Kirby Stone Four

The Kirby Stone Four were an American vocal group that was popular in the 1950s and the early 1960s.

The singer Kirby Stone ( * April 27, 1918 in New York City; † 13 July 1981) founded the group in the years after the Second World War with Eddie Hall, Mike Gardner and Larry Forster and began her perform in the New York area. They first appeared in local television, eventually on the Ed Sullivan Show and were initially at the small label Cadence Records a record deal, where her single S S S S ' Wonderful / Raven and a first LP appeared; In 1958 she switched to the label, Columbia Records. There followed several LPs; their version of the song Baubles, Bangles and Beads 1958 a Hiterfolg in the United States and reached # 25 on the Billboard Hot 100, the song was also nominated for the Grammy Awards. After the success of the single, the album reached # 13 on the Billboard 200 It contained mostly show pieces, pop and jazz standards such as In the Good Old Summertime, George Gershwin Bidin ' My Time or Whispering by Vincent Rose.

As a sideman worked with the orchestra by Jimmy Carroll, the Kai Winding Quartet, Alvino Rey, Shelly Manne, and Al Klink in the recordings of the Kirby Stone Four. In her ensemble style they mixed swing, vocalese and early rock & roll, which then changed its name as " The Go Sound". Until the mid-1960s, she made ​​guest appearances in television shows such as the Judy Garland Show. Then came her style out of fashion. In 1966, she took on more of a rock & roll album with The Tokens under the Grauppennamen United States Double Quartet. During this period, Stone directed various TV shows

Some of their recordings were re-released on CD by Collectables Records.

Disco printing specifications

• Man, I Flipped When I Heard the Kirby Stone Four ( Cadence Records, 1958)
• Baubles, Bangles and Beads (Columbia, 1958)
• The Go Sound
• The Kirby Stone Touch