Sonny Charles

Fort Wayne, Indiana spirit vocalist and composer Sonny Charles was business lead vocalist for the Checkmates, LTD. in the ’60s, plus they landed a high Ten R&B strike with “Dark Pearl” in 1969. Some 13 years afterwards, Charles acquired a surprise strike using the deep spirit single “PLACE IT In A Newspaper.” The melody was documented for the unbiased Highrise label, and soared to number 2 over the R&B graphs at the same time when most observers sensed vintage spirit was dead being a industrial genre. His followup one, “Generally on My Brain,” just reached #53, and shortly both Highrise and Charles had been merely a storage.