Deltas "Goodnight My Love"

TEEN GROUP HARMONY FROM FRESNO: One of my favorite versions of this George Motola standard first released by Jesse Belvin in 1956, the Deltas hail from Fresno California where the band met and formed at Fresno State College (now Fresno State University) in 1961. Members were Jim Waller (piano and organ),Terry Cristofferson (guitar),Ray Carlson (saxophone), Jeff Christensen (drums) and Eddie Atkinson (bass).
This song is from 1964 and the Deltas were led by Jim Waller and performed in many local venues in the San Joaquin Valley back in the day such as the Rainbow Ballroom and KMAK dances at Bass Lake in the foothills of the Sierras around 50 miles north of the city. Most of the Deltas music was surf music, but he did a few teen doowop 45's, and this is one of them. On a side note, the writer George Motola was married to singer and songwriter Rickie Page, (real name June Evelyn Kuykendall ) who also hailed from Fresno. Fresno is now a city of over 500,000 in the central valley (San Joaquin Valley) of California, known as the raisin capital of the world, due to their large grape agricultural operations in the area.
Enjoy the music and photos of in and around Fresno, as well as a few from the Fresno State College campus from the 1960's.