The Five Keys - Five Keys Collection 1951-58 (CD)

Doowop and R&B vocal group The Five Keys were often called "the group's group" because they were top class exponents among the doowop fraternity whose style and technique many other groups tried to emulate, and who were instrumental in shaping the genre during the early 1950s. Starting life as The Sentimental Four in Newport News, Virginia, they evolved to become The Five Keys, signing to Aladdin Records in 1951, and later moving to Capitol in 1954, with whom they stayed until 1958. This great-value 85-track 3-CD set comprises their A & B sides for both Aladdin and Capitol during these years, which encompassed their R&B and pop chart career, the repertoire ranging across both new compositions and imaginative interpretations of Great American Songbook standards. It also includes titles from their 1957 album "The Five Keys On Stage", which were not otherwise recorded as singles. It features all their career hits, including the R&B No. 1 "The Glory Of Love", and the Top 5 R&B hits "Ling Ling Tong" and "Close Your Eyes" plus the Top 20 hits "'Cause You're My Lover", "The Verdict", "Gee Whittakers" and "Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind". It's a comprehensive overview of the primary era of their career, when they enjoyed their greatest success and influence, and a fine showcase for the complex and sophisticated harmonies which made them such a definitive doowop group

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. With a Broken Heart
2. Too Late
3. The Glory of Love
4. Hucklebuck with Jimmy
5. It's Christmas Time
6. Yes Sir That's My Baby
7. Old Mac Donald
8. Darling
9. Goin' Downtown
10. Be Anything, But Be Mine
11. Red Sails in the Sunset
12. Mistakes
13. How Long
14. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
15. Hold Me
16. I Cried for You
17. Serve Another Round
18. Can't Keep from Crying
19. Come Go My Bail, Louise
20. Mama (Your Daughter Told a Lie on Me)
21. There Ought to Be a Law (Against Breaking a Heart)
22. I'll Always Be in Love with You
23. Rocking and Crying Blues
24. These Foolish Things
25. Lonesome Old Story
26. I'm So High

Disc: 2

1. Teardrops in Your Eyes
2. Oh! Babe!
3. My Saddest Hour
4. Someday Sweetheart
5. Love My Loving
6. Deep in My Heart
7. How Do You Expect Me to Get It
8. My Love
9. Why, Oh Why
10. Story of Love
11. I'll Follow You
12. Lawdy Miss Mary
13. Ling, Ting, Tong
14. I'm Alone
15. Close Your Eyes
16. Doggone It, You Did It
17. The Verdict
18. Me Make Um Pow Wow
19. Don't You Know I Love You
20. I Wish I'd Never Learned to Read
21. Cause You're My Lover
22. Gee Whittakers
23. What Goes on
24. You Broke the Rules of Love
25. I Dreamt I Dwelt in Heaven
26. She's the Most
27. Peace and Love
28. My Pigeon's Gone

Disc: 3

1. Out of Sight, Out of Mind
2. That's Right
3. Wisdom of a Fool
4. Now Don't That Prove I Love You
5. Let There Be You
6. Tiger Lily
7. It's a Groove
8. Four Walls
9. The Blues Don't Care
10. This I Promise You
11. The Face of An Angel
12. Boom-Boom
13. Do Anything
14. It's a Cryin' Shame
15. From Me to You
16. Whippety Whirl
17. With All My Love
18. You're for Me
19. Handy Andy
20. Emily Please
21. One Great Love
22. Really-O Truly-O
23. Just for the Thrill
24. Who Do You Know in Heaven (That Made You the Angel You Are')
25. To Each His Own
26. Maybe You'll Be There
27. The Gypsy
28. From the Bottom of My Heart
29. C'est la Vie
30. Dream
31. All I Need Is You