THE FIVE DEBONAIRES - by Al Kelly

I'll bet after listening to "Darlin'" and seeing it was on the NYC
based Herald label, you'd say the group was from NYC, well you'd be
wrong!!! They were from Atlanta, GA. The group led by Arthur Simon and
this is the only record they ever released. Many confuse this group with
the Gee Record group, which came around the same time period but that
group was led by Robert Adino and most of the Long Island bred group
were Italians while the  Simon group were black. Milt Lowery, who
produced and wrote the music for this record had a past dealing with Al
Silver, owner of Herald and sold him this master.  For some reason,
Silver re-released this record in November of '57 as the Debonaires
which added to the confusion.