Tag Archives: Chateaus

Paul Leka is one particular names that helps to keep arriving in tales regarding many fondly remembered tracks and rings (and also one non-band) through the 1960s onward. He was one particular rare really prodigious musicians who was simply as well talented to limit himself to really being a person …

Newport Information, VA-based R&B vocal group the Chateaus formed in 1952 — according to Marv Goldberg’s profile in the Dec 1976 problem of Yesterday’s Recollections — initial tenor Fred Harris, second tenor Oliver Sidney, falsetto Leroy Jones, bass Charles Sidney, and baritone/pianist George Winfield originally dubbed themselves “the Flamingos”, but …