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TEEN- QUEENS

“EDDIE MY LOVE”

(Aaron Collins, Maxwell Davis, Sam Ling)

RPM 453

No. 14     March 31, 1956

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Aaron Collins and Maxwell Davis were sure they had a hit on their hands.  Collins was a member of THE

CADETS/Jacks (Modern/RPM/ Flair Records’ house group) and Davis was the label’s arranger.  Along with

Willie Davis, Will “Dub” Jones, Lloyd McCraw, and Austin “Ted” Taylor, Collins and Davis–as the Jacks­ had

an R & B hit in 1955 with a cover of the Feather’s “Why Don’t You Write Me?” (#3).  In just a few months, the

very same group, recording as THE CADETS, would chart with their cover of THE ]AYHAWKS’ “Stranded in

the Jungle” (#15).  Now, however, Collins and Davis had an original, a catchy rock-a-ballad called “Eddie

My Love,” that they brought to Modern/RPM/Flair’s Sam Bihari.  Auditioning the tune were Aaron’s sisters,

Betty and Rose.  Sam heard the number and rushed the girls into the Modern Studios in Culver City.

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Despite the competition from “whitened”cover ver­sions by both the Chordettes and the Fontane Sisters,

Betty and Rose went Top 40 with “Eddie My Love.”  Their follow-ups were arguably as high quality as

“Eddie;” their jump tunes, like “Rock Everybody,” were especially pleasing.  Nothing, however, charted,

and not even a move to a major like RCA Victor helped gain the girls the further notice.

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The duo broke up in 1961.