▶The Blue-Belles* - I Sold My Heart To The Junkman
▶Dinah Washington - I Sold My Heart To The Junkman
▶The Basin Street Boys - I Sold My Heart To The Junkman
▶Ruth Brown - I Sold My Heart To The Junkman
▶The Silhouettes - I Sold My Heart To The Junkman
▶Carmen McRae - I Sold My Heart To The Junkman
*El éxito de debut de Patti LaBelle & The Blue-Belles 'I Sold My Heart To The Junkman' inició una controversia cuando se descubrió que el tema pertenecía al cuarteto de Chicago The Starlets. En 1961 las Starlets habían grabado el tema con el-vendedor-de-coches-de-segunda-mano-reconvertido-en-productor Harold Robinson pero, antes de su edición en disco, Robinson reemplazó el nombre de las Starlets en favor de Patti LaBelle & The Blue-Flames, un grupo de chicas de Filadelfia que acababa de contratar para su compañía Newton. Cuando se vió a Patti LaBelle & The Blue-Belles haciendo playback en American Bandstand con la versión de las Starlets éstas las demandaron y las Blue-Belles se vieron obligadas a grabar su propia versión. Pero era demasiado tarde. Hasta hoy la versión de las Starlets aparece acreditada a las Blue-Belles. Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles’ debut smash, “I Sold My Heart to the
Junkman” sparked a firestorm of controversy when it was discovered that
the track belonged to Chicago quartet The Starlets. In 1961 the
Starlets had recorded the track with used-car salesman-turned-producer
Harold Robinson, but upon the record’s release, Robinson replaced The
Starlets’ name with Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles, a
Philadelphia-based girl group he had recently signed to his own Newton
label. When Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles were caught lip-syncing
The Starlets’ version on American Bandstand, The Starlets sued,
and the other group was forced to record their own version of the
track. But it was too late. To this day, The Starlets’ “I Sold My Heart
to the Junkman” remains credited to Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles. —
from the liner notes of One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found by Sheila Burgel (Source)
