The Chants

The Chants were uncommon, even among the legions of Liverpool rings building music in the first ’60s, on two counts. Initial, these were a vocal tranquility quartet inside a town that was mainly known because of its hard-rocking electrical bands. Second, these were black, inside a town that didn’t possess a whole lot of music artists among its minority populace. The Chants’ sound was a variety of R&B tranquility and a good British defeat tempo, plus they excelled at everything. Eddie Amoo, later on of the effective disco outfit Actual Thing (authorized to Pye in the ’70s), was the business lead singer, as well as the additional members had been brothers Eddie and Joe Ankrah (who may or might not have been linked to potential Demon vocalist Leslie Ankrah), and Alan Fielding, with maker Tony Hatch composing their arrangements, including among the better function of his profession in that capability. The Chants had been often supported on-stage by a number of the biggest long term stars from your city’s steady of bands, like the Beatles on many occasions, relating to Amoo. Popular locally, they by no means managed to graph a single, however they left out some superb information, including impeccably sung but rocking variations of Rodgers & Hart’s “I POSSIBLY COULD Write a Publication” (from Pal Joey), the Del-Vikings’ ’50s strike “Come Opt for Me,” and their magnum opus, the bracing “She’s Mine.” They split up in the mid-’60s and Amoo continued to success like a musician through the ’70s disco growth so that as a songwriter in the ’80s.