Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference Percy Mayfield (August 12, 1920 – August 11, 1984) was an American songwriter famous for the songs “Hit the Road Jack” and “Please Send Me Someone to Love“, as well as a successful rhythm and blues artist known for his […]
Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference Unlike some acts billing themselves as “brothers”, The Chambers Brothers really were brothers. Growing up in a sharecropping family in one of the most impoverished parts of Mississippi, the four siblings first started to sing at the Mount Calvary Baptist […]
Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference The Poni-Tails were an American girl group from Lyndhurst, Ohio. Formed in a suburb of Cleveland, the Poni-Tails – Toni Cistone, Karen Topinka and Patti McCabe – started singing at Brush High School, which they all attended. Tom Ilius, a […]
Biography AKA Genre(s) Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference The Paradons are know best for the beautiful “Diamonds and Pearls,” which reached number 18 on the pop chart in 1960, nine rungs higher than it registered on the R&B chart. The quartet, comprised of friends William Powers and Bill […]
Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference The Shells — led by Nate Bouknight (aka “Little Nat”) — scored with a Top 30 hit with “Baby Oh Baby,” charting for the tiny Johnson label in 1957. The group — Bouknight, Randy “Shade Alston (tenor), Bobby Nurse (tenor), Danny Small […]
Biography AKA Genre(s) Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference In looking back over the history of rock & roll, the sad fact remains that very few of its original practitioners stayed true to its original big beat vision. Some made a handful of brilliant sides before broader horizons — television or […]
Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference The DeJohn Sisters were an American vocal duo, Julie and Dux DeJohn (born DiGiovanni). They were born in Chester, Pennsylvania, which had been the hometown of an earlier vocal group, The Four Aces. They were the daughters of a dry cleaner and worked in […]
Biography AKA Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference The Hollywood Flames were an American R&B vocal group in the 1950s, best known for their hit, “Buzz Buzz Buzz“. They formed as The Flames in 1949, in Watts, Los Angeles, at a talent show where members of various […]
Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference The Cadets are an American doo wop group, formed in Los Angles in the late 40’s. The group began as a gospel group, the Santa Monica Soul Seekers, in the late 1940s. The members were Lloyd McCraw, Willie Davis, Austin “Ted” Taylor, Aaron Collins, Glendon Kingsby, and Will “Dub” Jones. […]
Biography Genre(s) Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels The Teen Queens were an American musical group from the 1950s, most remembered for their hit single “Eddie My Love“, which reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #3 on the R&B Best Sellers charts in March 1956. The group consisted of sisters Betty and Rosie Collins, at 16 and 14 respectively, sisters […]
Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference The Bonnie Sisters were an American pop group from New York. The three members were all nurses at Bellevue Hospital. After hearing The DeJohn Sisters on the radio, they began singing together at work, calling themselves The Belle Aimes initially. After performing on Arthur Godfrey‘s […]
Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Also Member of Reference The Turbans were an African American doo-wop group, who formed in Philadelphia in 1953. The original members were: Al Banks (lead tenor), Matthew Platt (second tenor), Charlie Williams (baritone), and Andrew “Chet” Jones (bass). They came from Downtown Philadelphia (around Bainbridge and South Street). […]
Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference The El Dorados were an American doo-wop group, who achieved their greatest success with the song “At My Front Door”, a no. 1 hit on the R&B chart in 1955. The group formed in Chicago in 1952, originally as “Pirkle Lee and the Five […]
Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Also Member of Reference The Penguins were an American doo-wop group of the 1950s and early 1960s, best remembered for their only Top 40 hit, “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)“, which was one of the first rhythm and blues hits to cross […]
Biography Genre(s) Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference The Lancers consisted of Jerry Meacham, Dick Burr, Bob Porter and Corky Lindgren. They were a popular singing group of the early to mid-fifties and hit the charts with “Sweet Mama Tree Top tall” in 1953. The Lancers version of Open Up Your Heart did manage […]