New York based Red Bird, and its sister label, Blue Cat, existed for a very short time, from 1964-67,
but during that time gave us some of the most memorable hits of the '60s. Although they apparently
recorded in stereo, they only released the Dixie Cups LPs in that format. The Shangri-Las songs were
also recorded in stereo, and have appeared later on several other non-Red Bird LPs (see "Related
Discography" below). Recent CDs such as the Taragon CD below have finally allowed us to hear the
Red
Bird songs in excellent sounding true stereo.
The Red Bird label was yellow with black print, with the red and black logo on top. Around the bottom of
the label it read, "STUYVESANT PRODUCTIONS, INC." The stereo label was the same, with "STEREO"
on the left of the label in small block letters.The UK version was white with red
print.
We would appreciate any additions or corrections to this discography. Just send them to us via e-mail. Both Sides Now
Publications is an information web page, and we have no association with Red Bird
Records, which is not currently active. Should you be interested in acquiring albums listed
in this discography (which are all out of print), we suggest you see our "Frequently Asked Questions" page and follow the
instructions found there. This story and discography are copyright 1997, 2003 by Mike Callahan.
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Number - Title - Artist - [Release Date] (Chart) Contents
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RB 20-100/RBS 20-100 - Chapel of Love - Dixie Cups [1964] (8-64, #112) Chapel Of
Love (S)/Gee The Moon Is Shining Bright (S)/I'm Gonna Get You Yet (S)/Ain't That Nice (S)/Thank You
Mama Thank You Papa (S)/Another Boy Like Mine (S)//Gee Baby Gee (S)/Iko Iko (S)/Girls Can Tell
(S)/All
Grown Up (S)/People Say (M, except for a momentary separation during the bells in the bridge)
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RB 20-101 - Leader of the Pack - Shangri-Las [1965] (3-65, #109) Issued in mono only.
Side 2 is "live," sort of. Give Him A Great Big Kiss/Leader Of The Pack/Bull Dog/It's Easier To Cry/What
Is Love/Remember (Walking In The Sand)//Twist And Shout/Maybe/So Much In Love/Shout/Good Night
My Love (Pleasant Dreams)/You Can't Sit Down
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RB 20-102 - Red Bird Goldies - Various Artists [1965] Issued in mono only. Chapel Of
Love - Dixie Cups/Remember (Walking In The Sand) - Shangri-Las/New York's A Lonely Town - Trade
Winds/I Wanna Love Him So Bad - Jelly Beans/Good Night Baby - Butterflys/Give Him A Great Big Kiss
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Shangri-Las//Leader Of The Pack - Shangri-Las/The Boy From New York City - Ad Libs/Something You
Got - Alvin Robinson/I Wonder - Butterflys/Baby Be Mine - Jelly Beans/People Say - Dixie Cups
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RB 20-103 - Iko Iko - Dixie Cups [1965] Essentially a reissue of the
Chapel of Love LP [20-100] with a different cover. Issued in mono only.
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RB 20-104 - Shangri-Las-65! - Shangri-Las [1965] Issued in mono only. Red sticker on
front of LP advertises "Right Now and Not Later." Right Now And Not Later/Never Again/Give Us Your
Blessings/Sophisticated Boom Boom/I'm Blue/Heaven Only Knows//The Train From Kansas City/Out In
The Streets/What's A Girl To Do/The Dum Dum Ditty/You Cheated You Lied/The Boy
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RB 20-104 - Shangri-Las-65! - Shangri-Las [1965] Issued in mono only. Transition
album,
has the track sequence of the I Can Never Go Home Anymore album below, with a white sticker
on
the front advertising "I Can Never Go Home Anymore." Right Now And Not Later/Never Again/Give Us
Your Blessings/Sophisticated Boom Boom/I'm Blue/Heaven Only Knows//I Can Never Go Home
Anymore/The Train From Kansas City/Out In The Streets/What's A Girl To Do/You Cheated You
Lied/The
Boy
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RB 20-104 - I Can Never Go Home Anymore - Shangri-Las [1965] Issued in mono only.
