(Early R&B / Doo Wop) The Velvets-The Complete Velvets - 1996, MP3 (tracks), 128 kbps

01 - Tonight
02 - Time And Again
03 - Spring Fever
04 - That Lucky Old Sun
05 - Laugh
06 - Lana
07 - The Love Express
08 - Dont Let Him Take My Baby
09 - Let The Good Times Roll
10 - The Light Goes On, The Light Goes Off
11 - Crying In The Chapel
12 - Dawn
13 - Here Comes That Song Again
14 - Nightmare
15 - If
16 - Let The Fool Kiss You
17 - Baby The Magic Is Done
18 - Be Ever Mine
19 - You Done Me Bad
20 - Kiss Me
21 - Alicia
22 - Bird Dog
23 - My Love
24 - Who Has The Right
25 - Im Trusting In You
26 - Almost But Not Quite
27 - Husbands And Wives
28 - I Can Feel Right
29 - Poison Love
30 - Thats Out Of My Line

The Odessa, TX-based Velvets are best remembered for their violin-enriched 1961 Top 40 hit "Tonight (Could Be the Night)," during which the group chanted "doo-wop" behind lead singer Virgil Johnson. It was one of the first uses of the phrase in a song (the Turbans' use of the phrase on the 1955 "When You Dance" predates it by a few years). Johnson was a high school English teacher who recruited four of his students -- Clarence Rigsby (lead tenor), Robert Thursby (tenor), William Solomon (baritone), and Mark Prince (bass) -- to form the Velvets in 1960. They were soon spotted by Roy Orbison, who helped get them signed to the Nashville-based Monument label (he later cut "Lana" a song of theirs, while at the label).
The Velvets' recording career started with a catchy revival of "That Lucky Old Sun," but despite the presence of Nashville's finest session players on their releases, only the up-tempo "Tonight (Could Be the Night)," which was penned by Johnson, would score a U.S. Top 40 hit (number 26 pop, May 1961). This song tells of a guy trying to get his nerve up to ask his girl to marry him. Their next release, the spirited Roy Orbison/Joe Melson-penned "Laugh," became their last chart entry. The group released another six singles before going back to teaching and studying.