The selection for this week’s Flip-Side Monday is “Two People in the World.” It was released in 1958 as the B-Side to “Tears on My Pillow.” The latter song went to #2 on the R&B Chart and #4 on the U.S. Pop Chart in 1959 and became a million seller. This helped “Two People in the World” become successful as well.

The original End Record single credits the group as The Imperials. Subsequent pressings feature lead Jerome “Little Anthony” Gourdine and  credits “Little Anthony  and The Imperials.” D.J. Alan Freed helped to promote the group on the air and gave Gourdine that nickname because of his youthful-sounding falsetto vocals. The nickname became an identifier. The group members for this record were Jerome Anthony “Little Anthony” Gourdine, Clarence Collins, Tracy Lord, Ernest Wright, Jr., and Glouster “Nate” Rogers.

Little Anthony and The Imperials, from New York, have enjoyed success and longevity as a group. They have a wide range of material in many genres (e.g., doo wop, R&B, soul) and great performances. Other popular songs from the group include “Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop,” “I’m on the Outside (Looking In),” “Goin’ Out of My Head,” “Hurt So Bad,” “Take Me Back,” and “Better Use My Head.”

Here are the lyrics to “Two People in the World”:

There’s just two kinds of people in the world
Why can’t we fall in love?
Just two kinds of people in the world
They are a boy and girl

Boy meets girl and love begins
Oh, what a feeling you get from within
Oh, I should know for I’m in love
I’m the boy, you’re the girl, all the stars up above

Just two kinds of people in the world
Why can’t we fall in love?
Just two kinds of people in the world
They are a boy and girl

Boy meets girl and love begins
Oh, what a feeling you get from within
Oh, I should know for I’m in love
I’m the boy, you’re the girl, all the stars up above

Just two kinds of people in the world
Why can’t we fall in love?

For More Golden Oldies Music

The Daily Doo Wop Rec Room has daily featured doo wop music, rock and roll hits, R&B, or rockabilly songs that were hits during the first era of rock and roll (that is, from about 1952 until the British invasion in 1964). After a song is featured, it then goes into the juke box. You are welcome to listen to any of the 40+ selections there. Every weekend, there is a Golden Oldies Juke Box Saturday Night, and the juke box is full of song requests from the 1950s and 1960s.

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