(Vocal group, 1950–65) The Dominoes were an R&B/pop vocal group led by Billy Ward, a child prodigy and army choir director who attracted singers like Clyde McPhatter and Jackie Wilson to the group. The Dominoes’ biggest R&B hit was the raunchy ‘60-Minute Man’. The group’s version of ‘Stardust’ reached No. 12 on the pop charts in 1957. Ward’s strict-disciplinarian ...
‘Pretty Thing’, ‘Diddy Wah Diddy’, ‘Who Do You Love ?’ and ‘Mona’, reflect the energy and drive of early rock’n’roll. Styles & Forms | Roots of Rock Personalities | The Dominoes | Roots of Rock ...
from gospel singer to R&B and pop star, and his emotional singing set the stage for vocalists like Jackie Wilson and Smokey Robinson. McPhatter started out with Billy Ward’s Dominoes, and left in 1953 to form and lead The Drifters. His Drifters hits included ‘Money Honey’ and ‘Honey Love’. During a successful solo career, he recorded his biggest ...
(Singer-songwriter 1934–84) Detroit-born Jackie Wilson, an ex-amateur boxer, sang with gospel groups before replacing Clyde McPhatter in Billy Ward and The Dominoes in 1953. His first solo success came with 1957’s UK and US hit, Reet Petite’, co-written by Berry Gordy Jr., who went on to found Motown Records. His first US Top 40 hit was 1958’s ...
within a very short time, and many of the teens who were buying the records were also inspired to form their own a cappella groups. As singles by The Dominoes and Hank Ballard & The Midnighters made the transition from the R&B charts to the mainstream pop market, and as acts such as The Jewels, The Cadillacs, ...
between the cracks due to a fateful lack of luck and talent. Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, whose line-up formerly included Ringo Starr on drums; Kingsize Taylor & The Dominoes, who claimed to have been Liverpool’s first beat group; Derry Wilkie & The Seniors, who were the first Merseysiders to play a residency in the German rock’n’roll stomping ...
name in early R&B music is Clyde McPhatter. Originally a gospel singer with the Mount Lebanon Singers in New York, Clyde switched over to R&B when he joined The Dominoes in 1950. They signed to Syd Nathan’s King label and recorded ‘Sixty Minute Man’ (1951), the biggest R&B hit of the year and, according to some, the earliest ...
to record what was arguably the first rock’n’roll record, ‘Rocket 88’, in 1951. The crucial early breakthrough to the white mainstream was made by black vocal groups like The Dominoes and The Orioles, whose harmony-coated hits ‘Sixty Minute Man’ (1951) and ‘Crying In The Chapel’ (1953) appealed to a white audience. Interestingly, Bill Haley covered some of the ...
Eric Clapton Collaboration As in the previous year, The Who began 1973 in virtual hibernation. Pete Townshend had agreed to help Eric Clapton go through some Derek And The Dominoes tapes a year earlier, but Clapton was engulfed in a heroin addiction at the time, and Townshend now started to take a leading role in helping his friend ...
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