A
reissue of Shangri-Las-65! with a different cover and with the title track replacing "The Dum Dum
Ditty" after the former song became a hit. This track lineup was also issued with the Shangri-Las
'65! cover and a sticker advertising "I Can Never Go Home Anymore." Issued in mono only. Right
Now
And Not Later/Never Again/Give Us Your Blessings/Sophisticated Boom Boom/I'm Blue/Heaven Only
Knows//I Can Never Go Home Anymore/The Train From Kansas City/Out In The Streets/What's A Girl
To
Do/You Cheated You Lied/The Boy
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RB-20-105 - The Wit and Wisdom of Adlai Stevenson - Adlai Stevenson [1965] Issued in
mono only. The Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Award Dinner/1960 Democratic Convention In Los
Angeles/First Speech On The Cuban Crisis/Second Speech On The Cuban Crisis/Tribute To Eleanor
Roosevelt/Tribute To President John Kennedy/Ambassador Stevenson's Last Speech At The United
Nations/Memorial to Ambassador Stevenson - Secretary General U Thant
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RB-20-106 - Steve Rossi - Steve Rossi [1965] Try To Remember/How Insensitive/My
Heart Reminds Me/(others, probably including How Deep Is The Ocean/Nobody But You/Where's The
Girl/I'll Set My Love To Music/My Claire De Lune)
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RELATED ALBUMS:
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Mercury SR-61099 - Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las - Shangri-Las [1966] Many of the
LPs
marked "mono" actually play in stereo, since this was the time that Mercury was going to mono/stereo
albums. The wax in the runout grooves should say "2/61099" for these LPs instead of "MG-21099."
Leader
Of The Pack (S, missing first line of second verse, "One day my dad said find someone new." This line is
missing from all stereo versions of this song released prior to the The Very Best of Red Bird/Blue Cat
Records CD on Taragon, where it was the original 45 version in stereo.)/Past Present And Future
(E)/Train From
Kansas City (S)/Heaven Only Knows (S)/Remember (Walking In The Sand) (E)/Out In The Streets (S)//I
Can Never Go Home Anymore (E)/Give Him A Great Big Kiss (E)/Long Live Our Love (S, narrow
separation)/Give Us Your Blessings (S)/Sophisticated Boom Boom (E)/What Is Love (E)
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Post 4000 - The Shangri-Las Sing - Shangri-Las [1975] Remember (Walking In The
Sand) (E)/Leader Of The Pack (E)/Right Now And Not Later (E)/Long Live Our Love (E)/Out In The
Streets (E)/Past Present And Future (E)/He Cried (E)/Give Him A Great Big Kiss (E)//I Can Never Go
Home Anymore (E)/Twist And Shout (E)/Maybe (E)/So Much In Love (E)/Shout (E)/Good Night My Love
Pleasant Dreams (E)/You Can't Sit Down (E)/Give Us Your Blessings (E)
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Mercury/PolyGram 824 807-1 - Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las - Shangri-Las [1985] The
1985 Mercury/PolyGram reissue has several differences from the 1966 original. First, the mono version
of
"Leader Of The Pack," with the line in the second verse intact, has been substituted for the earlier stereo
version. The rechanneling is also gone, as non-stereo cuts are now mono. Leader Of The Pack (M)/Past
Present And Future (M)/Train From Kansas City (S)/Heaven Only Knows (S)/Remember (Walking In The
Sand) (M)/Out In The Streets (S)//I Can Never Go Home Anymore (M)/Give Him A Great Big Kiss
(M)/Long Live Our Love (S, narrow separation)/Give Us Your Blessings (S)/Sophisticated Boom Boom
(M)/What Is Love (M)
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Buddah BDS-5014 - Incense and Oldies - Various Artists [1969] This is a strange album
which features a spaced-out announcer between cuts introducing each song, more or less. The
interesting
thing here is that several of the Red Bird/Blue Cat songs appear in stereo, and some are alternate takes!
