S3 productions Presents Ink Spots – The Gypsy / Everybody Is Saying Hello Again

12-29-2021

Ink Spots – The Gypsy / Everybody Is Saying Hello Again

Label: Decca – 18817,

Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM,

Released: Apr 1946,

Genre: Pop,

Style: Vocal with Instrumental Accompaniment,

A The Gypsy 73390,

Written-By – Billy Reid,

B Everyone Is Saying Hello Again (Why Must We Say Goodbye?) 73387,

Written-By – Jack Segal, Jerry Marlowe,

The Ink Spots

Profile:

The Ink Spots were a popular African-American vocal group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s. Best known for their recordings of Pop ballads, The Ink Spots were frequent chart toppers totaling over 50 hits in their 17 year recording career. Their best selling record "If I Didn't Care" sold over 19 million copies and is currently the 7th best selling single of all time.

Original Ink Spots
Founding members (1935): Orville Jones (bass), Deek Watson (tenor), Jerry Daniels (tenor) and Charlie Fuqua (baritone).
1936: Jerry Daniels is replaced by tenor Bill Kenny
1943: Charlie Fuqua is replaced by baritone Bernie Mackey
1943: Deek Watson replaced by tenor Billy Bowen
1945: baritone Huey Long briefly replaces Mackey before Charlie Fuqua returns in October 1945
1945: Orville "Hoppy" Jones replaced by bass singer Herb Kenny, Bill Kenny's twin brother

1946 Cashbox award for making "The Gypsy" the biggest money making song of the year.

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