The Five Sharps

The Five Sharps were a short-lived vocal group through the Jamaica housing projects in Queens, NY, and so are most widely known today for his or her “Stormy Weather” (Jubilee), which is today considered probably one of the most collectible doo wop singles ever released. In 1952, this youthful quintet — led by 1st tenor Bobby Ward — documented a genuine “Sleepy Small Cowboy” and “Stormy Climate,” popular ten years previously for Lena Horne. The Five Sharps’ edition was very much slower in speed, crudely harmonized and documented, and had inexpensive sound files of clapping thunder. The documenting session took a lot of the day time as well as the quintet had been paid in popular dogs and soda. Jubilee 5104 was the Five Sharps’ just release and made an appearance to get in 1953. Shortly afterward, the Five Sharps split up and several the members became a member of the military. End of tale. Two from the Sharps, Clarence Bassett and business lead vocalist Ronald Cuffey, later on documented in 1958 for Internet casino Information as the Video clips and had a little strike with “Trickle Trickle.” Bassett after that became a member of Shep & the Limelights and sang history for the 1961 strike “Daddy’s House” (number 2 for the pop graphs that May). In 1964, Jubilee employed another band of Five Sharps and documented a new edition of “Stormy Climate” (Jubilee 5458), but that edition isn’t as collectible as the initial version, which includes sold for pretty much 4,000 dollars in public sale because of its limited pressing. Cuffey was identified as having leukemia and passed on in the first ’60s. After departing the Limelites, Bassett became a member of late-period incarnations of both Drifters as well as the Flamingos, and afterwards, shaped the ’70s music group Innovative Funk. The various other Five Sharps — pianist Tommy Duckett, Mickey Owens, and Bobby Ward — still left the music sector until 1975, when four from the making it through group people performed on the Academy of Music in NY.