The 5 Crowns - "You Could Be My Love" (amazing 1953 NYC doowop)
The 5 Crowns - "You Could Be My Love" (1953, Old Town Records - New York City) ... Without a hit record to their credit, The Five Crowns are considered the quintessential New York street corner sound of the early 50s. Many of the members of The Five Crowns went on to join The Drifters. 5 Crowns members included: James "Papa" Clark (Lead), Benjamin Earl Nelson "Ben E. King" (Second Tenor), Charlie Thomas (Tenor), Dock Green (Baritone), Elsbeary Hobbs (Bass)
About Elsbeary Hobbs
The Drifters are an American pop and R&B/soul vocal group. They were originally formed as a backing group for Clyde McPhatter, formerly the lead tenor of Billy Ward and his Dominoes in 1953. The second group of Drifters, formed in 1959 and led by Ben E. King, were originally an up-and-coming group named the Five Crowns. After 1965, members moved between both groups, and many of these formed other groups of Drifters as well. Over the succeeding decades, several different bands, all called the Dri...
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