The Five C’s

Gary, IN-based R&B vocal group the Five C’s shaped in 1951 — based on Marv Goldberg’s profile on his R&B Notebooks site, founders Clarence Anderson (lead tenor), Curtis Nevils (tenor), and Carlos Patterson (bass) originally adopted the name 3 C’s, and performed like a trio even though finishing their professions in Gary’s Froebel SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. After graduation, the group extended with the improvements of baritone Melvin Carr and high tenor Harvey Honey, nicknaming the latter “Clyde” exclusively for the reasons of precision in renaming themselves the Five C’s. Because all five users worked within the Gary mills, these were pressured to restrict their live looks to weekends, but by past due 1953 they’d gained plenty of to enter Chicago’s Common Recording Studio room to slice their debut solitary, “Inform Me.” Issued in early 1954 on the neighborhood United label, the disk was a local hit, as well as the Five C’s reentered the studio room in-may to slice their sophomore work, “My Heart’s Got the Blues,” supported by saxophonist Eddie Chamblee’s orchestra. The record produced less of a direct effect than its forerunner, along with a third United program continues to be unreleased. Carr quit the group immediately after to become listed on the military, along with fresh baritone Leroy “Clifford” Hicks, the Five C’s continuing intermittently for over ten years, never again saving but playing the casual Froebel Large alumni gathering and so on. In the past due ’60s, they also shared a costs with another Gary quintet: an up-and-coming sibling group known as the Jackson 5.