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Velours The
Velours (members Jerome "Romeo" Ramos,
John Cheetom, Donald Heywood, Kenneth Walker and Marvin
Holland)
Onyx 501 - My Love Come
Back / Honey Drop - 1956
Onyx 508 - Romeo / What You Do To Me - 1957 (after
this release Kenneth Walker and Marvin Holland leave
group and are replaced by Charles Moffitt and John
Pearson --- this is the most valuable of all
their recordings)
Onyx 512 - Can I Come Over Tonight / Where
There's A Will (There's A Way) - 1957
Onyx 515 - This Could Be The Night / Hands Across The
Table - 1957
Onyx 520 - Remember / Can I Walk You Home - 1958
Orbit 9001 - Remember / Can I Walk You Home - 1958
Cub 9014 - I'll Never Smile Again / Crazy Love - 1958 (on
this release the group added another tenor - Troy Keyes
(who in 1963 recorded on the Atco record label as a
member of The High Keys and went on to make a number of
solo recordings such as "Love Explosion" on ABC
11027 in 1967 plus a 1968 duet with Norma Jenkins
"A Good Love Gone Bad" on ABC
11116). Troy Keyes sings lead on this release. Troy
Keyes then leaves group and Keith Williams joins)
Cub 9029 - Blue Velvet / Tired Of Your Rock And
Rollin' - 1958
Studio 9902 - Little Sweetheart / I Promise - 1959
Gone 5092 - Can I Come Over Tonight / Where There's
A Will - 1960
Goldisc 3012 - Sweet Sixteen / Daddy Warbucks -
1960
End 1090 - The Lonely One / Lover Come Back - 1961(after
this release Charles Moffitt, Keith Williams and John
Pearson leave group -- John Pearson becoming road manager
for The Flamingos ---- Richard Pitts formerly from The
Newtones (who had a 1958 release on Baton 260
"Remember The Night") joins the group)
Relic 502 - Romeo / ? - 1964
Relic 503 - My Love Come Back / ? - 1964
Relic 504 - Can I Come Over Tonight / ? - 1964
Relic 516 - This Could Be The Night / ? - 1964
Rona 010 - Woman For Me / ? - 1966
The Velours (members
Jerome "Romeo" Ramos, John Cheetom, Donald
Heywood and Richard Pitts)
MGM 13780 - I'm Gonna
Change / Don't Pity Me - 1967
The Fantastics (in
1968 the group decided to change their name and take
their chances as part of a Soul explosion in England,
members Jerome "Romeo" Ramos, John Cheetom,
Donald Heywood and Richard Pitts)
MGM 1434 - Baby Make Your
Own Sweet Music / Who Could Be Loving You - 1968
Deram 264 - Face To Face With Heartache / This Must Be My
Rainy Day - 1969
Deram 283 - Ask The Lonely / Waiting Round For The
Heartaches - 1970
Deram 334 - For The Old Times Sake / Exodus Main Theme -
1971
Deram 7528 - Face To Face With Heartache / This Must Be
My Rainy Day - 197?
Bell 977 - Something Old, Something New / High And
Dry - 1971
Bell 1141 - Something Old, Something New / High And Dry -
1971
Bell 1162 - Something Wonderful / Man Made The World -
1971
Bell 45,157 - (Love Me) Love The Life I Lead / Old Rags
And Tatters - 1971
Bell 45,279 - Best Of Strangers Now / Something To
Remember You By - 1972
Polydor 2027004 - Baby Make Your Own Sweet Music / Who
Could Be Loving You - 1971
The Velours
Lost-Nite 400 - This Could
Be The Night / Hands Across The Table - ?
Clifton 75 - C'est La Vie / Good Loving - 197?
Clifton 82 - Old Fashioned Christmas / I Wish You Love -
197?
The Velours /
James Myers
Clifton 100 - C'est La Vie
/ World Of Fantasy* - 197? *flip by James
Myers.
The Velours
Starlight 19 - This Could
Be The Night / Mio Amore - 1984
Classic Artists 136 - I Apologize / We Are Made As
One - 1994 (1000 red vinyl copies made total - 100
were promo issue only)
Group Info.
In the mid 1970's John
Cheetom began working in a European version of The
Platters.
Donald Heywood kept the
group The Fantastics going in the U.K.
Jerome Ramos returned to
the U.S.A.
Charles Moffitt died in
the late 1980's a victim of a senseless attack.
Discography by Bosko
Asanovic
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