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Initial Choice lead singer Rochelle Fleming has perhaps one of the most distinct and long lasting voices from the disco era. The Philadelphia, PA, native’s vocals range between breathless urgency, as over the group’s initial big strike “Armed and intensely Harmful” (a high 20 R&B strike from 1973), to saucy, …

R&B trio Initial Choice — Rochelle Fleming, Joyce Jones, and Annette Visitor — were originally referred to as the Debonettes and performed around Philadelphia. Radio DJ Georgie Woods released the group to Philly spirit guitarist/songwriter/maker Norman Harris, who created Initial Choice’s debut solitary, “This is actually the Home Where Love …