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The Heartbeats

Lead singer Adam “Shep” Sheppard co-wrote some velvety doo wop ballads for the Heartbeats through the mid-’50s; one entrance, “ONE THOUSAND Miles Apart,” was an enormous R&B vendor in 1956. The Queens, NY quintet started its string of street-corner classics with “Crazy for you personally” and “Darling How Longer,” culminating …

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