Rockin' Chairs

The Rockin' Chairs
The Rockin' Chairs
Origin	Queens Village, New York
Genres	doo-wop
Years active	1958–1959
Labels	Recorte Records, CBS Records
Past members	Lenny Dean (leader); Bob Gerardi; Carmine Ray; Rick Baxter; Joey Cary;

The Rockin' Chairs were a doo-wop recording group based in Queens Village, New York active in 1958 and 1959.^[2]^[4]

Discography

Title	Year	Catalog	Comments
A Kiss Is a Kiss / Rockin' Chair Boogie	1958^[2]	Recorte 402^[2]	200,000 copies sold^[2]
Please Mary Lou / Come On Baby	1958^[2]	Recorte 404^[2]
Memories of Love / Girl of Mine	1959^[2]	Recorte 412^[2]	with backup from Nino and the Ebb Tides^[3]

Billboard described their A Kiss Is a Kiss as a "hot record."^[5]

When the band played Please Mary Lou on Alan Freed's Big Beat television show, Freed commented that it sounded like Paul Anka's "Diana."^[2]

Billboard described their Memories of Love recording as having an "overly long intro" and described the recording as "none too good."^[6]

All three of their a-side recordings are considered among the top 1000 doo-wop songs of all time.^[7]

^ Rizzo, Ken (March 2008). "Reinventing an Artistic Life". Allegro. CVIII (3).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Rosalsky, Mitch (2002). Encyclopedia of Rhythm and Blues and Doo Wop Vocal Groups. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. pp. 485–486. ISBN 978081083663-1.
^ ^a ^b Warner, Jay (2006). American Singing Groups: A History from 1940 to Today. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 266. ISBN 0634099787. Rockin' chairs memories of love billboard.
^ Gribin, Anthony (2000). The Complete Book of Doo-Wop. Krause Publications. p. 441. ISBN 978-0873418294.
^ "Distributor News". Billboard. 26 May 1958. p. 6.
^ "The Billboard's Music Popularity Charts: Pop Records". Billboard. 22 June 1959. p. 77.
^ Anthony Gribin; Matthew Schiff (1 September 2014). The Top 1000 Doo-Wop Songs: Collector's Edition. Lulu.com. pp. 207–. ISBN 978-0-9827376-5-1.