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The Salutations recorded several singles, both novelty cuts and like ballads, for various brands in the first and mid-’60s, but were not able to split either the pop or R&B graphs. The group, that was also called Vito as well as the Salutations, documented for House, Kram, Rayna, Herald, Regina, …

Tony Clarke was a songwriter and singer who scored his biggest successed with “Pushover” and “Two Edges Tto Every Tale,” that have been big strikes for Etta Wayne. His own documenting success was more limited, restricted to “The Entertainer,” which reached amount 31 in the pop graphs and amount ten …

The Enchanters were the music group led by soul vocalist Garnet Mimms in the mid-’60s. Mims disbanded his earlier group the Gainors in 1961 and teamed with Charles Boyer, Sam Bell and Zola Pearnell. But Mimms’ maker Jerry Ragovoy would occasionally use the Lovely Inspirations to back again Mimms as …

The Marvelows were a Chicago soul group who scored only once, using the upbeat “I REALLY DO,” a pop Top 40 hit in 1965. The group was produced in Chicago Heights, IL, when Melvin Mason fulfilled the lately relocated Paden brothers (Frank who sang bass, and Johnny who sang tenor) …

Bronx sextet the Excellents originally formed because the Premiers in 1960, with a genuine lineup of brothers John Kuse and George Kuse, as well as Denis Kestenbaum, Phil Sanchez, Joel Feldman, and Chuck Epstein, quickly transformed in to the Excellents. The group captured the ear of Vinny Catalano of Sinclair …