The Southlanders

The Southlanders was a Jamaican and British vocal group formed in 1950 by Edric Connor and Vernon Nesbeth. Nesbeth had received singing lessons from Connor, and when the latter decided to record an album of Jamaican songs, he asked Nesbeth to assemble a vocal backing group. Besides Nesbeth, other members of the group were Frank Mannah, and brothers Harold and Allan Wilmot. Songs from Jamaica was released in 1954 with the group credited as "The Caribbeans". Connor persuaded the group to appear with him in cabaret in London's Celebrity Restaurant to promote the album. During the following year, the group was briefly known as "The South Londoners" and "The Southerners", but when they made their second recording providing harmony vocals to Connor on Songs from Trinidad, the group had settled on the name The Southlanders. They later recorded a third album with Connor. The group's biggest commercial hit, and its only appearance in the UK Singles Chart, was their 1957 cover version of "Alone", which sold more than one million copies. "Alone", released by Decca Records, entered the Chart on 22 November 1957 and spent 10 weeks in the chart, peaking at number 17 on 28 November. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sou...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)