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U.K. disco simply wasn’t the same following the electro-vamping two-hit miracles 5000 Volts shook in the picture in 1975. 5000 Volts was shaped by two pretty well-known program vocalists, ex-Wild Honey vocalist Tina Charles and Martin Jay — the set had previously worked well together inside a music group called …

LA R&B group the Turks traced its roots towards the 1952 development from the Flamingos. Regarding to Marv Goldberg’s profile in the June 1977 problem of Yesterday’s Thoughts, that short-lived but historically significant group comprised business lead tenor Cornelius Gunter, initial tenor Gaynel Hodge, baritone Curtis Williams, and bass Richard …

b. Andreas Cornelius truck Kuijk, 26 June 1909, Breda, holland, d. 21 January 1997, NEVADA, Nevada, USA. Since his loss of life, there still continues to be bitter department about Parker. Was he Sam Katzman’s ‘biggest con musician in the globe’ or simply an unsophisticated fairground barker sucked right into …

Vocalist Thelma Houston is most beneficial known on her behalf number 1 pop basic disco cover of “Don’t Keep IN THIS MANNER.” Originally popular for Harold Melvin & the Blue Records offering Teddy Pendergrass, the Gamble & Huff/Cary Gilbert music soars with the gospel music-honed vocals from the Leland, Mississippi, …

Rosie & the Originals are among the best-remembered one-shot performers of the first rock era, addressing number five making use of their 1960 sole “Angel Baby.” A sluggish, basic, and primitively documented and carried out doo wop-shaded ballad, it had been recognized from countless additional records of the type by …

Although most widely known towards the listening public most importantly for his lone headlining hit, the disco blockbuster “The Hustle,” Vehicle McCoy actually enjoyed an extended and remarkably prolific career behind the scenes like a songwriter and producer, turning up some soul hits ahead of his early death at age …

Vicki Sue Robinson turned the disco and pop music world ugly with her rousing 1976 TOP Pop smash “Convert the Defeat Around.” A solid, radiant vocalist, Robinson’s information were among among the better produced and organized ’70s disco produces, with solid beats constructed on solid music. Blessed in Harlem in …

Larry Elgart is apparently something of the unstoppable force in dance music group and big-band music, bordering on jazz mostly with the appropriation of varied swingy instrumentalists to fill up section rates. The Elgart name itself is normally legendary in this sort of music; sibling Les Elgart also fronts his …