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Through the early to mid-’70s, Bobby DeBarge, Eddie Fluellen, Phillip Ingram (brother of James Ingram), Jody Sims, and Gregory Williams had been within the Ohio-based White Heating. The music group backed Barry Light and documented a self-titled record — released by RCA in 1975 — made by the maestro. Budgetary …

When the O’Jays, the Dramatics, or Bloodstone had added a lady singer and incorporated bebop-influenced harmonies, they could have sounded something similar to SIDE-EFFECT — a unique soul and funk vocal quartet from the ’70s and early ’80s. SIDE-EFFECT was never a huge name in R&B — and its own …