A Sunday Kind of Love

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A Sunday Kind of Love (words and music: Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes, and Louis Prima) – Published in 1946, the song is a jazz standard that also became a vocal harmony group favorite in the 1950s and 60s.

Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra, vocal: Fran Warren – 1946

Jo Stafford with orchestra conducted by Paul Weston — recorded on 28 February 1947

The Jubilaires — recorded in Cincinnati in February 1947; issued on Queen Records 4163, b/w “Pray”

Excerpts from the Wikipedia page on The Jubilaires:
The Jubalaires were an American gospel group active during the 1940s and 1950s. The group initially went by the name, The Royal Harmony Singers, as far back as 1936 and under that name reached #10 on the R&B charts on November 14, 1942, with “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition”, a song adapted from the speech of a naval chaplain in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor the previous year.^[1]^[3]

Much of the Jubalaires’ music was initially issued by Queen Records, a subsidiary of King Records specializing in African-American music; later reissues appeared on King Records proper.^[6]

Ella Fitzgerald & the Andy Love Quintet with orchestra conducted by Bob Haggart — recorded on 19 March 1947

The Harptones – 1953

Oscar Peterson accompanied by an orchestra arranged by Russ Garcia – from the 1955 album In a Romantic Mood (Clef)

The Del Vikings – one of four songs on a 1957 Mercury EP, also a track on their LP They Sing…They Swing, 1957

The Sentimentals — issued in 1957 on the single Mint Records 802, b/w “Wedding Bells”

The Gothics – issued in 1959 on the single Dynamic DY 101, as the B-side of “Marilyn” (Franco)

The site Doo Wop (http://doo-wop.blogg.org) describes the band as follows:

The Gothics (with or without the apostrophe) led by Mike Franco were a white group produced by Bayside, Queens, New York record entrepreneur Jerry Love. Jerry owned a record store in Bayside, and Produced/managed a number of vocal groups. His first group were the Boulevards, local boys with Frankie Zazzo, Lou Adessa, Jim Alessandria, Bobby Thomas and Ralph Lasher. Remaining in chronological sequence, Jerry’s next group was the Gothics who hailed from the Whitestone section of Queens. The Gothics had two releases, ”Marilyn” b/w ”Sunday Kind of Love” on Dynamic and ”Love You Too Much” b/w ”My Dream” On Carol.

The High Seas — B-side of the D-M-G Records single We Go Together (Fred Hilldebrand), catalog #4000, released in June 1960

The Marcels – from their album Blue Moon, released in 1961

Etta James from her 1961 album At Last!

The Mystics — issued in August 1961 on the single Laurie 3014, b/w “Darling I Know Now” (Ralph Lizano)

The Roommates (aka the Roomates) – Cameo C-233-A, issued in November 1962, b/w “A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening” (m. Jimmy McHugh, w. Harold Adamson)

The Roommates / Cathy Jean and the Roommates links: