Kool Gents & Related Groups

Kool Gents

– This Is The Night/ Do Ya Do, ’56 (Vee-Jay 173)

– You Know/ I Just Can’t Help Myself, ’56 (Vee-Jay 207)

– Just Like A Fool/ When I Call On You, ’56 (Vee-Jay-Unreleased)

– Crazy Over You (Lead John McHall-recorded 1956), ‘84 (Solid Smoke LP 8026 & Charly LP 1115)

  • No info found for book listing on Charly LP 1115.

 

as The Kool-Gents – Just Like A Fool/ When I Call On You, ’74 (Broadcast 1102)

  • Scans found.

 

as Delegates (Chicago)

The Convention, ’56 (Vee-Jay 212)

  • Flip ‘Jay’s Rock’ is by Big Jay McNeely.

– Mother’s Son/ I’m Gonna Be Glad, ’57 (Vee-Jay 243)

 

as El Dorados

  • New Group-Lead Pirkle Lee Moses of the original El Dorados.
  • Dee Clark was no longer with the Kool Gents.

– Trouble Trouble, ’57 (Vee-Jay-Unreleased & Charly LP 1022 (B2))

– She Don’t Run Around, ’57 (Vee-Jay-Unreleased & Charly LP 1022 (B8)

3 Reasons Why/ Boom Diddie Boom, ’58 (Vee-Jay 263)

  • Boom Diddie Boom is often listed as Boom Diddle Boom.
  • Post is/ scan.

– Lights Are Low/ Oh What A Girl, ’58 (Vee-Jay 302)

 

credited as Dee Clark

– Gloria/ Kangaroo Hop, ’57 (Falcon 1002)

– Gloria/ You’re Lookin’ Good, ’60 (Vee Jay 355)

 

Dee Clark With Riley Hampton Orch

– When I Call On You/ Nobody But You, ’58 (Abner 1019)

  • ‘When I Call On You’ was re-recorded for this release.

 

released on LPs as Dee Clark

– Just Like A Fool, ’60 (Vee Jay LP 1019 (1-1), Solid Smoke LP 8026, ’84 & Charly LP 1113 (#2), ‘86)

– I Just Can’t Help Myself, ’60 (Vee Jay LP 1019 (1-4) & Charly LP 1113 (#6), ‘86)


 

Kool Gents (NY) – Picture On The Wall/ Come To Me, ’63 (Bethlehem 3061)

  • Distributed by King Records.
  • This is a different group than the Vee-Jay Kool Gents and DeRoy Green & The Cool Gents.