The Crew Cuts

On most informed lists of rock & roll villains, The Crew Cuts would have to rank near the top. They weren't rock & rollers in the first place: their clean-cut White harmony glee-club approach was really in the style of early and mid-'50s groups such as The Four Aces, The Four Lads, and The Four Freshmen. The Canadian quartet differed from those acts, however, in their concentration upon covers of songs originally recorded by R&B/doo wop vocal groups. Their cover of The Chords' "Sh-Boom" set the pattern, going to number one in 1954 and setting the stage for their other commercially successful pop treatments of R&B hits by The Penguins, Gene & Eunice, Otis Williams & The Charms, The Robins, The Spaniels, The Nutmegs, and others.



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