Daddy G & The Church Street Five

In a relatively complicated situation, Daddy “G” & the Church Street Five are virtually synonymous using the band referred to as the Church Street Five. The Cathedral Road Five were the home music group for Legrand Information, playing in the early-’60s Frank Guida-produced strikes by Gary “U.S.” Bonds and Jimmy Soul. In addition they recorded independently, but even more of their produces were issued beneath the billing Daddy “G” & the Cathedral Road Five than these were simply because the Cathedral Road Five. As their name implies, the Cathedral Road Five performed music rooted within the cathedral, with joyous horns and vocal chants that sounded such as a rocked-up revival conference. The Cathedral Road Five didn’t play gospel music, nevertheless, but rock and roll & roll, setting up the R&B-charged horns connected with rockers like Small Richard, adding body organ along with a groove even more in melody with early-’60s spirit and rock. The most important element of the Chapel Road Five sound was tenor saxophonist Gene Barge, whose wealthy wails were around Bonds strikes like “One fourth to Three.” Additional important users of the group had been trombonist Leonard Barks and drummer Emmett “Nabs” Shields. Shields experienced played within the band in the Bishop Elegance Home of Prayer, a chapel in the intersection of Chapel Road and Princess Anne Street in Norfolk, VA. Therefore the name the Chapel Road Five. The Chapel Road Five also documented some singles, mainly instrumental ones, independently for Guida between 1960 and 1964. Generally, these were billed on these as Daddy “G” & the Chapel Road Five, instead of as simply the Chapel Road Five, Daddy “G” discussing Gene Barge. These were simply the Chapel Road Five, though, on the debut solitary, the instrumental “A Night time with Daddy “G”.” This is the loose model for Gary U.S. Bonds’ #1 solitary “One fourth to Three,” which required much of exactly the same riffs and melody, adding party lyrics along with a different set up. The Chapel Road Five singles had been inessential, similar-sounding good-time party instrumentals that always sounded like Gary U.S. Bonds support tracks searching for a vocal. The Cathedral Road Five musicians had been also involved with various other Guida productions, once again generally instrumental, billed to various other names, such as for example “Baby” Earl & the Trini-Dads, Ruler Coney & the Sizzling hot Dogs, as well as the South Road Six. Recordings with the Chapel Road Five and many of their variants can be noticed on Ace’s Chapel Road Five compilation, A Night time with Daddy “G.” Daddy “G” himself, Gene Barge, continued to become producer, program musician, and songwriter of take note with Chess Information within the mid-to past due ’60s.