Who were the Ecuadors?

Thursday, January 3. 2008

After publication of Fred Rothwell's Long Distance Information book some questions remained unanswered. One of these questions is:
Who were the Ecuadors who backed Chuck Berry in July 1959?
The only thing I noticed is that there were at least two more songs published by this group. Cham Records 181177 (Rockin' Rollin' Vocal Groups) contains "Say You'll Be Mine" by The Ecuadors, Cham Records 80423 (Rockin' Rollin' Vocal Groups Again) contains "Let Me Sleep Woman" by The Ecuadors, and Cham Records 80505 (Rockin' Rollin' Vocal Groups Vol. 4) contains "Sputnik Dance (A. Turner)" and "Stay A Little Closer (McCoy-Kirkland)" by The Equadors. Note the different spelling, though. It may be two different groups. On Cham Records 80505 (Rockin' Rollin' Vocal Groups Vol. 4) the composer for "Sputnik Dance" is listed as (A. Turner) and the composers of "Stay A Little Closer" are listed as (McCoy-Kirkland). Maybe these names point to group members?

Posted by Dietmar Rudolph in LDI Sessionography - Q&A at 16:09 | Comments (3) | Add Comment

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McCoy-Kirkland are noted New York songwriter Rose Marie McCoy and bass player/bandleader Leroy Kirkland. Ms. McCoy still resides in the New York area. Kirkland is deceased.

#1 Todd Baptista on 2008-01-03 16:19 (Reply)

The answer to you question can be found at this link: http://home.att.net/~marvart/Equadors/equadors.html

#2 Matthew Anton on 2008-01-03 16:31 (Reply)

Thanks for the link, Matthew, but Marv Goldberg's article is about the Equadors, which is a different group. Stuart Coleman (liner notes to Great R&B Duets, ACE Records) finally found out, that the Ecuadors we are talking about were a pseudonym for Etta James, Harvey Fuqua, and Billy Davis. Harvey and Etta recorded some duets for Chess afterwards.

#2.1 Dietmar Rudolph on 2008-01-03 16:34 (Reply)

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