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It isn’t exactly good to peg the Undisputed Truth being a one-hit question, because they did possess several hits for Motown in the first fifty percent from the 1970s (albeit only 1 big one), aswell as made six albums for the label. Still, it isn’t that not very true. Nothing …

An excellent, and completely underrated Uk funk music group, Olympic Joggers were led by vocalist George Chandler and maker Mike Vernon, right here extending his skills to percussion. Famed mainly because the brains in back of the famous Blue Horizon label, Vernon was also maker of early Fleetwood Mac pc, …

Among the popular family acts for the ’70s R&B circuit, Memphis’ Sylvers documented for Satisfaction, MGM, Capitol, Casablanca, and Geffen throughout their 13-year graph run. A minimum of nine from the ten siblings within the family members — Olympia, Leon, Charmaine, Wayne, Edmund, Ricky, Angie, Pat, Foster — performed within …

Produced by Tony Churchill and music-industry veteran Harvey Fuqua, New Beginning was originally called the Nite-Liters. Because the Nite-Liters, they appreciated chart actions with three R&B strikes: “K-Jee,” “Afro-Strut,” and “Draw Together.” From the three, “K-Jee” was probably the most effective, peaking at amount 17 throughout a 13-week operate. The …

A funk band located in Norfolk, Virginia, Mass Creation scored twelve charting R&B singles from 1977 through 1982 for the Cotillion label. Their early ten-member lineup contains LeCoy Bryant, Kevin Douglas, Wayne Drumgole, Agnes “Tiny” Kelly, Larry Marshall, Gregory McCoy, Rodney Phelps, Emmanuel Redding, Ricardo Williams, and Tyrone Williams. “Firecracker,” …

An interracial Michigan soul-funk group, Ripple acquired an R&B strike in 1973 with “We HAVE NO IDEA What IT REALLY IS nonetheless it Sure Is Funky,” and produced other recordings for the GRC label within the mid-’70s. These were an eclectic hodgepodge of affects circulating in spirit music at that …

Black High temperature was a short-lived ’70s funk music group that recorded briefly for Atlantic. Keyboardist Johnell Grey, guitarist Bradley Owens, bassist Chip Jones, and percussionist Raymond Green released one LP for Atlantic using a roster of visitor superstars that included David “Fathead” Newman. That they had a unitary, “VIRTUALLY …