Leader Of The Pack - Shangri-Las (S, missing the line)/Hello Hello - Sopwith Camel (S)/People Say -
Dixie Cups (S, but only because an electric piano has been added to the mono song)/I Wanna Love Him
So Bad - Jelly Beans (S)/The Boy From New York City - Ad Libs (S)/Give Him A Great Big Kiss -
Shangri-Las (S, but without the overdubs and edit at beginning of song, and without voice overdub at
end)//Chapel Of Love - Dixie Cups (starts S, but changes to E after first verse)/Mirage - Tommy James &
Shondells (S)/Mind Excursion - Trade Winds (S)/Remember (Walking In The Sand) (S, alternate take,
without beach sounds overdubs)/New York's A Lonely Town - Trade Winds (E)/I Think We're Alone Now
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Tommy James & Shondells (E)
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SELECTED RELATED COMPACT DISCS:
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Charly (UK) CD 296-4 - The Red Bird Story - Various Artists [1991] (4-CD set) All tracks
mono except "Bad As They Come," which is rechanneled. Disc 1: Bossa Nova Baby - Tippie &
Clovers/My Heart Said (The Bossa Nova) - Tippie & Clovers/Big Bad World - Cathy Saint/Mr. Heartbreak
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Cathy Saint/Everybody Come Clap Your Hands - Moody & Deltas/He Ain't No Angel - Leola & Lovejoys/I
Won't Be Me Any More - Vic Donna/Go Now - Bessie Banks/It Sounds Like My Baby - Bessie Banks/The
Boy From New York City - Ad Libs/Searchin' - Alvin Robinson/Somethin' You Got - Alvin
Robinson/Chapel
Of Love - Dixie Cups/I Want To Love Him So Bad - Jelly Beans/I Know He Loves Me - Chi Chi
McCauley/Top Down Time - Rock Aways/Keep It Up - Soul Brothers/I Got A Dream - Soul
Brothers/People Say - Dixie Cups/How Can I Get Over You - Alvin Robinson/I'm Gonna Put Some Hurt
On You - Alvin Robinson/Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) - Shangri-Las/Goodnight Baby -
Butterflies/Down Home Girl - Alvin Robinson/Let The Good Times Roll - Alvin Robinson; Disc 2:
Bottom Of My Soul - Alvin Robinson/Fever - Alvin Robinson/Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget - Jelly
Beans/Baby Be Mine - Jelly Beans/Ask Anybody - Ad Libs/He Ain't No Angel - Ad Libs/Welcome To My
Heart - Bouquets/Having A Party - Ronnie Mitchell/Bad As They Come - Sam Hawkins (E)/Hold On Baby
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Sam Hawkins/The Dum Dum Ditty - Goodies/Sophisticated Boom Boom - Goodies/Standing By - Dee
Dee
Warwick (surface noise)/Don't Think My Baby's Coming Back - Dee Dee Warwick/Leader Of The Pack -
Shangri-Las/What Is Love - Shangri-Las/Take Me For A Little While - Evie Sands/Run Home To Your
Mama - Evie Sands/I Know It's Alright - Sam Hawkins/Amy - Barry Mann/Gee Baby Gee - Butterflies/I
Wonder - Butterflies/Little Bell - Dixie Cups/Another Boy Like Mine - Dixie Cups/Give Him A Great Big
Kiss
- Shangri-Las; Disc 3: Twist And Shout - Shangri-Las (live)/Maybe - Shangri-Las (live)/Shout -
Shangri-Las (live)/I Can't Let Go - Evie Sands/New York Is A Lonely Town - Tradewinds/I'm Just A Down
Home Girl - Ad Libs/Iko Iko - Dixie Cups (terrible, bottom-of-a-well sound)/Gee Baby Gee - Dixie Cups/I
Hurt On The Other Side - Sidney Barnes/I'm Gonna Get You Yet - Dixie Cups/Out In The Streets -
Shangri-Las/Our Love Can Still Be Saved - Jeff Barry/I'll Still Love You - Jeff Barry/Give Us Your
Blessings
- Shangri-Las/Heaven Only Knows - Shangri-Las/Gee The Moon Is Shining Bright - Dixie Cups/You
Don't
Know - Ellie Greenwich/Baby - Ellie Greenwich/Right Now And Not Later - Shangri-Las/The Train From
