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Younger brother of Jerry Butler, Billy Butler wasn’t almost as well referred to as his sibling, but recorded some okay Chicago soul in the ’60s. Documenting for OKeh under maker Carl Davis, Butler’s middle-’60s singles had been quite just like labelmates Main Lance’s and (much less certainly) Curtis Mayfield’s as …

Archie Bell & the Drells scored a left-field number 1 strike in 1968 with “SHRINK,” which epitomized the virtues of the music: funky, exuberant, danceable spirit out for a rousing great time. Given birth to in Henderson, TX, Bell was raised in Houston and started singing in chapel. In junior …

Vocal group Archie Bell & the Drells are known many for the cool, handclap-happy soul solitary “SHRINK,” popular that reached number 1 about Billboard’s R&B and Sizzling 100 charts in 1968. Bell and his Houston, Texas-based support — which presented, at varying instances, Archie’s sibling Lee Bell, Billy Butler, Joe …