Bassist/songwriter/manufacturer/multi-instrumentalist/arranger Timmy Allen co-produced Stephanie Mills’ number 1 R&B strike “(You’re Puttin’) A Hurry on Me personally.” Allen continues to be associated with strikes with the Backstreet Children, Glenn Jones, Transformation, Freddie Jackson, and a slew of others. From Philadelphia, Allen performed bass in the brand new York music group …

In the ’60s, when John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman were defining the idea of a jazz avant-garde, few knowledgeable observers could have guessed that in another 30 years the music’s mainstream would virtually bypass their innovations, and only the hard bop style that free jazz had apparently supplanted. Since it …

Aretha Franklin is among the giants of spirit music, and even of American pop all together. More than every other performer, she epitomized spirit at its most gospel-charged. Her amazing run of past due-’60s strikes with Atlantic Information — “Respect,” “I Hardly ever Loved a guy,” “String of Fools,” “Baby …

Chris and Ken Whiteley are well-known statistics in the Toronto-area blues picture as well as the picture in Canada. Blessed in the U.S., they’ve produced Toronto their house bottom since 1956. Blues scholars, studio room owners, and impresarios, the Whiteley Brothers’ understanding of acoustic and electrical blues is certainly matched …

The Versatiles vocal trio was formed in 1967 by Keith Byles, Louis Davis and Earl Dudley. The three vocalists embarked on documenting classes with Joe Gibbs, who experienced just setup his Amalgamated label. Their debut, “CANNOT Get’, was the 3rd launch through the producer’s UK wall plug and launched the …

“Eddie My Like,” a lovely ballad from the Teenager Queens, clawed its method to quantity 14 within the pop graphs on March 31, 1956. This happened despite pop addresses from the Chordettes, as well as the Fontaine Sisters — all three damaged the pop Best 20 the same yr. The …

Melding rockabilly, retro-country, and blues designs right into a rollicking dance-friendly cocktail, the Riptones are one of the most traditionally oriented rings on Chicago’s wild-and-wooly alt-country picture. Led by guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Jeb Bonansinga, the music group produced in 1990, with Bonansinga became a member of by his sibling …

Unlike a wide-eyed, nostalgia-fed pop vocal trio who documented for Epic through the middle 1950s as Somethin’ Smith & the Redheads, the jazz band recognized to the record buying public through the mid- to past due 1920s as the Red Heads had not been a knot of neo-vaudevillians topped with …

The O’Jays were among Philadelphia soul’s most popular and long-lived outfits, rivaled only with the Spinners as soul’s greatest vocal band of the ’70s. Within their excellent, the O’Jays’ recordings epitomized the Philly spirit sound: smooth, wealthy harmonies supported by elaborate preparations, lush strings, and some modern funk. They proved …

Mick Underwood offers enjoyed among the longer professions as a rock and roll drummer in Britain, from the first ’60s to the start of the 21st hundred years and still keeping track of. He spent some time working in most from the main rock and roll genres and varieties of …