Album Notes
Between 1953 and 1954 THE THIRTEEN has traveled over 30,000 miles and
appeared in over 240 concerts before secondary schools, colleges and
universities, resort hotels, business groups, and numerous radio and
television audiences.
In 1953 THE THIRTEEN became the first Colgate singing group to invade the
West Coast where the boys sang at some of the famous nightclubs and hotels
in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and Palm Springs. At such places as the Mocambo,
the Thunderbird Club, and at the movie studios they met and performed with
some of the best talent the nation has to offer.
In 1954 the group traveled to Nassau in the Bahamas, and became the main
attraction at the British Colonial Hotel. It was this trip which was largely
responsible for the addition of two calypso songs to THE THIRTEEN'S
repertoire-"Hold 'em Joe" and "Man Smart, Woman Smarter," the latter of
which is included in this album.
That same year THE THIRTEEN became the first callege singing group to be
invited to the Apple Blossom festival in Winchester, Virginia. In addition,
extended trips to Chicago, Buffalo, and Rochester where the group
specialized in radio and television performances, gave THE THIRTEEN an ever
widening variety of audiences ranging from Sororities at Northwestern
University to the Pump Room in the Ambassador East Hotel in Chicago.
This album, celebrating the thirteenth anniversary of THE THIRTEEN, shows
that wide traveling is not the only reason for the group's fame. It is,
rather, the distinctive versatility and spontaneity that THE THIRTEEN
captures and transmits to its audiences that enables it to make friends
wherever it goes. |
