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R&B diva Damita Jo remains to be most widely known for the million-selling 1960 smash “I’ll Save the final Dance for you personally,” her ingenious riposte towards the Drifters’ “Save the final Dance for me personally.” Given birth to Damita Jo DuBlanc in Austin, TX, on August 5, 1930, she …

R&B combo the Five Crimson Hats formed in NEW YORK in 1943. Based on Marv Goldberg’s profile within the November 1991 problem of Discoveries, the group once was referred to as the Four Toppers, whose Los Angeles-based initial lineup — tenor/drummer Jimmy Springs, second tenor David Patillo, baritone/bass participant Richard …