The In Crowd

CTL-E-5293 · Work · album · 1965

VERIFIED evidence grade of this record

The In Crowd is a live album by the Ramsey Lewis Trio — pianist Ramsey Lewis, bassist Eldee Young, and drummer Red Holt — recorded May 13–15, 1965, at the Bohemian Caverns nightclub in Washington, D.C., and released that July on the Argo label. Produced by Esmond Edwards, the album centers on the trio's instrumental reading of “The 'In' Crowd,” Billy Page's song that had been a hit for Dobie Gray the year before. The album topped the Billboard R&B chart and reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and it was certified gold; the title single reached No. 5 on the Hot 100 and No. 2 on the R&B chart. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance — Small Group or Soloist with Small Group, and the title track was nominated for Record of the Year; in 2009 the single entered the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The record

• Also known as: The 'In' Crowd

Notes

Staged 2026-10-15 under CTL-GOV-006 (Next Slate D3). Gate A clear (no existing Work of this name; containment sweep also checked 'In Crowd' against all names/aliases). Gate B met (4 sources incl. Recording Academy). BILLING CARRIED EXACTLY: the album is billed to the Ramsey Lewis Trio; the authored_by edge runs to Ramsey Lewis (CTL-E-0030) because the schema allows Work→Person and the Trio has no entity of its own — the full reasoning is stated in the edge evidence and the packet; a Ramsey Lewis Trio group entity is the noted future branch (an Event, CTL-E-3967, already names the Trio). Statistics carried: album No. 1 R&B / No. 2 Billboard 200; single No. 5 Hot 100 / No. 2 R&B; RIAA Gold; Grammy Hall of Fame 2009. Grammy category carried in the official winners-list wording (FactMonster's reproduction of the Recording Academy results) over looser paraphrases in secondary coverage. CTL treatment: CTL Short #17, published 2026-10-06/07 (Shorts link map flags the queue URL as a recorded conflict; the published URL is on file in the 2026-10-05 upload record — parent resolves wiring at merge). No CTL Archive score for this album was located in the canon manifest consulted — the packet's Curator's Judgment makes no score claim. Photo slot: CANDIDATE named in packet (Commons, CC BY 2.0); nothing downloaded.

Relationships

• Ramsey Lewis — authored by
  The album is billed to the Ramsey Lewis Trio — Ramsey Lewis (piano), Eldee Young (bass), and Red Holt (drums) — recorded live at Bohemian Caverns, Washington, D.C., May 13–15, 1965. The schema's authored_by allows Work→Person endpoints, and the Trio has no graph entity of its own (only the Event CTL-E-3967 names it), so the edge runs to Lewis (CTL-E-0030) as the Trio's leader and namesake, with the Trio billing stated exactly here and in the Work's record. A Ramsey Lewis Trio group entity is the noted future branch.

Sources

• GRAMMY.com (Recording Academy), Ramsey Lewis artist biography — three Grammy Awards including The In Crowd (primary source)
• Wikipedia, “The In Crowd (Ramsey Lewis album)” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_In_Crowd_(Ramsey_Lewis_album) — recording dates, label, chart positions, Grammy Hall of Fame 2009
• FactMonster, “1965 Grammy Awards” winners list — Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group: The “In” Crowd, Ramsey Lewis Trio
• RIAA Gold & Platinum database listing, as tabulated for Ramsey Lewis — The In Crowd certified Gold (Argo, 1965)

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