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The “5” Royales

The “5” Royales were a comparatively unheralded, but significant, link between early R&B and early soul within their mix of doo wop, jump blues, and gospel styles. Their industrial success was fairly modest — that they had seven TOP R&B strikes in the 1950s, most documented in the period of …

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