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These Vehicle Dykes — who had an extremely strong uptown NY doo wop sound — were among the many who shared the name and even though there were different doo wop and R&B groups calling themselves the Vehicle Dykes, it’s improbable that some of them had any connection between them. …

Lead singer Adam “Shep” Sheppard co-wrote some velvety doo wop ballads for the Heartbeats through the mid-’50s; one entrance, “ONE THOUSAND Miles Apart,” was an enormous R&B vendor in 1956. The Queens, NY quintet started its string of street-corner classics with “Crazy for you personally” and “Darling How Longer,” culminating …

The Vehicle Dykes were a Tx soul trio whose sound, harmonies, and style were carefully patterned after Curtis Mayfield as well as the Impressions. Lead vocalist Rondalis Tandy created the group in 1964, teaming with tenor vocalist Wenzon Mosley, bass vocalist Wayne Mays, and falsetto designer Eddie Nixon. But Nixon …

The Odessa, TX-based Velvets are best remembered because of their violin-enriched 1961 Top 40 hit “Tonight (May be the Evening),” where the group chanted “doo-wop” behind lead singer Virgil Johnson. It had been among the initial uses from the expression in a melody (the Turbans’ usage of the expression in …

The quintessential Chicago soul group, the Impressions’ put in place R&B history will be secure if they’d completed nothing but release the careers of soul legends Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield. But a lot more than that, the Impressions documented a few of the most special vocal-group R&B from the …