Nappy Brown ~ Similar Artists

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The Impalas - 79% match to Nappy Brown

With sweet-voiced lead singer Joe "Speedo" Frazier (5 September 1943, New York City, New York, USA), this New York doo-wop group had an overnight success with their first record, "(Sorry) I Ran All The Way Home". From the Carnesie section of Brooklyn, the rest of the Impalas... Read more

The Elegants - 72% match to Nappy Brown

Formed in the mid-50s in Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA, the Elegants were a white doo-wop group. They achieved a US number 1 single, "Little Star", in 1958, only to disappear from the charts permanently thereafter. The group was comprised of lead vocalist Vito... Read more

Jimmy Jones - 69% match to Nappy Brown

2 June 1937, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Some sources state 1942 as his year of birth. Jones, who had spent a long apprenticeship singing in R&B doo-wop groups, became a rock 'n' roll star in the early 60s singing "Handy Man" and other hits with a dramatic and piercingly high... Read more

The Dell Vikings - 62% match to Nappy Brown

Robert & Johnny - 60% match to Nappy Brown

This R&B duo came from the Bronx, New York, USA. Robert Carr and Johnny Mitchell grew up in the same neighbourhood and attended high school together, in a centre of doo-wop culture. Thus, upon their signing to Old Town Records in 1956, their duets captured the sound of the... Read more

Ferlin Husky - 53% match to Nappy Brown

3 December 1925, on a farm near Flat River, Missouri, USA. Husky learned to play guitar as a child and during World War II served in the US Merchant Navy. His mother wanted him to be a preacher and his father a farmer, but after discharge, he found radio work as an announcer and... Read more