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Patti La Belle and The Blue Belles
Patti La Belle and The Blue Belles
Down The Aisle (Wedding Song)
I Sold My Heart To The Junkman, their first hit on Harold B. Robinson's Newtown label, didn't even feature their voices. But from then on there was no mistaking Patti La Belle's rafter-rattling leads, or Sarah Dash, Nona Hendryx, and Cindy Birdsong's harmonies. The Blue Belles were Philly's answer to The Supremes.
Born May 24, 1944 in Philly, Patsy Holte was a shy girl who nonetheless lit up her local church with her powerhouse singing. After a couple of ill-fated tries to get a girl group going, she was teamed by manager Bernard Montague with Nona (born October 9, 1944) and Sarah (born August 18, 1945), both from Trenton, New Jersey, in The Ordettes. Cindy, born December 15, 1939 in Mount Holly, N.J., came in last. Robinson, who owned a Chrysler/Plymouth dealership and had a recording studio in his showroom's basement, cut a Chicago group, The Starlets, singing Junkman. He then had The Ordettes assume the identity of The Blue Belles because The Starlets were already signed to Pam Records back home. Lawsuits aplenty resulted, and Patti's group recut the theme for Newtown at an even faster tempo than The Starlets did it at. After that, La Belle (a surname Robinson dreamed up) and her girls would do their own recording for Newtown.
The Blue Belles' next Newtown offerings - I Found A New Love, the rocking Tear After Tear and Academy Award - didn't click commercially. They nailed their first hit that they actually sang on with the sugary ballad Down The Aisle (Wedding Song), written by Robinson under an alias. Patti's stratospheric lead surely shook those basement walls. Robinson worked out a national distribution with King and it went to #14 R&B and #37 pop in the late summer of 1963 (C'est La Vie [So Goes Life] rode the flip), establishing The Blue Belles as an entity unto themselves.
The quartet waxed a bravura rendition of the inspirational You'll Never Walk Alone that debuted on Robinson's Nicetown logo but was picked up by Parkway and became their first hit of 1964. Their treatment of the ancient Danny Boy made some noise later that year before Atlantic scooped them up in '65. There they cut the original Groovy Kind Of Love and Over The Rainbow, still Patti's signature song. Birdsong replaced Florence Ballard in The Supremes in 1967, The Blue Belles staying a trio. British manager Vicki Wickham remade them into Labelle at the dawn of the '70s; they donned glamorously outlandish outfits and escaped the R&B pigeonhole, scoring a 1975 pop chart-topper with the bawdy Allen Toussaint-produced Lady Marmalade for Epic. Patti went solo in '77; she perpetually blows audiences away with her phenomenal pipes.
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