Yes, The Anita Kerr Singers were known as The Little Dippers on that one record, "Forever." It was done for writer, publisher, Buddy Killen as a demo.

As long as you don't use the same name as artist, you are legally allowed to have multiple label releases. The Anita kerr Singers sang on Brenda Lee's hits to include, "Rocking Around The Christmas Tree" and so many other hit records like Bobby Helms' "JIngle Bell Rock" and "You Are My Special Angel" plus Burl Ives's "Holly Jolly Christmas" and oh so many more. In the 60's you also heard them sing WLS station ID's in Chicago, KMPC in L.A. and many other radio stations around the country and they regularly appeared on Arthur Godfrey. When Anita moved to L.A. she also was singing regularly and the theme song to on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. So, pull out your old Roy Orbison, Jim Reeves, Eddie Arnold, Al Hirt, Brenda Lee records just to name a few and listen to The Anita Kerr Singers. Anita also was the arranger on the Roy Orbison hits as well as the Al Hirt hits. Anita also produced, "The End of the World" by Skeeter Davis.  After leaving L.A. she moved to Switzerland where she still resides. Europe fell captive to the beautiful blend of voices with her lyric soprano too. Some bios have her returning to Memphis, (hometown) but that was only for a while. Switzerland is where her daughters and grandchildren live, so that's where she is now. Visit http://www.anitakerr.com for pics of and samples of her music.

Marty: That Anita Kerr 'From Nashville...Hit Sound' LP is excellent, however their 2nd (or 3rd?) RCA album from 1962 'Tender Words' (LSP 2679) is even better - Take Good Care Of My Baby / Tragedy / I Love How You Love Me / As Long As He Needs Me / My Johnny Is Gone / Young Love / Joey / Come Softly To Me / Too Young To Go Steady / Why Don't They Understand / Let It Be Me / A Rose And A Baby Ruth.

It's now very hard to find, indicating that people are hanging onto their copies.  If only some enterprising label would issue those 2 albums as a 2-fer.

...And I'm still waiting for someone to issue their '62 charting 45 for RCA 'Joey Baby' on a CD.

Isn't it interesting how many times a tiny insignificant labels managed to get a hit when, if the same song had been released on a "major" label ("Forever" on Decca as the Anita Kerr Singers, for example) they couldn't have gotten arrested?!

Looking back at 1959-61, it's amazing how many "out of left field" labels had monster hits; Jive Five on Beltone, Sarfaris on Eldo, Paradons on Milestone, Toni Fisher (Miss) on Signet, Little Dippers on University, The Paris Sisters on Gregmark, and the list goes on.  (How was it possible that Minneapolis radio stations played The Velaires' "Roll Over Beethoven" when it was still on the Phoenix label, Palms, before Jamie picked it up for national distribution?)

Those were the days.....radio stations got hundreds and hundreds of promos monthly, and the program directors actually listened to the promos....read the advanced lead sheets from the labels and industry magazines, and actually occasionally broke songs on their radio station.

I would love someone to do a book on origins of hits...where the independent single first broke, who was responsible for giving it a chance, how it broke nationwide, and which hits that were regional-only did in those regional markets.

A single that got to #45 in Billboard might've broke huge in a few markets only...rather than just selling moderately well everywhere.

I don't think I've ever seen a book dealing with this kind of regional action.

I'd sure be in line to buy such a book.

Another case in point;  in Minneapolis back then, they used to have news headlines at :55 and they often filled in 30-60 second of time by talking with an instrumental in the background.

One of the stations started playing "Love Is Blue" by Paul Maurat this way and they were the first station to play it....they got requests for the whole song and it broke first here in Minneapolis.  Not so much my kinda hit, but I remember that that's the way it happened.

I also know that The Who's "My Generation" didn't reach #74 because most big markets played it a bit and people didn't buy it much....it never got airplay in Minneapolis and I believe it was a bit hit in Boston and a few other markets which pushed it "nationally" to 74.

I get the feeling that most of the singles that charted only higher than 50 were mostly regional hits....and not nationally played.

FWIW ... Tender Words was their 3rd RCA LP ... "The Genius" in Harmony (which I am guessing contains Ray Charles songs) was their 2nd ... Mellow Moods of Love was their 4th ... followed by We Dig Mancini ... and Sunday Serenade was their last '60s RCA LP ...