The Hi-Lo's - Now (1981/2015) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

One of the most innovative jazz/pop vocal groups of all time, the pioneering Hi-Lo's influenced countless pop, R&B, and doo wop groups from the '50s right up to the present. This 1980 recording includes pop hits of the era (Just The Way You Are, After the Love Is Gone) and standards arranged to highlight the precise harmonies of the four members. The album was one of a pair the ensemble recorded after a 14 year hiatus; the response from the public encouraged the quartet to work together more regularly throughout the rest of the 1980s.

They formed in December 1953 when Gene Puerling of Milwaukee and friend Bob Strasen met Clark Burroughs and Bob Morse. The latter two were vocalists with the Encores, the vocal group for the Billy May Band. When Billy's band stopped traveling, the Hi-Lo's were born. Reportedly named because of their extreme vocal and physical ranges (Strasen and Morse were tall, Gene and Clark were short), the Hi-Lo's practiced at Clark and Gene's Los Angeles apartment, refining their revolutionary voicings. The group were themselves influenced by such artists as The Four Freshmen, The Modernaires, and Mel Torme's Mel-Tones.

Tracklist:

01 - While We're Young
02 - Just The Way You Are
03 - Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
04 - Ain't Doin' Bad Doin' Nothin'
05 - Lazy Afternoon
06 - Chega De Saudade (No More Blues)
07 - After the Love Has Gone
08 - Everytime We Say Goodbye
09 - The Night We Called It a Day
10 - Mr. Blue

Produced by Gene Puerling & Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer.
Instrumentals track recorded on March 27-28, 1980 at A&M Studios, Los Angeles.
Vocals recorded on May 19-22, 1980 in the studio of MPS Records, Villingen, West Germany.
Digitally Remastered.



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