Close Your Eyes-The “Original” Five Keys---LIVE---1983

Back to the magnificent Five Keys again for a later recording. Maryland Pierce and Rudy West recreate their original “call-and-response-echo” leads from their second recording during the Capitol Label years. It became a big national #5 R n ’B hit from early 1955. They are backed up by Ramon Loper (who replaced Dickie Smith), Ripley Ingram, and Rudy’s brother, Bernie. This clip is from the great revival concert at Burlington County in 1983. The Five Keys “set” of 11 songs performed there (You’ll hear many more later!) represents--to me--one of the very best documented performances of any 1950s R n’ B group.