The Original Bluebelles

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The Original Bluebelles

R&B/Soul, Rock and Pop
A.k.a. The Bracelets (2) The Starlets (2)

Soul/R&B girl group from Chicago, IL. Actually named The Starlets (2), they recorded a new version of "I Sold My Heart To The Junkman" (originally by The Basin Street Boys from 1946) in 1961 but the song was released under another group's name: The Blue Belles. After getting caught lip-synching on American Bandstand, Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles were sued by The Starlets; each member received $5,000 in damages. Patti LaBelle And The Bluebells then re-recorded a 3rd version: -2nd version: the lead singer (over the backing vocals) starts the song by "oh yeah" twice. -3rd version: the lead singer (behind the backing vocals) starts the song by "oh yeah, uh uh". Peak (3) Records released the original recordings ("I Sold My Heart To The Junkman" / "I've Got To Let Him Know") in '64 under the "wrong" name "The Blue Belles". Rainbow Records (23) did the same with two other recordings the same year.

Genres

R&B/Soul
Rock
Pop

Discography

Title	Artist	Year	Type
I Sold My Heart To The Junkman / I've Got To Let Him Know	The Original Bluebelles	1964	Single
The Groups Are The Greatest, The Greatest Of The Groups	The Shirelles / The Angels / The Kingsmen / The Isley Brothers / The Rocky Fellers / The Original Bluebelles	1964	Compil.
You're Just Fooling Yourself / You Better Move On	The Original Bluebelles	1964	Single

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Acknowledgements

To all the music fans that are contributing on Discogs, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. Thanks to Franz Flückiger for providing Storygram used to visualize band membership.

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