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The Drapels — Mary and Johnny Frierson (siblings), Marianne Brittenum, and Wilbur Mondie — had two releases on Stax Information. Johnny Frierson, Brittenum, and Mondie had been the oldest (within their past due teenagers), while Mary was about 15. Just Johnny experienced any encounter; he performed guitar and experienced sung …

A relatively minor participant on the middle-’60s Memphis spirit picture, Johnnie Frierson got his start at a age, joining gospel act the Sunset Travelers while still an adolescent. The entire year was 1964 and he produced his 1st appearance on record playing acoustic guitar around the Travelers’ Peacock label one …

The Supreme Jubilees were a gospel-R&B family band that formed in Fresno, California in the first 1970s. Originally a quartet, the group trim an individual for Peacock Information subsidiary Song Parrot in 1973. Small came of the early business, and within the arriving years the music group was slowly extended …