Jewel Akens - His Best (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

He recorded with The Medallions on Dootone, with the Four Dots on Freedom, and then with singer Eddie Daniels as "Jewel and Eddie" on the Silver Records label in 1960. A number of his recordings featured Eddie Cochran on guitar. He later went solo and recorded "The Birds and the Bees" in 1964, on the Era Records label. The single went to Number 3 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart that year, and Number 2 on the Cash Box chart, and was Number 2 for 4 weeks on Canada's CHUM Chart, kept out of Number 1 by the Beatles and Herman's Hermits. It reached Number 29 in the UK Singles Chart. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. But the follow-up, "Georgie Porgie" only reached Number 68.

Akens toured regularly since 1965 and included a tribute to his mentor, Sam Cooke, in most of his shows. He also fronted a group billing itself as The Coasters, though it featured no actual original members of the group. Akens considered his cover versions of "Little Bitty Pretty One" by Thurston Harris and "You Better Move On" by Arthur Alexander to be his best work. He toured with The Monkees in the late 1960s and continued in the music business until the middle of the 1970s. Akens undertook more shows (2006–2011) with a new set of Dots, that consisted of Al Martin, Hurley D and songwriter and producer Richard Dickson.

TRACKLIST

1. Jewel Akens - The Birds and the Bees
2. Jewel Akens - Around the Corner (From My House)
3. Jewel Akens - Love Potion No. 9
4. Jewel Akens - Georgie Porgie
5. Jewel Akens - Sukiyaki (My First Lonely Night)
6. Jewel Akens - Michael
7. Jewel Akens - So This Is Love
8. Jewel Akens - It's the Only Way to Fly
9. Jewel Akens - Dear Heart
10. Jewel Akens - You Sure Know How to Hurt a Fella
11. Jewel Akens - King of the Road
12. Jewel Akens - A Slice of the Pie
13. Jewel Akens - Tic Tac Toe
14. Jewel Akens - I've Arrived
15. Jewel Akens - My First Lonely Night (Sukiyaki)
16. Jewel Akens - Sniff-Sniff-Poo-Pah-Pahdoo
17. Jewel Akens - Music Box
18. Jewel Akens - Over and Over



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