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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 …