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Influenced from the Golden Gate Quartet and led from the spectacular singing of Joe Johnson, this quartet strike the public’s consciousness in the past due ’40s with “Milky White colored Way,” that they documented for Score Documents. Other users included Raleigh Tunrage (tenor), Joseph Armstrong (baritone), and Wayne Keels (bass). …

Baltimore-based R&B group the Marylanders shaped in 1945 — in accordance to Marv Goldberg’s profile in the Sept 1977 problem of Yesterday’s Memories — founders Lewis “Buster” Banking institutions (lead tenor), Johnny Paige (second tenor), David Jones (baritone), and Henry Abrams (bass) initially pursued a profession in gospel, but crossed …