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Detroit local Garry Glenn was a gifted songwriter, vocalist, and keyboardist. As an adolescent he toured along with his sister, the gospel vocalist Beverly Glenn, but transformed his focus on composing in the 1980s, penning music for the Feelings, Earth, Breeze & Fireplace, Freddie Jackson, Eddie Kendricks, as well as …

Rating over 40 strikes for the R&B Best 40 graphs, the Wonders started out because the Five Chimes within the mid-’50s as the people had been still in senior high school. The Detroit vocal group contains William “Smokey” Robinson, Warren “Pete” Moore, Clarence “Humble” Dawson, Donald Wicker, and Wayne “Rat” …

One of the R&B vocal organizations to record because the Pyramids, this specific combo formed in New Haven, CT, in 1955. Based on Marv Goldberg’s profile within the July 1997 problem of Discoveries, founding people Joe Stallings (tenor business lead), Hubert Saulsbury (initial tenor), Roland Douglas, Jr. (baritone), and Richard …

The Parliaments were a doo wop group formed by George Clinton in 1955, come up with in the trunk room of the barbershop Clinton was working at with friends Raymond Davis, Clarence Haskins, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas. Clinton started by modeling the group after Frankie Lymon’s group, the Teens, …

A versatile drummer that has mainly been from the avant-garde, Pheeroan akLaff has appeared with a number of the more adventurous music artists in jazz of days gone by 20 years. In early stages, he used Jay Hoggard (1975) and in New Haven, CT, with Leo Smith’s New Dalta Ahkri. …