Hey there lonely boy written by earl shuman and leon carr and recorded by ruby and the romantics for kapp records was released in july 1963 reached 27 on.
Ruby the romantics.
Ruby the romantics were an akron ohio based american r b group in the 1960s.
Ruby the romantics demo ruby the romantics uk.
Million selling single our day will come 1963.
This is a generous collection with all of their kapp recordings nicely remastered and with an.
Provided to youtube by universal music group hey there lonely boy ruby and the romantics greatest hits album a geffen records release.
1963 umg recordi.
Ruby the romantics should have been bigger for sure.
Ruby the romantics original version.
My take is that maybe they were a bit too mellow at a time when the more gritty upbeat girl group sound was at its peak in 63 and in 64 the motown juggernaut took over with its sound.
1 and selling over one million copies in the us also topped the billboard r b chart at.
My summer love written by mort garson and bob hilliard who had written ruby the romantics first hit our day will come was released as a single by k.
The song s composers were hoping to place our day will come with an established easy listening act and only agreed to let the new r b group ruby the romantics record the song after kapp records a r director al stanton promised that if the ruby the romantics single failed kapp would record the song with jack jones.