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On the fashion front, their brief flirtation with knee-length jackets, high collars and wide, flat hats was soon discarded in favour of more sensible clothes. It was on the latter show that the two singers purveyed their new if short‑lived, dance creation “The Righteous”. Spotted in a Sunset Strip nightclub by ABC‑TV producer Jack Good, the duo was signed to appear on television on a semi‑regular basis on The Steve Allen Show and Shindig. Their follow-up, ‘My Babe’, was less successful, only making No.75 in the US later in the year.

The song went down so well on their live shows that it was released as a single, becoming the first of nearly two dozen American hit singles when it got to No.49 in the spring of 1963.

Their first single under the new name, still on Moonglow, was Medley’s ‘Little Latin Lupe Lu’. Their name came about after the audience at the Black Derby, a club in Santa Ana, California, paid tribute to the two white singers ‘black vocal sound’ by chanting after the performance ‘that’s righteous, brother’. In an effort to change their fortunes they decided to call themselves The Righteous Brothers in 1963. A label change to Moonglow for ‘That’s All I Want Tonight’ in 1962 was equally unsuccessful. Their first single, ‘That’s The Way We Love’, was in 1961 on the Smash label it was not a hit nor was the follow-up, ‘Cutie Cutie’. Their debut, as The Paramours, was at a high school prom at The Charter House in Anaheim, followed by an extended booking at The Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California. The cream of their 1960’s recordings can be found on The Very Best Of The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody.īobby Hatfield, from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin and Bill Medley, from Los Angeles, got together in 1960 after leading their own local bands for several years in Southern California’s Orange County. This song has been such a towering success that it almost inevitably over-shadows their other records great as it is, as fresh today with its amazing Phil Spector production as it was when it was recorded in 1964, the duo released a string of fantastic records, with their trademark vocals and clever choice of material. They had seven hit records in the 1960s, although they also managed to have a hit twice during the decade with their perennial, ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling’. Somehow we imagine that The Righteous Brothers had many more hits on the U.K.

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