The Velvets were an American doo wop group from Odessa in Ector County in West Texas. The African American quintet was formed in 1959 by Virgil Johnson, a high school English teacher, with four of his students. Roy Orbison heard the group and arranged for them to be signed to Monument Records in 1960. Their first release was the standard "That Lucky Old Sun" but their biggest hit single was "Tonight (Could Be the Night)", which hit #26 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1961. "That Lucky Old Sun" (#46) and "Tonight (Could Be the Night)" (#50) made brief appearances in the UK Singles Chart in 1961. The follow-up to "Tonight", "Laugh", peaked at number 90 and after a half-dozen further singles but no more hits the group disbanded.

Their complete recorded output comprises just thirty songs, which were collected onto one compact disc and released on Ace Records in 1996

1. Tonight: (Could Be The Night) more
2. Time And Again more
3. Spring Fever more
4. That Lucky Old Sun more
5. Laugh more
6. Lana more
7. The Love Express more
8. Don't Let Him Take My Baby more
9. Let The Good Times Roll more
10. The Light Goes On, The Light Goes Off more
11. Crying In The Chapel more
12. Dawn more
13. Here Comes That Song Again more
14. Nightmare more
15. If more
16. Let The Fool Kiss You more
17. Baby The Magic Is Gone more
18. Be Ever Mine more
19. You Done Me Bad more
20. Kiss Me more
21. Alicia more
22. Bird Dog more
23. My Love more
24. Who Has The Right more
25. I'm Trusting In You more
26. Almost But Not Quite more
27. Husbands And Wives more
28. I Can Feel It more
29. Poison Love more
30. That's Out Of My Line more

Group Members were Virgil Johnson, Will Solomon, Mark Prince, Clarence Rigsby (1947 -1978, died in a car accident) and Bob Thursby. Johnson sometimes appears in nostalgia concerts.



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