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THE VOXPOPPERS

“WISHING FOR YOUR LOVE“

(Sampson Horton)

Mercury 71282

No. 18    May 5. 1958

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Officials–when there were such–at the Mercury label have confessed a complete ignorance of this

one-charting act.  But because the Voxpoppers’ one-off EP had a picture sleeve, we can surmise

that they were self-contained–playing guitar, bass, sax, accordion, and drums–and that they were

five in number.  The group from New York City cut guitar and sax-dominated instrumentals like

“Guitar Stroll” and “Stroll Roll.” and sang group-harmony roekaballads like “Wishing for Your Love.”

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Presumably, the Voxpoppers vinyl voyage began with a little-noted number called “A Love to Last

a Lifetime.”  The tiny Poplar label issued the disk, backed with “Come Back Little Girl,” just months

before the group signed with Bill Lashley’s Amp·3.  “Wishing for Your Love” was their initial offering

for the label.  The response immediately moved Mercury to offer national distribution for tho disk.

Yet despite the group’s striking success with “Wishing,” only one further 45 (“Ping Pong Baby”) and

that rare EP appeared.  A few yeara later, the Voxpoppers did manage to convince Morty Craft at

Warwick Records to release two now hard to find smoothies, “Helen Isn’t ‘telling'”and “In the Heart

of Hearts.”