’s World.
Missing scan:
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BTW: the backing group on Audicon 115 and Audicon 118 are The Del-Satins (uncredited).
Thanks for the MusicNote 119 b-side link. I’m not sure about these Del-Satins; are they the Dion-related group or someone different. Their group history does not mention the Audicon segment of their career.
Stan Ziska of The Del-Satins produced rhe CDs “Del-Satins Back From Lunch” Vols 1&2.
I Wanna Know / Is It A Dream is on Vol. 1.
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On Vol. 2 are several unreleased Bill Baker songs.
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Just To Be Near You / To The Aisle is on the CD “Bill Baker and his groups”.
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Stan Ziska also mentions the backup work for Bill Baker in his Del-Satins biography.
http://www.tangerinemusic.com/original.htm
We can validate Bill Baker’s uncredited Audicon BB through Stan Zizka’s Del-Satins’ biography. The book does not include the Del-Satins’ comps but the information they contain is valuable support. Thanks for all your work.
Bill Baker again.
VIM 515 is a mystery.
Promo labels say: Thank Heaven b/w Is It A Dream
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Labels of released record say: Thank Heaven b/w The Price Of Love
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(youtube.com/watch?v=zZBBOsefN-8) shows both the Audicon for ‘Is It A dream’ and Vim a&b sides (Thank Heaven/ Is It A Dream.’ I accept that ‘The Price Of Love’ is a different pressing of Vim #515, either original or after the A/B-side scans.