Fortunes (Chicago)
– Believe In Me/ My Baby Is Fine, ’55 (Checker 818)
– Love (Recorded 1955), ’90 (Relic LP 5088 (A8))
– Break (Recorded 1955), ’90 (Relic LP 5088 (B8))
– Love/ Bread (Recorded 1955), ’93/94 (Parrot 804 (Boot) & Relic LP 7073 (#13, #24)
As/ the all music site, as well as Donald Jenkins, other gms are: Granger, Strong and bass William Taylor.
Colts (3rd group) as Fortunes (Calif)
– How Clever Of You/ Trees, ’58 (Decca 30688)
– Who Cares/ Tarnished Angel, ’58 (Decca 30541)
Fortunes (ref Rank Records Of America) – Steady Vows/ In The Night, ’59 (Top Rank 2019)
- Scans found.
- Bootleg promo scans for #2019 are as ’Steady Vows’ (Fortunes) and ‘Whiskey Made Me Drunk’ (Roscoe Gordon).
Fortunes (Larry Darnell-Lead) – Look At Me, Look At You/ Congratulations, ’60 (Argo 5364)
- Writing credits: D Sturgill on both sides.
- The book separated this release from the Checker/Parrot/Relic issues.
- The listing was Larry Darnell & The Fortunes but the label credits only as ‘Fortunes.’
as Neal Scott (The Fortunes) – Go Bohemian, ’60 (Clown 3011)
as Neal Scott – Oh Genie, ’60 (Clown 3011)
Fortunes (Cincinnati-Queen) – Ugly Duckling/ Nothing Matters Anymore, ’61 (Queen 24010)
- Writing credits: Don Crawford-Jimmy Starr-Nick Smith & R Ashcroft-C Spoke.
Fortunes (California) – Running Away From Love/ Tell Me, ’62 (DRA 320)
- Writing credits: Helen Martell.
Fortunes (Cub Label) (w Adam Keefe as ‘Professional Ghoul’) – The Ghoul In School, ’63 (Cub 9123)
- A-side full title is ’The Ghoul In School (Theme from “Werewolf In A Girls’ Dormitory”).
Fortunes (Cub Label) – You Don’t Know (What I’ve Been Thru [sic]), ’63 (Cub 9123)
Fortunes (New Mexico Label)
– Chi-Wa-Wa/ The Laugh Of The Town, ’64 (Yucca 168)
- Scans found.
– Lonely Teardrops (Vocal-Jim Decker)/ This Is Love (Vocal Steve Rollins), ’64 (Yucca 170 & Bishop 1005, ’80)
- Bishop 1005 is without vocal credit.
Muissing label scan
https://www.discogs.com/de/The-Fortunes-Chi-Wa-Wa-The-Laugh-Of-The-Town/release/13222865
The answer to the mixed-up reporting from various sources I read (and at one time included in the post) are now answered. Thanks for the great Yucca 168 scan link.