Album: The Best Of The Penguins (1954)

Charted: 8

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• Earth angel, earth angel
  Will you be mine?
  My darling dear
  Love you all the time
  I'm just a fool
  A fool in love with you
  
  Earth angel, earth angel
  The one I adore
  Love you forever and ever more
  I'm just a fool
  A fool in love with you
  
  I fell for you and I knew
  The vision of your love, loveliness
  I hope and I pray that someday
  I'll be the vision of your hap-happiness, oh, oh
  
  Earth angel, earth angel
  Please, be mine
  My darling dear
  Love you all the time
  I'm just a fool
  A fool in love with you
  
  I fell for you and I knew
  The vision of your loveliness
  I hope and pray that someday
  That I'll be the vision of your happiness, oh
  
  Earth angel, earth angel
  Please, be mine
  My darling dear
  Love you all the time
  I'm just a fool
  A fool in love with you (you, you, you) Writer/s: Curtis Williams, Gaynel Hodge, Jesse Lorenzo Belvin
  Publisher: MUSIC SALES CORPORATION
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 15

• Ben from Hill Valley, CaliforniaI remember back almost 70 years ago, at my school’s “Enchantment Under The Sea” dance when the band played this song. Some of the guitar parts sounded way off, but the guy ended well. The creepy thing about that night is that after “Earth Angel”, they played a song that sounded identical to a song called “Johnny B. Goode”, which came out a couple years later. The guy, I think his name was Calvin Klein, then started playing his guitar like people would do around 30 years later. That was the weirdest school dance I ever went to.
• Johnnie Parker from Sierra Vista AzActually Earth Angel was released October 1954
• Stanley Telega from Ossining, NyAlan Freed, a disc jockey from New York, played a lot of music by black performers. Earth Angel was one of them. IMHO, the black performers were noticeably better than the white ones and that is what I collected. I just sold my copy of Earth Angel on Dootone, 78 RPM, today as I am selling all of my doo wops. I have Earth Angel on 78, 45, 331/3, compact disc and now streaming.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 13th 1960, Johnny Tillotson performed a covered version of "Earth Angel" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
  At the time his "Earth Angel" was in its first week on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, and was at position #74; a little over a month later on May 15th, 1960 it would peak at #57 {for 1 week} and spent 7 weeks on the Top 100...
  And on the same 'Bandstand' show he also performed the record's B-side, "Pledging My Love", and it was also in its first week on the Top 100 at position #86; it stayed on the chart for 6 weeks, peaking at #63...
  Mr. Tillotson will celebrate his 76th birthday in one week on April 20th {2015}.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 11th 1970, Tiny Tim, accompanied by the all-girl band Enchanted Forest, performed "Earth Angel" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
  R.I.P. Tiny Tim, born Herbert Khaury, (1932 - 1996) and Mr. Sullivan (1901 - 1974).
• John from Mineola, Ny"Earth Angel" was certainly a fine song, a classic, even, but not doo-wop! It was a Tin Pan Alley ballad. The B-side, "Hey Senorita", was doo-woop, and has been so underrated as to be practically unknown today. Ironically, "Hey Senorita" was originally intended to be the A-side. Too bad it didn't stay that way.
• Musicmama from New York, NyOK, I admit it. I've become my mother. This has always been her favorite song. It's not number one for me, but it's very high on my list. I mean, who wouldn't want to slow-dance with his or her sweetie to this song? But what I love most about this song is its vocals: They're innocent and complex at the same time. The only song from the fifties that I like as much is Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue."
• Darrell from EugeneThere is also a version of this song that has material about a concert hall called (I think, it's been well over 40 years and I've never lived in California) El Monte, and the added lines are (I think) about a couple dancing to this song at El Monte. I have not heard this version of "Earth Angel" since Nixon was president and we were in another useless, illegal war, but in Vietnam and not Iraq, so I cannot remember the exact details. Maybe someone else on Songfacts can fill me in.
• Phil from Sydney, AustraliaU guys haven't heard of Human Nature's live version that they did for the musical "Happy Days"!
• Jim from Avon, CtFunny, when I was a kid, I thought this was Johnny Tillotson's song...I never heard the Penguins' version until much, much later!
• Frank from Westminster, ScIn the US, this so called "race music" was only heard in the black community, for the most part. White solo acts and groups began to take these songs to a white public and make them into hit records. Unfortunately, most of the performers didn't have a genuine feel for the music, so it was all pretty tame and lifeless, as compared to the original black artists. Over the course of time, the originals have pushed the cover versions aside. You almost never hear Pat Boone, the Crewcuts, the Mc Guire Sisters or other white covers of these classic songs anymore on US stations; only the originals. Unfortunately, many of the performers and songwriters got screwed out of their royalties by the slick operators in the music industry.
• Edward from S'pore, Singaporebloody brilliant,
  The Crew cuts version is darn right inferior compared to this, but why did the public still lap it all up and sent it up to #3..
• Jerry from Brooklyn, NyBoxz II Men did a great cover of this. They used the same chart and nailed it perfectly.
• Rob from Santa Monica, CaThis is the song Marty McFly is playing onstage when he begins to disappear from existence in 'Back to the Future'.
• Cynthia from Phoenix, Azit is truly one of the best oldie songs of all time!

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