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This Philadelphia pianist and vocalist is mainly known as an associate from the Five Red Caps, although he did strike from his own using the Romaines, an organization that alongside the Icebergs as well as the Red Leafs definitely constitute the salad days of doo-wop. In fact, the music group …

Costs Haley & His Comets tend to be credited with saving the first rock and roll & move tune, “Rock and roll A’Beatin’ Boogie,” and drive jockey Alan Freed continues to be credited for coining the word, “rock and roll & move.” Evidence is available, nevertheless, that Doles Dickens became …

Steve Gibson sang, performed different combo string tools, and was a primary force behind the Five Crimson Caps, a high R&B combo for many years. There were variants upon this group’s name, extrapolations on the amount of red hats or the theme from the cover itself, such as for example …

The talented Emmett Matthews spent at least four years in the music business but had completely retired from performing with the ’60s. While various other traditional jazz players from his era later responded the plaintive contact of stylistic revivals, Matthews thought we would remain completely from the professional picture; given …

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 …