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Standing just a little over five feet high, Frederick Earl Prolonged (aka Shorty Prolonged) was among the funkiest singers to record at Motown Details. Long was created on, may 20, 1940, in Birmingham, AL. While we were young he learned all about music from people like Alvin “Stand out” Robinson …

The Bump emerged in the spring of 1969 out of Detroit’s psychedelic pop scene. The band’s founding people, bassist/vocalist George Runyan and keyboardist Paul Lupien, kept open up auditions to fill up the open electric guitar and drum positions, finally buying Alan Goldman and Jerome Charles Greenberg, respectively, who acquired …