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The mastermind from the Parliament/Funkadelic collective through the 1970s, George Clinton split up both bands by 1981 and began recording solo albums, occasionally performing live along with his former bandmates because the P.Funk All-Stars. Delivered in Kannapolis, NC, on July 22, 1940, Clinton became thinking about doo wop while surviving …

The Parliaments were a doo wop group formed by George Clinton in 1955, come up with in the trunk room of the barbershop Clinton was working at with friends Raymond Davis, Clarence Haskins, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas. Clinton started by modeling the group after Frankie Lymon’s group, the Teens, …

An oustanding guitarist, Fuzzy Haskins was area of the unique Funkadelics backing music group that accompanied George Clinton and his Parliaments. Clinton consequently transformed the name to Parliament, after that folded Funkadelic into Parliament and started using both lineups interchangeably. Haskins continued to try out with several Clinton organizations, and …

Raymond Davis co-founded the Parliaments, the doo wop group that could later evolve to be the psychedelic funk juggernaut Parliament-Funkadelic, financing his distinctive bass vocals to R&B classics like “QUIT the Funk (Rip the Roof from the Sucka),” “A single Country Under a Groove,” and “Torch.” Delivered March 29, 1940, …