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Led by Sonny Til, the Orioles had been the first black color vocal group to sing music directly for any black color audience. Through their early recordings — that have been manufactured in the past due ’40s and early ’50s — the music group laid the groundwork for R&B vocal …

Everything “Crying in the Chapel” may concern the tragic reality that the stunning tone of voice of George Nelson was silenced forever by asthma in 1959. Further tears have already been shed over Nelson’s having fled the flock from the Orioles significantly less than a season prior to the doo …