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Steve Gibson and The Original Red Caps
Steve Gibson and The Original Red Caps
Would I Mind
Even if they hadn't pierced the R&B charts since 1944 (when they posted four hits in less than nine months), Steve Gibson and The Original Red Caps, as they were now billed, continued to record on a regular basis. Much like The Treniers, they remained a hot commodity on TV and onstage thanks to their dynamic live act.
Born October 17, 1914, the Lynchburg, Virginia-born Gibson, who sang bass and played guitar, and his Red Caps had shifted from Mercury Records to RCA Victor in November of 1950 and would stay there for half a decade. Personnel was pretty fluid, though tenor David Patillo (who was there when the group formed in a decade earlier as The 4 Toppers) and baritone/pianist Romaine Brown, who came on board a little later, were still on hand. For the June 18, 1951 New York date that produced the driving Would I Mind (it was issued the following month) with the tall, lanky Gibson out front as well as a rip-roaring remake of their proto-rock and roll Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night, the ranks were rounded out by Emmett Mathews (doubling on soprano sax, he'd come into the group in 1944) and new member Damita Jo, an Austin, Texas product who stood less than five feet tall.
Though The Red Caps' sound grew commercially passé on record, it was a different story live. Gibson's crew tore up East Coast and Vegas lounges year after year, playing packed houses in Wildwood, New Jersey (a 1955 promo photo shows Gibson, original tenor Jimmy Springs, and Patillo surrounded by a sizable crew including Treniers sidemen Henry Tucker Green on drums and Jimmy Johnson on electric bass, saxist Gene Redd, and another drummer: the young, white Bobby Gregg). Steve and Damita married in 1954 and divorced four years later; she proceeded to mount a successful solo career. The Red Caps tried to stay current, moving to ABC-Paramount in 1956 and cutting Rock And Roll Stomp. Their cover of The Rays' '57 smash Silhouettes cracked the low end of the pop hit parade.
The group split into two factions in 1962, the one without Gibson dubbing itself The Modern Red Caps and recording for Smash, Swan, and several other labels. Gibson's Red Caps employed some intriguing female vocalists at '60s engagements: future Motown thrushes Tammi Terrell and Barbara Randolph and '50s Specialty label star Wynona Carr. By the end of the decade, both groups were defunct.
Bill Dahl
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