Pretty Girls Everywhere - Eugene Church (Class Records) 1958, 78 rpm! A Direct Recording!
One of my favorite 50's recordings and definitely one you don't see every day on 78 rpm!
Eugene Church was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Church collaborated with Jesse Belvin in the mid-50s as The Cliques, releasing singles on Modern Records. Late in the 1950s he released four singles of his own, as Eugene Church & the Fellows. The first two were U.S. hits: \"Pretty Girls Everywhere\" went #6 R&B, #36 Pop, and \"Miami\" hit #14 R&B and #67 Pop. They were followed by \"Good News\" and \"Mind Your Own Business\", neither of which charted. Church later pursued a career in gospel music in Dallas, Texas, and returned to secular music in the 1990s in doo-wop revues.
He died in Los Angeles, California, in April 1993, from cancer at the age of 55.
