"Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)" is an American pop song, originally released by The Penguins in 1954 on the Dootone label (Dootone 348), as the B-side to "Hey Señorita". For the music genre, see Pop music. ... For other uses, see Song (disambiguation). ... The Penguins were an American Doo-Wop group of the 1950s and 60s, best remembered for their only top 40 hit, Earth Angel, which was one of the first rhythm and blues hits to cross over to the pop charts. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... “B-Sides” redirects here. ...

Both songs were originally recorded, as demo recordings, at Ted Brinson's garage studio in South Los Angeles in October 1954, with producer Dootsie Williams^[1][2]. "Earth Angel" quickly outstripped the A-side in popularity, and reached #1 on the Billboard R&B chart for three weeks in early 1955, and #8 on the pop chart. Covered many times since, the love song would prove to be the only Top 40 hit from the group. For other uses, see demo. ... “B-Sides” redirects here. ... Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, formerly known by various names including Hot Soul Singles, Hot Black Singles, and Hot R&B Singles (before the hip-hop term was added in the late 1990s), is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States. ... “Hot 100” redirects here. ... // In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... Love songs are songs about love, a subset of songs that deal with intimacy. ... Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ... In popular music, a chart-topper is an extremely popular recording, identified by its inclusion in a ranked list—a chart—of top selling or otherwise judged most popular releases. ... A musical ensemble is, by definition, a group of three or more musicians who gather to perform music. ...

"Earth Angel" ranked 151^st on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. The Penguins' rendition is considered by many to be "the grandaddy of rock n' roll"^{[citation needed]} since it was one of the first records which could be described as rock and roll to hit the national pop charts. This article is about the magazine. ... ... Construction of the Thomas Jefferson Building, from July 8, 1888 to May 15, 1894. ... The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings which are culturally, historically or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States. ... There are many candidates for the title of the first rock and roll record. ...

The UK edition of "Earth Angel" (on London Records) sold very few copies, and hence enjoys legendary status among record collectors as an extremely rare and valuable record^{[citation needed]}. London Records is a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom, originally marketing records in the United States, Canada and Latin America from 1947 through the 1980s. ... Record collecting is a pastime for millions of music fans the world over. ...

Authorship

Who wrote the song is up for some debate. It was originally credited to The Penguins' baritone singer Curtis Williams, but, after a legal dispute in 1956, both Jesse Belvin and Gaynel Hodge, at the time a member of another Los Angeles vocal group, The Turks, were added as co-writers. For other uses, see Song (disambiguation). ... The Penguins were an American Doo-Wop group of the 1950s and 60s, best remembered for their only top 40 hit, Earth Angel, which was one of the first rhythm and blues hits to cross over to the pop charts. ... ű For other uses, see Baritone (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Singer (disambiguation). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

One source^[3] states that ""Earth Angel" was a pastiche of everything that was floating around Los Angeles". According to one of the most reputable sources^[4], it was started by Belvin, and then evolved through various differently titled songs recorded by Hodge and Williams. In turn they were influenced by "Dream Girl", Belvin's #2 R&B hit as one half of Jesse and Marvin, which contained many of the same vocal inflections used in "Earth Angel". The "Will you be mine?" hook was borrowed from the #9 R&B hit of the same name by the Swallows^[5]. A very similar song, in terms of its piano introduction and chord progression, is "I Know" recorded in 1953 by The Hollywood Flames, a group in which Hodge and Williams were both members for a time. The chord changes are also similar to the Rodgers and Hart song, "Blue Moon", which was popular with many doo-wop groups. The coda of Earth Angel, with the repeatedly harmonized word "You-oo... you-oo... you-oo... you-oo," had previously been heard in The Dominoes' #5 R&B cover of "These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)"^[6]. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... The Hollywood Flames were an American R&B vocal group in the 1950s, best known for their hit Buzz Buzz Buzz. They formed as The Flames in 1949, in Watts, Los Angeles, at a talent show where members of various high school groups got together. ... Rodgers and Hart was the songwriting team consisting of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. ... Cover of sheet music for Blue Moon arranged by Jeff Funk, scored by SATB choir, and published by Alfred Publishing Co. ... Compilation album cover Billy Ward and the Dominoes were one of the top American R&B groups of the 1950s, and launched the careers of both Clyde McPhatter and Jackie Wilson. ... These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) is a popular song with words and music by Harry Link, Holt Marvell, and Jack Strachey. ...

Cover versions

• The song became a major hit for The Crew-Cuts in 1955. Number 70529 on the Mercury Records catalog, it reached the Billboard charts on January 29, 1955. It peaked at #3 on the Disk Jockey chart, #8 on the Best Seller and #8 on the Juke Box chart. The flip side, "Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)," also charted.
• At the same time, Gloria Mann's version reaching #18.
• Johnny Tillotson's 1960 version reached #57.
• The Vogues recorded a version that reached #42 in 1969.
• New Edition reached #21 with a 1986 version.
• Bella Morte released a cover of Earth Angel on their newest album Bleed The Grey Sky Black (released October 10, 2006 under Metropolis Records), as well as a video for the song featuring dancing zombies.
• Death Cab for Cutie recorded a version for Stubbs the Zombie: The Soundtrack.
• Tiny Tim also covered this song implementing his famed falsetto toward the end.

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Cultural references

• In Back to the Future, Marvin Berry and the Starlighters played the song during the "Enchantment Under the Sea" high-school dance. Due to the time-travelling plot of the films, this scene was "replayed" in Back to the Future Part II. A scene from the Family Guy season finale "Meet the Quagmires", which directly parodied the dance from Back to the Future, also featured the song.
• In the musical, "Jersey Boys", it was sung by the character playing Tommy DeVito.
• In Superman III, the song was played in the high-school reunion that Clark Kent and Lana Lang dance to.
• In the mini-series The Temptations, the fictional Distants sang this song.
• Sung by the teachers at Swavesey Village Collage's Variety Show.

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