The Four Fellows

The 4 Fellows will be remembered for “Soldier Young man,” a definitive mid-’50s hit. Jim McGowan (business lead), Dave Jones (tenor), Teddy Williams (baritone), and Larry Banking institutions (bass) originally created in Brooklyn, NY, phoning themselves the Schemers, that they transformed to the Four Fellows after getting an early Television appearance. In 1954, they documented a unitary for Derby Information, but it didn’t gain an target audience. They soon authorized with Phil Rose’s recently formed Glory Information and recorded a small number of singles, including “Grow Along BESIDE ME,” which presented a business lead vocal by Betty McLaurin. In the past due springtime of 1955, the Four Fellows documented “Soldier Young man,” which gained them an area on the expenses of Tommy Smalls’ Dr. Jive’s R&B Revue in the Apollo Theatre in June of this year, carrying out alongside Harvey Fuqua’s Moonglows, Gene & Eunice, the Nutmegs, Bo Diddley, and Friend Johnson & His Orchestra with Ella Johnson and Nolan Lewis. In the mean time, “Soldier Boy” was included in many popular performers, including Sunny Gale and Edyie Gorme. The group effectively toured the South and Midwest and finished the entire year by executing on the big Xmas Revue on the Brooklyn Paramount Movie theater. They were much less successful using their produces, nevertheless, and didn’t strike again (after many tries) until August of 1956, when up-tempo “I Sit down in My Home window” premiered. Extra singles faltered. In 1957, the Four Fellows added Toni Banking institutions (previously of Three Men and a Doll) being a business lead vocalist and documented a final one for Glory, nonetheless it didn’t generate enough product sales or airplay to merit keeping the music group on the roster and aside from the occasional back-up singing work — including dealing with folk-blues musician Josh Light — the Four Fellows profession came to a finish prior to the dawn from the ’60s.