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A quintet from Western world Philadelphia that shaped around 1962, these were originally called the Fabulous Real estate agents, they shortened the moniker if they recorded “You’re Everything” b/w “You Were DESIGNED FOR Me personally” (1965) on P&L Information. The lineup contains Nat Williams (lead), Kenneth Davis (initial tenor), Warren …

Opinion continues to be widely mixed approximately the merits of Philadelphia rapper Jesse B. Weaver, Jr. aka Schoolly D. A long time before the issue about gangsta rap lyrics became a good way to obtain national newsprint, there is outrage over Schoolly D’s explicit and undiluted narratives on internal city …

Pianist Darrell Grant’s second record being a bandleader is named THE BRAND NEW Bop, a name that amounts up his simultaneously backward-looking and forward-thinking cosmetic. Give is steeped within the customs of bop and post-bop jazz, but he also offers a thorough understanding of both R&B and right pop (he’s …

The feminine trio in charge of the proto-disco funk classic “Female Marmalade,” LaBelle’s outlandish space-age costumes and brash incorporation of rock and roll & move were a long way off from their start as an average ’60s female group, not forgetting the afterwards solo career of frontwoman Patti LaBelle. While …