From 1962, this is an ORIGINAL 7 45 record by KENNY and the Cadets on Randy Records catalog 422.
BARBIE / What Is A Young Girl Made Of
Matrix s MAE 422 A MAE 422 B are handwritten in the dead wax after each track as seen in the pictures.
This is a beautiful copy which i picked up in a large Beatles collection. This is the only copy that has ever come thru my hands in over 45 years buying and selling records It sounds great I will upload a clip of each side to you tube as soon as my iphone loads the video to my laptop. Search on youtube for Kenny the Cadets soundclip and it should show up by saturday 12/11/20 - or look at Secret Sounds Athens facebook page where they are already up It is an iphone capture so you may want to use your headphones...
here is some back story on this gem
Kenny the Cadets were a strongly Beach Boys-related act, but not exactly the Beach Boys under a pseudonym -- a situation that has created some confusion for discographers over the years. In early 1962, during the Beach Boys brief stay at Candix Records, producer Bruce Morgan had some of the members add vocals to a couple of instrumental tracks that he had recorded with other musicians. On Barbie, Brian Wilson sang lead and Carl Wilson, Al Jardine, and the Wilsons mother, Audree Wilson, contributed to backup vocals, with Val Poliuto also adding bass backup vocals. Mike Love and Dennis Wilson did not participate in this session. On What Is a Young Girl Made Of?, Brian Wilson again took the lead vocal, though none of the other Beach Boys participated.
The two tracks, Barbie and What Is a Young Girl Made Of?, were both Bruce Morgan compositions and were issued as a single in early 1962 under the name of Kenny the Cadets. Barbie was a typical early- 60s doo wop-influenced tune with a very high Brian Wilson lead vocal, while the more up-tempo What Is a Girl Made Of? was ordinary early- 60s teen pop. The single made no impact and in a few, the Beach Boys proper were recording for Capitol Records, making the Top Twenty for the first time in late 1962. The Kenny the Cadets songs, however, have appeared on several compilations of their pre-Capitol Candix sessions.
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