“Crazy for You” is wonderful! I guess I sort of missed that one.
At that same Radio City show, they had a group called the Penguins that didn’t have even one original member of the group. That kind of makes sense, since they were pretty much a one-hit wonder and the gang probably split up shortly after Earth Angel.
Soon afterwards, Cleveland Duncan, the lead singer, put together a group and continued performing under the name the Penguins. In 1963, they waxed Memories of El Monte, a paean to the American Legion Stadium in El Monte, Calif., the site of dozens of rock and R&B concerts. The song wasn't a chart hit, but it got a lot of airplay on stations like the border blaster XERB, broadcasting out of Rosarito, Lower California, where disc jockey Art Laboe played it on his late-night Oldies show in the late sixties-early seventies.
On New Years Eve, 1983, I saw Duncan with his Penguins group perform at the Olympic Auditorium in LA (now a church). They ushered in 1984 with "Memories of El Monte," which segued into "Earth Angel."
The first release of Earth Angel was from Dootone records. The same company that released the Medallions hits, and also the first songs the Drifters came out with. They also recorded Redd Foxx’s early albums which are still a bit “salty” by today’s standards.