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Shirley & Company’s lone hit, “Pity, Shame, Pity,” heralded the business rebirth of singer Shirley Goodman, starting her among the initial stars of disco some 2 decades after her initial success as half of the hugely popular R&B duo Shirley & Lee. Delivered June 19, 1936, in New Orleans, Goodman …

Spirit diva Patti LaBelle has enjoyed among the longest-lived professions in modern music, notching strikes in a number of sounds which range from young lady group pop to space-age funk to lush ballads. Delivered Patricia Holt in Philadelphia on, may 24, 1944, she was raised singing in an area Baptist …

Heavily influenced simply by Labelle as well as the Pointer Sisters, Stargard was a lady R&B vocal group which was most widely known for providing the theme song in the 1977 film Which Method Is Up. Rochelle Runnells, Debra Anderson, and Janice Williams — who comprised Stargard’s primary three-woman lineup …