THE CHARGERS - By Al Kelly

n March '58, singer Jesse Belvin signed his first contract with a 
major record company, RCA-Victor.  In practising for his first session, 
he practiced with two of his neighbors (Dunbar John White and his 
brother Johnny "Junior" White) plus they added Benny Easley , James 
Norman Scott (Jimmy Norman, had a couple hits) and Mitchell Alexander. 
The group was set to back up Jesse but talked RCA into recording the 
group. In their first session and under the direction of Shorty Rogers 
and producer Dick Pierce cut several songs and the group had their 
first release in July of '58.  The group was invited back for a second 
session in Oct.'58 which Jesse forgot about the session since he 
usually did the fifth member part. None of the three sides were ever 
released, again a month later they went back in the studio and 
recorded four more sides and this is one of the sides. They did back 
Jesse on his RCA releases but the group was dropped by RCA and Jimmy 
Norman joined the Dyna-Sores, who did "Alley Oop" as a cover and 
later had a hit on the Little Star label in '62.