78 RPM - The Browns - The Three Bells (Les Trois Cloches) / Heaven Fell Last Night - RCA - UK

78 RPM Record

Artist:	The Browns
Label:	RCA
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	RCA.1140
Date:	Aug 1959
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own
Price Guide:	$63
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PRICE GUIDE

$63

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	The Browns	The Three Bells (Les Trois Cloches)	Gilles Reisfeld	Rate
B	The Browns	Heaven Fell Last Night	John D Loudermilk	Rate

Notes

From Apple Music:- During the '50s and '60s, the vocal harmonies of the Browns gave the lie to those who would stereotype country music as a raw product distinguished more by pure feeling than by art; perhaps the single word that best describes their music is "polished." The original brother-sister duo of Jim Ed Brown and Maxine Brown were joined by younger sister Bonnie in 1955, creating a trademark smooth trio sound that proved wonderfully adaptable to down-home harmony singing, to folk-pop arrangements that rode the crest of the hootenanny craze, and to lush Nashville sound extravaganzas.

By the late '50s, the Browns, teamed with RCA's visionary producer Chet Atkins, had become one of the country acts that were most successful in exploiting the new national enthusiasm for folk music. On album covers they were pictured with a clean-cut, almost collegiate look that diverged sharply from country norms. The Nashville songwriters responsible for creating the sentimental, romantic world of Eddy Arnold's music contributed idealized visions of small-town life such as "The Old Village Choir" to the Browns' repertoire, but a song whose origin was not even American gave the trio its biggest hit. "The Three Bells," a translation of a hit song by hard-bitten French chanteuse Edith Piaf, not only spent ten weeks on top of the country charts in 1959, but also crossed over and spent four weeks at number one on the pop charts. As a result, the Browns appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Jimmy Dean Show, and American Bandstand.

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