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Sheriff & The Ravels

Sheriff & The Ravels has been played on NTS shows including Diddy Wah, with Shombalor first played on 30 November 2015.

Sheriff and The Ravels

Apparently, The Ravels were a Brooklyn streetcorner group, just another of many hundreds of similar singing lads, looking for a shot at the big time (or at least a spin on Dr. Jive's show on WWRL). One of their acquaintances, a man named Elmore Sheriff, had a song he had written back in 1955 that he called "Shombalor". Sheriff knew a guy named Aki Aleong, who was working as an actor and was heavy into the doo-wop scene (his 45…

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Shombalor
Sheriff & The Ravels
Vee Jay Records1959
Shombalor
Sheriff & The RavelsVee Jay Records1959
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