Penguins-Earth Angel

All copies of the 45 that are original Dootone/Dooto pressings are missing the full intro. Any that has the full intro, is a bootleg, and they do exist.

aaronk wrote: "A high quality pressing on a Dootone reissue 45 from the 70's or early 80's does have the full intro to both songs without fading in to them. (This might be a bootleg although it does have the street address of the record company on the label.) Also, a 45 re-issue on the Power label has the full intro for both sides."

That is a bootleg...i forget where it first turned up with the full intro but the Dooto bootleg was copied off of that source... one of my vinyl collecting buddies who does a radio show that specializes in playing only the original vinyl pressings, and is very well versed in all sorts of various pressings of over a hundred thousand different records, confirmed this with me.

Pat, I notice that the database has not been updated to reflect the information provided by the above posters.

My U.S. commercial 45, which does not state a run time, runs (2:49). This is also the run time given in Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual. It is missing the first five seconds of the version commonly found on CD. Previous posters describe the intro on the 45 as a fade-in, but I don't detect a fade-in; to my ears the first five seconds were simply chopped off.

My copy has a black label which, according to the twelfth edition of Jerry Osborne's The Official Price Guide To Records, was one of four label variations Dootone used during the song's chart run in 1954-1955. In the mid-1980s I purchased a copy of Dootone 348 with the full intro that was in such prestine condition that it appeared to be brand new. This led me to immediately question its authenticity. The above posters would confirm these suspicions a quarter of a century later. The label on this unauthorized reproduction differs enough from any of the labels Dootone used in the 1950s to be easily identifiable.

This one is confusing me, nearly every version of this song in the DB reads (contains the complete
introduction which is not included on the 45) except for the (rerecording) versions. Yet
contrasting the songs taken from "Shout! Factory 10664 Doo Wop Love Songs (Box Set)" &
"Time-Life 21078 Street Corner Symphonies" they clearly have a different beginning and ending yet
are described the same.

Edited by boynamedfoo

I still contend that one of these two should be listed as an alternate take or rerecording, as
"Street Corner.." has piano playing 4 or 5 notes under the last sung note of "YOU", whilst "Doo
Wop Love Songs" plays it's last piano note under "WITH", also the 3rd part of the 4 part harmony
of "You" is noticeably different between the two.