NEW 📀 Silhouettes - The Rays “Live“ {DES Stereo} 1957
1957......#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100
Apologies for the sub-par quality of the original video.
Original live performance video from The Ed Sullivan Show edited and AI remastered with stereo sound / To find out more about spectral editing and sound source separation, go to
“Silhouettes“ is a song made famous by the doo-wop group the Rays in 1957, peaking at number 3 on the U.S Billboard Hot 100. A competing version by the Diamonds was also successful. In 1965 it was a number 5 hit in the US for Herman’s Hermits, and in 1990 it was a number 10 hit in the UK for Cliff Richard.
The Rays were an American group formed in New York City in 1955, and active into the early 1960s. They first recorded for Chess Records. Their biggest hit single was “Silhouettes“, a moderately-slow doo-wop piece of pop music that reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1957 on Cameo after being initially released on the small XYZ Records. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. The song was written by Bob Crewe and Frank Slay, Jr. Also on XYZ, they had a minor hit with “Mediterranean Moon“ a mid-chart hit with “Magic Moon“ (by this time, XYZ was being nationally distributed by London Records).
In May 1957, songwriter Bob Crewe saw a couple embracing through a windowshade as he passed on a train. He quickly set about turning the image into a song. Frank Slay, who owned the small Philadelphia record label XYZ with Crewe, added lyrics, and they soon had a complete song ready to record.
The story has frequently been reported that Slay heard the Rays audition for Cameo-Parkway Records, for which he worked, and immediately decided that they were the perfect group for “Silhouettes“. However, Slay and Crewe were actually already familiar with the group, as “Silhouettes“ was their third single with them. Neil Arena of the original Mello-Kings maintains that Slay and Crewe had first written the song for their group, but since they were away on tour and unable to record it when Crewe offered it to Herald Records boss Al Silver, the writers opted for the Rays instead.
The song received a break when popular Philadelphia disc jockey Hy Lit fell asleep with a stack of newly released records on his record player. “Silhouettes“ happened to be the last to play, and so it repeated until he woke up. He began to play the song on his show. It became popular enough that Cameo-Parkway picked it up for national distribution, and it eventually reached number 3 on both the R&B Best Sellers chart and Billboard Top 100, while also hitting the top five on both the sales and airplay charts. It was the group’s only top 40 hit.
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