The Fi-Tones

Originally a Brooklyn-based street corner vocal group calling themselves the Cavaliers Quartet, the Fi-Tones first changed their name to the Fi-Tones Quintette after the core group -- Cecil Holmes, Marlowe (aka "Lowe") Murray, and Ron Anderson (bass) -- added Gene Redd (lead vocals) and Lloyd Davis (lead vocals) to their lineup. Their first recordings, in 1954, were for Tommy Robinson's Harlem-based independent Atlas Records and were played by Alan Freed and Tommy "Dr. Jive" Smalls in the New York area thoughout the fall and early winter of 1955. Of these, "Foolish Dreams" fa...