The Velvets were an American doo-wop group from Odessa, Texas, United States.
They were formed in 1959 by Virgil Johnson, a high-school English teacher, with four of his students.
[1] Roy Orbison heard the group and signed them to Monument Records in 1960.
The four were originally Johnson's eighth-grade pupils in an English class which he instructed in Odessa in the 1959-1960 school year.
"That Lucky Old Sun" (#46) and "Tonight (Could Be the Night)" (#50) made brief appearances in the UK Singles Chart in 1961.