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The Skip-Jacks on LPs and TV

This tight-harmony vocal group recorded two albums and quite a few themes

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Marc Myers
Feb 17, 2026
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Like you, I thought I knew all of the major jazz-pop vocal groups of the late 1950s and early ‘60s until I stumbled onto the Skip-Jacks on YouTube last week. In fact, you definitely know who they are if you watched TV in the 1960s.

The Skip-Jacks were Stella Stevens (not the actress), Estelle Mann, Morris Redding, Ron Martin and leader Bill Bronson. The…

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