The Flamingos

Artist: The Flamingos

LP: Requestfully Yours

Song: "In the Still of the Night"

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One of the stores the guys at My Mind's Eye Records said I should visit was Record Revolution in Cleveland Heights. The place was closed when I arrived, but there was a note on the door saying "be right back." The store re-opened a few minutes later when the clerk returned from the supermarket with several boxes of cereal. Record Revolution is quirky and cool, has good prices and a good selection, and, like many other record stores in Ohio, they have a basement full of records.

[ Record Revolution's basement full of records. ]

[ Record Revolution — Cleveland, OH ] 

Along with some early '80s rap, a few 7" singles, and a half-dozen cheap Elvis Presley movie soundtracks in pristine condition (I'd listened to "Elvis Radio" in the car the entire time I was in Cincinnati), I found this 1984 re-release of oft-requested tunes by The Flamingos, a Chicago doo-wop group who sent lots of singles to Hitsville in the mid-to-late 1950s. You can read all about The Flamingos and their numerous lineup changes here, find the "Requestfully Yours" liner notes below, and go here to listen to Cole Porter's "In the Still of the Night" as performed by a men's chorus.

[ The Flamingos in 1957 ]