In 1958 at one of their car club parties, Darron and Al were quietly singing together (as they often did while on fishing trips and just cruising around)when Jim stepped up behind them and put in the high harmony to "Cherry Pie". Everyone at the party stopped talking and dancing, someone turned off the record player and everyone quietly gathered around them, you could hear a pin drop--and that was how it all started... After cutting 2 songs as a four member group called The Echoes which included bass vocalist Larry Knew,(track #18 & #24-which were produced by Herb Alpert for Andex) the guys were signed by Indigo Records and changed the group name to the name of their car club--THE INNOCENTS as a trio sans the bass voice. The rest of the cuts on this CD are THE INNOCENTS work while on Indigo during 1959 to 1962. Ace Records lovingly remastered this work in 1992. It features the hits, "Honest I Do", "Gee Whiz" and "Beware" along with other expressions of teen angst that hit the mark with their soft, intimate harmonies and vulnerability. Their music is a combination of Pop, with shades of DooWop, R&B and early Rock & Roll. Check out some of the cover songs such as "Donna" or "Beware" and you will see the groups distinctive and always original renderings on every song, backed by the top studio musicians working in Los Angeles at the time. The studio patter and musings show what it must have been like for the artists as people wandered in and out of the studio during the session-(check out "Honest I Do" track) Jim West-Lead Vocals/High Harmony Darron Stankey-Middle Harmony/Lead Vocal track #18 Al Candelaria-Low Harmony/Lead Vocal track #4