Sheriff and The Ravels Apparently, The Ravels were a Brooklyn streetcorner group, just another of many hundreds of similar singing lads, looking for a shot at the big time (or at least a spin on Dr. Jive's show on WWRL). One of their acquaintances, a man named Elmore Sheriff, had a song he had written back in 1955 that he called "Shombalor". Sheriff knew a guy named Aki Aleong, who was working as an actor and was heavy into the doo-wop scene (his Read more on Last.fm