The Downbeats

The obscure Motown act referred to as the Downbeats included Johnny Dawson, Cleo Miller, and Robert Fleming. They occasionally followed Marv Johnson before he strike on United Performers Records, and slice songs for the Lupine category of brands. (Although nothing surfaced, you can find gaping blanks in Lupine’s discography which might take into account the omission.) The turn from the Downbeats’ 1st Tamla solitary, “Request of the Fool,” was released by Lupine Music, and compiled by Dawson. The A-side, “Your Baby’s Back again,” is really a ’50s throwback that decreased early in 1962, another Downbeats’ launch didn’t surface area until Dec 31, 1965. At Lupine they followed Marv Johnson, uncredited, on “A long time ago,” a lovely but neglected doo wop launch. Motown released “Darling Baby” a Holland-Dozier-Holland creation on the VIP label, and acknowledged it towards the Downbeats. Sandra Mallett became a member of Dawson, Miller, and Fleming and sung business lead on both edges. Mallett experienced the solitary “It will likely be CRISIS” b/w “Camel Walk” on Tamla as Sandra Mallett & the Vandellas in 1962. Before Motown delivered “Darling Baby,” they slapped fresh brands around the 45s efficiently changing the organizations’ name from the Downbeats towards the Elgins. It had been a unusual choice, since another band of Elgins documented for Congress Information (“Ritha Mae”) along with a ’50s group from Southern California also utilized the name. Lackadaisical advertising doomed “Darling Baby,” a tune modified from Lamont Dozier’s single discharge “Dearest One” on Melody Details, June 1962. “Dearest One” may be the initial song credited towards the songwriting group of Holland-Dozier-Holland, and is comparable to “Darling Baby.” Another Elgin one, “Heaven WILL NEED TO HAVE Delivered You,” birthed eight a few months later, it do much better than “Darling Baby,” but under no circumstances blew up. An record accompanied by another one, “I AM AWARE My Guy,” arrived, then nothing. The only real various other Elgin record to surface area on Motown was a re-release of “Heaven WILL NEED TO HAVE Sent You,” in 1971. In the past due ’80s, Ian Levine documented a revised band of Elgins that contains Dawson, Jimmy Charles, Norman McClean, and Yvonne Vernee-Allen; he documented Mallett single as Sandra Edwards.