Kansas City - Shangri-Las/If There's Anything Else You Want (Let Me Know) - Roddie Joy/Fugitive From
Love - Linda Jones/You Hit Me Like TNT - Linda Jones/I'm So Glad - Sidney Barnes/I Hear You Say (I
Love You Baby) - Andy Kim; Disc 4: Hey Little Girl - Jimmie Cross/I Can Never Go Home
Anymore - Shangri-Las/Sophisticated Boom Boom - Shangri-Las/Long Live Our Love - Shangri-Las/He
Cried - Shangri-Las/Dressed In Black - Shangri-Las/It Will Only Make Me Love You More - Ral
Donner/He
Will Break Your Heart - Kane & Abel/Past Present And Future - Shangri-Las/Paradise -
Shangri-Las/Love
You More Than Yesterday - Shangri-Las/Recollections - Mary Weiss/Let The Music Play - Didi Noel/It
Was A Lie - Bobby Moore & Fourmosts/Dressed In Black - Shadow Morton; Jelly Beans In
Session (all have studio talk): Chapel Of Love - Jelly Beans/Here She Comes - Jelly Beans/Ain't
Love
A Funny Thing - Jelly Beans/Whisper Sweet Things - Jelly Beans/Goodnight Baby - Jelly Beans/Do Wah
Diddy - Jelly Beans
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Marginal (Belgium) 077 - Iko Iko - Dixie Cups [1992] Gee The Moon Is Shining
Bright/Girls
Can Tell/Chapel Of Love/Gee Baby Gee/Iko Iko/All Grown Up/Another Boy Like Mine/Little Bell/People
Say/Ain't That Nice/Wrong Direction/Thank You Mama, Thank You Papa/You Should Have Seen The
Way He Looked At Me/True True Love (No True Love)/I'm Gonna Get You Yet/What Goes Up, Must
Come Down/Two-Way-Pac-Away/That's Where It's At/Sugar That I Need/I'm Not The Kind Of Girl (To
Marry)/I've Got To Get That Boy/Danny Boy/Chances Are/Here It Comes Again/I'll Never Let The Well
Run Dry/Promises Promises
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RPM (UK) 136 - Myrmidons of Melodrama - Shangri-Las [1994] Remember (Walking in
the Sand)/It's Easier to Cry/Leader of the Pack/What Is Love/Give Him a Great Big Kiss/Maybe/ Out in
the
Streets/The Boy/Give Us Your Blessings/Heaven Only Knows/Right Now and Not Later/Train from
Kansas
City/Never Again/I'm Blue/What's a Girl Supposed to Do?/The Dum Dum Ditty/You Cheated, You Lied/I
Can Never Go Home Anymore/Bull Dog/Long Live Our Love/Sophisticated Boom Boom/He
Cried/Dressed
in Black/Past, Present, and Future/Paradise/Love You More Than Yesterday/Wishing Well/Hate to Say I
Told You So/Give Him a Great Big Kiss (alternate take)/How Pretty Can You Get?/Revlon
Endorsement/Good Taste Tip from Mary Weiss/Dating Courtesy Tip from Mary Weiss
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Mercury 314 532 371-2 - The Best of the Shangri-Las - Shangri-Las [1996] On the good
side, this has 25 tracks, and they're from tape (of some sort). On the bad side, everything except
"Heaven
Only Knows" and "The Train From Kansas City" are mono, the mono has a sound like mono-ed
rechanneling, the sound quality is okay but not much more, and it has a premium price. All in all, a weak
effort from the company that should have the stereo masters. Remember (Walkin' In The Sand)
(M)/Leader Of The Pack (M)/What Is Love (M)/Give Him A Great Big Kiss (M)/Maybe (M)/Out In The
Streets (M)/Give Us Your Blessings (M)/Heaven Only Knows (S)/ Never Again (M)/What's A Girl
Supposed To Do (M)/The Dum Dum Ditty (M)/Right Now And Not Later (M)/The Train From Kansas City
(S)/I Can Never Go Home Anymore (M)/Long Live Our Love (M)/Sophisticated Boom Boom (M)/He
Cried
(M)/ Dressed In Black (M)/Past Present And Future (M)/ Paradise (M)/Love You More Than Yesterday
(M)/ The Sweet Sounds Of Summer (M)/I'll Never Learn (M)/Take The Time (M)/Footsteps On The Roof
