Latest Release
- 21 NOV 2023
- 2 Songs
- The Very Best of Doo Wop (Remastered) · 1956
- The Just Skyliners · 1958
- Since I Don't Have You (Remastered) - Single · 1959
- Since I Don't Have You · 1958
- Oldies But Goodies (Doo Wop Classics) · 1986
- The Skyliners · 1959
- The Skyliners · 1959
- Oldies But Goodies (Doo Wop Classics) · 1986
- The Skyliners · 1959
- Just Skyliners · 1958
Albums
- 2008
- 2008
- 1970
- 2021
- 2021
- 2020
Compilations
About The Skyliners
This Pittsburgh vocal group made a magnificent heartache ballad in 1959, "Since I Don't Have You." It remains among R&B's ultimate agonizing triumphs, and Chuck Jackson later did an equally gripping version. Jimmy Beaumont was the lead vocalist, with Janet Vogel, Wally Lester, Joe VerScharen, and Jackie Taylor. Beaumont, Taylor, and Lester had been in the Crescents, while Vogel and VerScharen were alumni of the El Rios. Their follow-up, "This I Swear," was a creditable effort that peaked at number 20 on the R&B charts, but few remember it. Oddly, "Since I Don't Have You" only reached number three on the R&B side and number 12 on the pop charts. But it's certainly one song for whom the numbers really don't come close to telling the story. The Skyliners had two chart singles on Callico and then had one other song reach the R&B Top 40 in 1965, "The Loser," for Jubilee. ~ Ron Wynn
- ORIGIN
- Pittsburgh, PA, United States
- FORMED
- 1959
- GENRE
- Pop