Tears On My Pillow / Two People In The World (45 RPM, 7-INCH VINYL 'SINGLE')

The Imperials (NO mention of "Little Anthony")

Published by End Records, 1958

About this Item

Not a book but a 7-inch, 45 rpm vinyl "single," End E-1027, very-good-plus vinyl (could actually be Styrene) with a few smudges, brown rectangular stain to B-side label where someone once presumably placed a piece of tape, said tape now gone. First single at End Records for Clarence Collins' group, previously known as the Chesters, and their first big hit. WABC disc jockey Alan Freed, who knew lead tenor Anthony Gourdine, received the demo -- credited to "The Imperials" -- and introduced it on the air with "And here's a new record that's making a lot of noise, LITTLE ANTHONY and The Imperials singing 'Tears On My Pillow.'" The phone lines lit up, at which point the folks at George Goldner's year-old End Records knew they had a hit -- and a problem. They didn't HAVE any records that said they were by anyone called "Little Anthony." So they made the obvious call to the plant (pardon us if we paraphrase): "You know that new 45 by the Imperials? Well I need like a hundred thousand new labels by tomorrow, only they've got to say they're by LITTLE ANTHONY and the Imperials, see?" Which is why original copies of End Records E-1027 credited simply to "The Imperials" (like this one) are now worth basically twice what the revised (and far more common) "Little Anthony and the Imperials" versions will command. This one now reduced from $14.

Seller Inventory # 011389

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tears On My Pillow / Two People In The World (45 RPM, 7-INCH VINYL 'SINGLE')
• Publisher: End Records
• Publication Date: 1958
• Language: English
• Binding: No Binding
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • 45 rpm "singles" and EPs
  • 1950s