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Thurston Harris

Thurston Harris recorded using the Lamplighters, among the many groupings on the first R&B picture in South Central LA, in the first ’50s. The group afterwards evolved in to the Tenderfoots, then your Sharps, and it had been under this last name these were acknowledged to if they supported Harris …

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The Lamplighters

The L.A.-structured Lamplighters are most widely known because the group who later on evolved in to the Sharps, the backup group for Thurston Harris (“Small Bitty Pretty One particular,” number 2 R&B and number 6 play 1957 for Aladdin). Previous Hollywood Fire second tenor Willie Ray Rockwell, Matt Nelson, Al …

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