BIOGRAPHY AND DISCOGRAPHY

 

Pop-based 1940’s vocal group from Newark, New Jersey who despite being signed to major label Decca in mid-decade on the strength of their club act failed to deliver anything deemed releasable by the company and were promptly let go.

The group bounced around various smaller labels, their style heavily indebted to The Ink Spots getting them no further along the road to stardom than from where they started, so they took an ill-conceived stab at the burgeoning rock market as a last gasp effort in early 1948 without commercial or artistic success and quickly vanished from the scene, breaking up by 1949.
 
 
THE VELVETONES DISCOGRAPHY (Reviews To Date On Spontaneous Lunacy):
 
 
ROBERTA, GET OUT OF THAT BED
(Super Disc 1055; April, 1948)
A misguided attempt at black humor which while fairly catchy, albeit very lightweight, is killed by the fact the “humor” is decidedly lacking and in such poor taste that not even decent harmonizing can save this from being locked up as an affront to humanity and rock ‘n’ roll. (1)