V-Eights

Asbury Recreation area, NJ-based R&B vocal group the V-Eights were founded in 1958. Regarding to Marv Goldberg’s profile in the Sept 1975 problem of Yesterday’s Recollections, initial tenor Roosevelt McDuffie previously documented using the Vibranaires (aka the Vibes), who have scored a major local strike with 1954’s “Doll Encounter” before armed forces duties forced these to component methods. Tenors Leroy Dark brown, Tony Maples, and Delmar “Kirby” Goggins along with bass Frank Hosendove finished the initial V-Eights lineup, who in 1959 agreed upon to one of the most label to record their debut one, “Pretty Young lady.” When Dark brown lowered out of view in 1960, McDuffie enlisted Vibranaires creator Bobby Thomas as his substitute, with year’s end the V-Eights resurfaced on supervisor Gervais Tilman’s Vibro label with “My Heart” — Goggins was another to look, with tenor Henry “Stoney” Jackson acquiring his place for 1961’s “ALL YOU Said.” Following the follow-up, “Let’s Have a Possibility,” Jackson as well exited, and despite adding tenor Bobby Youthful, the V-Eights divide in 1962. McDuffie, Thomas, and Youthful later reunited within a reconstituted Vibranaires, and in 1966 the trio joined up with Sonny Til in his immortal doo wop ensemble the Orioles.