(M)
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Rebound 452 050-2 - Leader of the Pack - Shangri-Las [1998] Leader of the
Pack/Heaven
Only Knows/What's a Girl Supposed to Do?/He Cried/The Sweet Sounds of Summer/Give Him a Great
Big Kiss/Bull Dog/Footsteps on the Roof/Love You More Than Yesterday/Out in the Streets/I'll Never
Learn
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Taragon TARCD-1029 - The Very Best Of Red Bird/Blue Cat Records - Various Artists
[1998] A long-awaited blockbuster. Finally, the true stereo mixes of some of the more memorable songs
of
the 1960s. Some of these have been available in stereo before on next-to-impossible to find LPs, and
some have been available in the weird versions from the Incense & Oldies album on Buddah,
and
some just have never been available in stereo before. Sparkling clean sound, and yes, "Leader of the
Pack" has all the lines intact, "Remember" has all the bird sounds, and "Give Him A Great Big Kiss" has
all
the vocal overdubs. There are other treats here, like "Remember" running longer than the 45, and at
2:30
of "I Can Never Go Home Anymore," the mixed-out "Listen, I'm not finished!" line restored. "People Say"
is
in real stereo for a change, not just the bells in the middle like on the original LP. Colin Escott's liner
notes
give interesting insights, such as "Iko Iko" was a recording of between-songs session diversion with later
instrumental overdubs. All in all, the best various artists CD to come out in years. A must for all
collectors.
Chapel Of Love - Dixie Cups (S)/I Wanna Love Him So Bad - Jelly Beans (S)/People Say - Dixie Cups
(S)/Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) - Shangri-Las (S, runs to 2:39)/Good Night Baby -Butterflys
(S)/Baby Be Mine - Jelly Beans (S)/The Leader Of The Pack - Shangri-Las (S, including restored line
from
1:01-1:11, slight hiss, runs long to 2:57)/You Should Have Seen The Way He Looked At Me - Dixie Cups
(S)/Give Him A Great Big Kiss -Shangri-Las (S)/The Boy From New York City - Ad Libs (S)/Little Bell -
Dixie Cups (S)/New York's A Lonely Town - Trade Winds (M)/Iko Iko - Dixie Cups (S, slight hiss)/He Ain't
No Angel - Ad Libs (S)/I Can Never Go Home Anymore - Shangri-Las (S, slight hiss)
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MCA 182 507-2 - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best of the
Shangri-Las
- Shangri-Las [2002] Remember (Walking in the Sand)/Leader of the Pack/Give Him a Great
Big
Kiss/Maybe/Out in the Streets/Give Us Your Blessings/Right Now and Not Later/I Can Never Go Home
Anymore/Long Live Our Love/He Cried/Past, Present and Future/The Sweet Sounds of Summer
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Varése Sarabande/Varése Vintage 302 066 375 2 - The Complete Red Bird
Recordings - Dixie Cups [2002] Chapel of Love (S)/Gee The Moon Is Shining Bright (S, LP
version)/I'm Gonna Get You Yet (S)/Girls Can Tell (S)/All Grown Up (S)/Iko Iko (S)/Gee Baby Gee
(S)/Ain't That Nice (M)/People Say (S, full stereo, unlike on the original LP where only the bells in the
bridge were stereo)/Little Bell (S)/No True Love (M)/You Should Have Seen The Way He Looked At Me
(S)/Another Boy Like Mine (M)/Thank You Mama, Thank You Papa (M)/Wrong Direction (M)/Gee The
Moon Is Shining Bright (M, 45 version, slightly noisy at start)/People Say (S, full stereo alternate
take)/Iko
Iko (M, "acappella" version; i.e., alternate take without background vocals and bass overdubs)
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Red Bird Label Album Discography