Heaven Only Knows - Checkers '58 King 5156
A short-lived R&B vocal group formed by Irwin "Teddy" Williams in New York during the early 1950s. In addition to Williams, the group consisted of Bill Brown (8), Buddy Brewer, and Charlie White (3), John Carnegie, Little David Baughan, and Perry Heyward. Considering that the Checkers were an offshoot of the Dominoes, one of the most popular R&B groups around, and considering that the Checkers' bass was Bill Brown, lead voice on the Dominoes' "Sixty Minute Man," it's surprising how little is known about this New York group. Compounding the confusion, King records kept releasing songs by other groups under the "Checkers" name. Around September 1951, original member and second tenor Charlie White left the Dominoes. Charlie had been lead on "The Deacon Moves In" (with Little Esther), and can be heard on the bridge of "That's What You're Doing To Me."by Marv Goldberg
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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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