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The DeJohn Sisters didn’t know it at that time, however they inspired the Bonnie Sisters (“Cry Baby”) to get a recording career. After hearing the DeJohns’ “FORGET ABOUT” on the air, the music insect struck the Bonnies. On Feb 12, 1955, the DeJohn Sisters’ “(My Baby Don’t Like Me) FORGET …

The complex and exceedingly popular vocal arrangements of groups like the Association as well as the Seaside Guys in the ’60s and ’70s had some typically common inspiration, and not simply as the former group was imitating Brian Wilson. In fact, Wilson was an enormous enthusiast of Clark Burroughs, a …

With three tenors, a baritone, a bass, and pianist Erwin Bootz, the Comedian Harmonists took early 20th century American vocal harmony music and gave it a Western european, almost Teutonic sensibility. With an eclectic repertoire that got in jazz, pop, film, opera, and cabaret music, they were well-known in Germany …

Among the best female gospel groupings in america, the Clark Sisters were led by organist/vocalist Elbernita “Twinkie” Clark-Terrell. The five sisters possess continued to broaden the legacy started by their mom, Dr. Mattie Moss Clark. Dr. Clark, who offered as Country wide Music Department leader from the Cathedral of God …

The clean-cut Western world Coast-based 4 Preps are best remembered for the string of Top 100 hits through the later ’50s and early ’60s, including “26 Mls (Santa Catalina),” “Big Guy,” “Straight down by the Place,” “Lazy Summer months Evening,” “Got a woman,” “It Ain’t Hardly ever,” “Moon River,” “Lollipops …

The Chordettes were among the longest-lived vocal groups with root base in the mainstream pop and vocal harmonies from the 1940s and early ’50s. Even though the four women’s preparations owed more towards the Andrews Sisters than doo wop, they do, unlike a lot of their peers, confirm fairly adaptable …

Gospel purists might feel that that which was done towards the Charioteers is something similar to trying to carefully turn a chariot right into a Corvette. The dark gospel group, recently transformed right into a vocal pop group by enterprising record organization executives, didn’t turn the required commercial quarter using …

The Felines & the Fiddle were among a large number of harmony vocal groups to sprout in the wake from the success from the Mills Brothers. They endured much longer than a lot of their pre-World Battle II competitors, both being a executing and documenting unit and in addition as …

With a method like the Andrews Sisters, female vocal group the Beverley Sisters have already been singing together for pretty much 70 years being a trio without change in personnel throughout all of this time. They are really sisters: the oldest, Pleasure, was born on, may 5, 1929, and both …

Slim & Sam were a novelty duo that formed in 1936, comprising guitarist/singer Slim Gaillard and bassist Slam Stewart. The pair’s initial recording jointly, “Flat Feet Floogie,” would also end up being their biggest strike aswell, although other minimal hits implemented through the first ’40s (including “Tutti Frutti” and “Laughin’ …