Debonaires & Related Groups

 

Debonaires (Long Island NY)

– Won’t You Tell Me/ I’m Gone, ’56 (Gee 1008)

• No scans found.

– We’ll Wait/ Make Believe Lover, ’59 (Gee 1054)

– Best Love/ I’d Climb The Highest Mountain (Gee-Unreleased)

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Five Debonaires – Darlin’/ Whispering Blues, ’57 (Herald 509)

 

as Debonaires (Atlanta) – Darling/ Whispering Blues, ’57 (Herald 509)

This is the only release by this group as either the Five Debonaires or Debonaires.

• They are from Atlanta and unconnected to the Debonaires on Gee.

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Debonaires (Connecticut) – This Must Be Paradise/ I Need You Darling, ’58 (Elmont 1004)

• Writing credits: Rodina Rodina Jordan/ Rodina Rodina Kappa.

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Debonaires (Girl Group-PA) – Every Other Day/ Jivin’ Guy, ’59 (Maske 804)

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Debonaires (Long Beach CA) 

– Every Once In A While/ Mama Don’t Care, ’59 (Doré 526)

– Every Once In A While/ Gert’s Skirt, ’61 (Doré 592)

– Hold Back The Dawn/ Mama Don’t Care, ’62 (Doré 654)

 

as Debonairs

– Every Once In Awhile/ Gert’s Skirt, ’63 (Doré 702)

– Everybody’s Movin’/ Mama Don’t Care, ’64 (Doré 712)

 

as Jades (Long Beach) – Hold Back The Dawn/ When They Ask About You, ’63 (Doré 687)

• Scans found.

 

With different personnel, the ‘Doré’ Debonaires are a reformed group out of the ‘Combo’ Debonairs from 1957.

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Debonaires (Detroit)

– Please Don’t Say We’re Through/ A Little Too Long, ’64 (Golden World 17)

– Please Don’t Say We’re Through/ Eenie, Meenie, Gypsaleenie, ’65 (Golden World 26)

– How’s Your New Love Treating You/ Big Time Fun, ’66 (Golden World 38)

– COD (Collect On Delivery)/ How’s Your New Love Treating You, ’66 (Golden World 44)

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Debonaires (Indiana) (Dickie & The) – Please Mr Disc Jockey/ Yo Yo Girl, ’62 (Valli 302)

• Book dated 1965.  Others also date 1960.

as Debonairs (Dickie & The) – Yoyo Girl/ Please Mr Disc Jockey, ’79 (Jason Scott 19)

• Book dated 1982.

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Debonaires (Reggae Ska Group) – In The Rain/ Spanish Harlem, ‘72 (Tobin 340)

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Debonaires (Funk Group) – I Want To Talk About It (World) Pt 1/ I Want To Talk About It (World) Pt 2, ’67 (Galaxy 787)

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Debonairs Groups & Related Artists

 

Debonairs (Chicago)

• Note:  While listing as separate groups, the book is correct.
• A thoroughly researched article by Marv Goldberg linked the groups together and further noted spelling oddities.

 

as De’Bonairs

– Lanky Linda/ Mothers [sic] Son, ’56 (Ping 1000)

– Say A Prayer For Me/ Cracker-Jack Daddy, ’56 (Ping 1001)

 

as The Teeners backing Lulu [sic] Reed – Give Me The Right/ Anything To Say You’re Mine, ’58 (Argo 5298)

 

Debonairs (Chicago) – Ah-La-La/ Fools [sic] Love, ’61 (B&F 1353)

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Debonairs (Long Beach CA)

– (Why Can’t We Be) As Other Lovers Are/ The Bill Collector, ’57 (Combo 129)

• No B-side scan.

– Cause Of A Bad Romance/ For The Women I Love, ’58 (Combo 149)

• ‘Women’ is reported to be a label misprint.
  • Title was to have been ‘For The Woman I Love’ with some sources stating a second pressing corrected the error.
    • No scans found for the corrected issue. 

 

credited as Debonaires – Cause Of A Bad Romance, ’87 (Relic LP 5069 (2-4))

 

With different personnel, the Long Beach group reforms in 1959 as The ‘Debonaires.’

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Debonairs (Philadelphia) – Crazy Kind Of Love/ To Be Without You, ’60 (Winter 502)

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Debonairs (Ohio) (Danny & The) – I Guess I’m Through With Love, ’61 (Debonair 2250)

• Book listed as Debonaires (Bob & The).

 

Debonairs (Ohio) (Bob & The) – So Blue, ’61 (Debonair 2251)

• Book listed as Debonaires.

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