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Carl Dobkins Jr. - 43% match to The Bell Notes

The Five Crowns - 41% match to The Bell Notes

The Five Crowns were formed at Wadleigh Junior High School in Harlem, New York, USA, in 1952. The group comprised Wilbur ‘Yunkie’ Paul (lead), brothers James ‘Poppa’ Clark, Claudie ‘Nicky’ Clark and John ‘Sonny Boy’ Clark (all tenor) and Doc Green Jnr. (d. 10 March 1989; bass/baritone). Their distinctive sound (not least because of the pr Read more

Billy Grammer - 39% match to The Bell Notes

William Wayne Grammer, 28 August 1925, Benton, Illinois, USA. Grammer was a coalminer’s son and one of 13 children. His father played the fiddle, and by the time he was in his teens, Grammer was playing guitar, mandolin and banjo at local dances. After a spell in the forces, he started in C&W radio on WRAL in Arlington, Virginia, in 1947, but established his reputat Read more

The Collegians - 34% match to The Bell Notes

Billy & Lillie - 31% match to The Bell Notes

The Quintones - 26% match to The Bell Notes

The Sensational Nightingales - 23% match to The Bell Notes

The Paradons - 21% match to The Bell Notes

Formed at the end of the 50s in Bakersfield, California, USA, the Paradons were a vocal group which scored one US Top 20 hit in 1960 and was never heard from again. The group comprised lead singer West Tyler plus Billy Myers, William Powers and Chuck Weldon, all students at the same high school. They were discovered by Werly Fairburn and Madelon Baker, who were setting up a rec Read more

Billy Ward & The Dominoes - 19% match to The Bell Notes

Merrill Moore - 19% match to The Bell Notes

Merrill Everett Moore, 26 September 1923, on a farm in Algona, Iowa, USA, d. 14 June 2000, San Diego, California, USA. Moore had a natural talent for music and at the age of eight accompanied himself on the piano and made his debut on WHO Des Moines in 1935. He was interested in boogie woogie as performed by Freddie Slack and Albert Ammons. Moore was playing the classics dur Read more

Larry Hall - 18% match to The Bell Notes

30 June 1941, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Larry Hall was responsible for one Top 20 hit, 1960’s ‘Sandy’. He first recorded the Terry Fell composition in 1959 for the tiny Hot 1 label. The rocking number went nowhere until the New York-based Strand label picked it up for distribution and the single went to number 15 in the US. Hall recorded another single, ‘A G Read more

Mickey Baker - 18% match to The Bell Notes

McHouston Baker, 15 October 1925, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. After spells in reform school and a children’s home, Baker moved to New York in 1941. He lived on the fringes of the criminal world but took up the guitar and quickly became a virtuoso, equally adept at jazz and blues styles. From the late 40s, Mickey ‘Guitar’ Baker played on hundreds of recording se Read more

The Charts - 17% match to The Bell Notes

The Videls - 16% match to The Bell Notes

Hank Ballard - 15% match to The Bell Notes

John Kendricks, 18 November 1936, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 2 March 2003, Los Angeles, California, USA. His date of birth is disputed, and varies between 1927 and 1936. Ballard’s truck-driving father died when he was seven years old and he was sent to Bessemer, Alabama, to live with relations. The strict religious and gospel upbringing caused him to run away, and by th Read more