The Four Alphabets

Within an era when vocal groups became prevalent more than enough for fresh labels such as for example doo wop to appear necessary, an currently seasoned quartet of gospel vocalists from Richmond, VA, stuck a tack within their holy rolling and reinvented themselves simply because the Four Alphabets. Despite having been among the groups in charge of getting gospel music in to the mainstream industry in the ’30s, with the ’50s the associates from the Norfolk Jubilee Quartet may have been feeling industrial stresses shoving in another path. Or perhaps it had been aesthetic factors that motivated the associates of the group to consider up secular music. At the very least, it would grow to be a case where in fact the lord’s existence was better for the lender account, nevertheless. The Four Alphabets do grab the support of agent and manufacturer Cliff Martinez — no slouch he, having stated responsibility for finding the wacky Slender & Slam aswell as leading doo wop chirpers the Crickets. But nothing at all especially significant resulted from the partnership with Martinez or other things the quartet spelled out artistically. The Four Alphabets shouldn’t be confused using the Alphabetical Four, a gospel group that was mixed up in ’30s and ’40s, coincidentally enough time from the Norfolk Jubilee Quartet’s ideal success.