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The Velvets were an American doo-wop group from Odessa, Texas, United States. They were formed in 1959 by Virgil Johnson, a high-school English teacher, with four of his students. Roy Orbison heard the group and signed them to Monument Records in 1960. Their first release was a tune called "That Lucky Old Sun". Their biggest hit single was "Tonight (Could Be the Night)", which hit #26 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1961. The follow-up, "Laugh", peaked at #90, and after a half-dozen further singles the group disbanded.

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  • The Velvets (engl. Die Samtenen) war eine amerikanische Doo-Wop-Gruppe aus Odessa in West-Texas. Das afroamerikanische Quintet wurde 1959 von Virgil Johnson, einem Englischlehrer an der Highschool, mit vier seiner Schüler gegründet. Roy Orbison hörte die Gruppe und verschaffte ihr 1960 einen Vertrag bei Monument Records. Die erste Veröffentlichung war das Stück That Lucky Old Sun. Die erfolgreichste Single war Tonight (Could be the Night), die 1961 in den amerikanischen Billboard-Charts Platz 26 erreichte. Die Stücke That Lucky Old Sun und Tonight (Could Be the Night) erreichten 1961 kurz Platz 46 bzw. Platz 50 in den britischen Singlecharts. Das danach veröffentlichte Stück Laugh erreichte Platz 90 und nach etwa 6 weiteren Singles löste sich die Gruppe 1961 auf. (de)
  • The Velvets were an American doo-wop group from Odessa, Texas, United States. They were formed in 1959 by Virgil Johnson, a high-school English teacher, with four of his students. Roy Orbison heard the group and signed them to Monument Records in 1960. Their first release was a tune called "That Lucky Old Sun". Their biggest hit single was "Tonight (Could Be the Night)", which hit #26 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1961. The follow-up, "Laugh", peaked at #90, and after a half-dozen further singles the group disbanded. (en)
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  • The Velvets (engl. Die Samtenen) war eine amerikanische Doo-Wop-Gruppe aus Odessa in West-Texas. Das afroamerikanische Quintet wurde 1959 von Virgil Johnson, einem Englischlehrer an der Highschool, mit vier seiner Schüler gegründet. Roy Orbison hörte die Gruppe und verschaffte ihr 1960 einen Vertrag bei Monument Records. Die erste Veröffentlichung war das Stück That Lucky Old Sun. Die erfolgreichste Single war Tonight (Could be the Night), die 1961 in den amerikanischen Billboard-Charts Platz 26 erreichte. Die Stücke That Lucky Old Sun und Tonight (Could Be the Night) erreichten 1961 kurz Platz 46 bzw. Platz 50 in den britischen Singlecharts. Das danach veröffentlichte Stück Laugh erreichte Platz 90 und nach etwa 6 weiteren Singles löste sich die Gruppe 1961 auf. Insgesamt wurden etwa 30 Stücke aufgenommen. Diese wurden 1996 auf einer Compact Disc bei Ace Records herausgegeben. (de)
  • The Velvets were an American doo-wop group from Odessa, Texas, United States. They were formed in 1959 by Virgil Johnson, a high-school English teacher, with four of his students. Roy Orbison heard the group and signed them to Monument Records in 1960. Their first release was a tune called "That Lucky Old Sun". Their biggest hit single was "Tonight (Could Be the Night)", which hit #26 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1961. The follow-up, "Laugh", peaked at #90, and after a half-dozen further singles the group disbanded. Virgil Johnson, a former deejay at Radio KDAV in Lubbock, Texas, was the lead tenor singer, with backup from Mark Prince (bass), Clarence Rigsby (tenor), Robert Thursby (first tenor), and William Solomon (baritone). The four were originally Johnson's eighth-grade pupils in an English class which he instructed in Odessa, also in West Texas, in the 1959-1960 school year. "That Lucky Old Sun" (#46) and "Tonight (Could Be the Night)" (#50) made brief appearances in the UK Singles Chart in 1961. Their complete recorded output runs to thirty songs, which were collected on one compact disc and released on Ace Records in 1996. (en)
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