Shout! Shout! - Ernie Maresca

 

Mary Jane

Shout! Shout!

Knock Yourself Out

Ernie Maresca

Produced by Mark Holtzman

Seville SV 77001

1962

From the back cover: In the words and music, Ernie Maresca is an uncanny phenomenon. A couple of years ago, Ernie stood on the sidelines of show business watching new stars skyrocket to success. Deep down inside, he felt the longing that goes with talent. He knew he could write the melodies and lyrics of hit songs. Ernie was positive that with a little recognition as a song-writer, fame and fortune would come to any singer who recorded his material. In no time at all, this dream became a reality. Ernie Maresca's hits orbited the earth like a Mercury Seven capsule. "A Lover's Prayer," "Runaround," "No One Knows," "the Wanderer," "Runaround Sue," "Lovers Who Wander," and many others, helped Dion, The Belmonts, The Regents, and Nino and the Ebbtides to the red carpet of stardom.

Right in the middle of all this excitement Ernie and Tom Bogdany, a neighborhood buddy, got the idea for a follow-up to the Twist called "Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out). To Seville Records Artist and Repertoire-man Marv Holtzman they came! Ernie's demonstration was exciting! Within a week Ernie had cut it and the rest is history. To the top of the charts it zoomed and as a result, Ernie Maresca is in the world-wide demand as one of America's top teen-age singing attractions

From Billboard - July 28, 1962: The kids should really find this one a winner. The album features the singer's recent smash and 11 other potent tracks by the lad. Maresco figures in as writer on all the titles, and the album supply some great swinging sounds that are solid for the teen trade. "Subway Blues," "They Don't Know," "Mary Jane," "Down On The Beach" and "I Don't Know Why" are some of the representative tracks.

Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)

Some Day You'll Change Your Ways

They Don't Known

I Don't Know 

I Don't Know Why

Down On The Beach

Crying Like A Baby Over You

Mary Jane

What A Good Is Living

How I Cry

I'm Gonna Make It Somehow

Subway Blues

Can't Forget About You