Time: 30:23
Size: 69.6 MB
Styles: Vocal group
Year: 2015
Art: Front
[1:56] 1. Maybe You'll Be There
[2:50] 2. Why Baby
[2:14] 3. That Old Feeling
[2:48] 4. I Can't Get Started
[2:45] 5. The Gypsy
[2:39] 6. Whispering Grass
[2:11] 7. With Every Breath I Take
[2:10] 8. I'm Glad For Your Sake
[2:34] 9. Faded Rose
[2:11] 10. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
[2:04] 11. Trouble In Mind
[2:20] 12. So Tired
[1:36] 13. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Perhaps the greatest male vocal group of the Interlude Era, The Hilltoppers, had a very inauspicious beginning. They began as a vocal trio with the members being Jimmy Sacca, Seymour Spiegelman, and Donald McGuire who were students at Western Kentucky University in the town of Bowling Green. One of Sacca's acquaintances was a pianist in a territory band in the area named Billy Vaughn. A song written by Vaughn was given a run through by the trio, and through various rehearsals Vaughn himself was added to the vocal mix and the trio was now a quartet. As the story goes, the guys gathered around a piano in the corner of the campus auditorium at something like one a.m. on a spring night in 1952 and tape recorded the new song called "Trying". The tape was then given to a local radio deejay who liked the tune and soon got in touch with Randy Wood the head of Dot Records in suburban Nashville, Tennessee. Wood listened to the tape and was duly impressed and signed the quartet to his label. The group then took their name from the Western Kentucky University athletic teams nickname, The Hilltoppers.
The Hilltoppers