The Mello-Moods
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The Mello-Moods were an American
R&B musical ensemble
, operating from the late 1940s to mid-1950s.
Their members were Ray "Buddy" Wooten, Bobby Williams, Monteith P. "Monte" Owens, Alvin "Bobby" Baylor and Jimmy Bethea. Composed of teenagers, the group's music was nonetheless focused on an adult market. After the band broke up in 1953, Baylor, Owens and Williams went to join another band, The Solitaires
.
Monte Owens died on March 3, 2011 in the Bronx
, New York
, after illness, at the age of 74.
label, and two on Prestige Records
.
United States
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R&B musical ensemble
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
, operating from the late 1940s to mid-1950s.
Their members were Ray "Buddy" Wooten, Bobby Williams, Monteith P. "Monte" Owens, Alvin "Bobby" Baylor and Jimmy Bethea. Composed of teenagers, the group's music was nonetheless focused on an adult market. After the band broke up in 1953, Baylor, Owens and Williams went to join another band, The Solitaires
The Solitaires
The Solitaires are an American doo wop group, best remembered for their 1957 hit single, "Walking Along".Formed in Harlem in 1953, the band consisted of Herman Curtis, Buzzy Willis and Pat Gaston , and Monte Owens, Bobby Baylor and Bobby Williams...
.
Monte Owens died on March 3, 2011 in the Bronx
The Bronx
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, New York
New York City
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, after illness, at the age of 74.
Discography
The group released four records, two on the Red RobinRed Robin
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label, and two on Prestige Records
Prestige Records
Prestige Records was a jazz record label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock. The company was located at 203 South Washington Avenue in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under the names of several...
.
- "How Could You" / "Where Are You (Now That I Need You)", Red Robin (105), released 1951. This reached the Top 10 in the USUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
BillboardBillboard (magazine)Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
R&BHot R&B/Hip-Hop SongsHot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...
chartRecord chartA record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
in 1952, and, according to Joel WhitburnJoel WhitburnJoel Carver Whitburn is an American author and music historian.Whitburn founded Record Research Inc. in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, in 1970, and put together a team of researchers to examine in detail all of Billboards music and video charts...
, original copies have the highest cash value, $2000, of any record ever making the R&B chart. - "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night", Red Robin (104), released 1952
- "Call on Me", Prestige Records (799), recorded in 1952, released 1952
- "I'm Lost", Prestige Records (852), recorded in 1952, released 1953