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The Developments — never to be confused using the mid-’60s Liverpool/Merseybeat act — were among the Chicago soul vocal groups signed to ABC-Paramount through arranger/producer Johnny Pate. Pate created strikes for the label on Curtis Mayfield as well as the Impressions. Hailing through the city’s west aspect, its members had …

The Developments were a comparatively small Liverpool act formed within the early-middle 1960’s. Accounts differ, some stating that they began because the Beachcombers, which in turn became the Beatcombers, before turning out to be Mike & The Mersey Males, before getting the Trends-others state that the Beatcombers had been merely …