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Doo wop group the Pastels formed in 1954. At that time, business lead DiFosco “Dee” Erwin, 1st tenor Richard Travis, second tenor Tony Thomas, and baritone Jimmy Willingham had been all stationed at a U.S. Atmosphere Force foundation in Narsarssuak, Greenland, and their first live looks were together with armed …

Not linked to the Moonglows aside from the current presence of Harvey Fuqua mainly because leader and business lead vocalist, Harvey & the Moonglows’ additional members within their preliminary lineup were Marvin Gaye, Reese Palmer, James Knowland, and Chester Simmons, almost all recruited simply by Fuqua wholesale away of their …

Doo wop group the Velvetones formed in Newark, NJ, in 1943. Based on the content on Marv Goldberg’s R&B Notebooks internet site (http://home.att.net/~marvy42/marvart.html), the original Velvetones were tenor business lead Madison Flanagan, second tenor and bassist Walter Dawkins, baritone and guitarist Sam Rucker, and pianist/arranger Enoch Martin, plus they spent …

South Flex, Indiana-based R&B group the Delcos formed in 1961 — according to Marv Goldberg’s profile in the 1972 problem of Record Exchanger — initial tenor Pike Miller, tenor Peter Woodard, tenor/baritone Richard Greene, and bass Otis Smith initial met as learners at South Flex Central SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. A …

Created in 1998, Legends of Doo Wop features members from four 1950s vocal teams. Jimmy Gallagher was an associate from the Passions, who experienced popular with “Merely to Become With You.” Tony Passalacqua (aka Tony Passa) experienced strikes with “Chapel Bells” and “Oh Rosemarie” when he was an associate from …

Most widely known for the main R&B strike “My True Tale,” the Jive Five were mostly of the vocal groupings to survive the changeover in the ’50s towards the ’60s. Along the way, they helped move the music itself forwards, providing an integral hyperlink between doo wop and ’60s spirit. …

The Dominoes (also sometimes referred to as Billy Ward & the Dominoes) had among the finest music pedigrees of any R&B vocal band of the 1940s, a minimum of predicated on its founder’s teaching and experience. A whole lot of R&B functions came out of the gospel history, and Bo …

There may have been a huge selection of groups through the 1950s which used the name the Chimes. Just the quintet from Brooklyn — Lenny Cocco (business lead), Pat DePrisco (1st tenor), Richard Mercado (second tenor), Joseph Croce (baritone), Pat McGuire (bass) — available the charts, nevertheless, or became a …