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Jewel Akens - 100% match to The Olympics

12 September 1940, Houston, Texas, USA. Akens sang in a church choir as a child and moved to Los Angeles in the late 50s. There he worked closely with Eddie Daniels as Eddie And the Four Tunes, before making his recording debut with him as Jewel And Eddie for the local Silver... Read more

Jimmy Clanton - 90% match to The Olympics

2 September 1940, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. Pop vocalist Clanton celebrated his 18th birthday with his co-written debut hit, the R&B ballad "Just A Dream", at number 4 in the US Hot 100. His smooth singing style appealed to the teen market and his subsequent releases were... Read more

Jerry Wallace - 88% match to The Olympics

15 December 1928, Guildford, Missouri, USA. A pop-country singer and guitarist who made his initial recordings for Allied in 1951, but achieved his first chart success when his 1958 Challenge recording of "How The Time Flies" reached number 11 in the US pop charts. After further... Read more

Doris Troy - 68% match to The Olympics

Doris Higginsen, 6 January 1937, the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA, d. 16 February 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The daughter of a Barbadian Pentecostal preacher, Doris Higginsen abandoned her gospel beginnings in favour of a jazz group, the Halos. She recorded as half of... Read more

Jackie Lee - 62% match to The Olympics

Earl Nelson, 8 September 1928, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. Lee had an impressive success in 1965 with the dance hit "The Duck" (number 4 R&B, number 14 pop), but his presence in the R&B scene was far more ubiquitous than was indicated by that one hit. He sang lead on... Read more

Major Lance - 61% match to The Olympics

4 April 1939 (1941 is also cited), Winterville, Mississippi, USA, d. 3 September 1994, Decatur, Georgia, USA. A former amateur boxer and a dancer on the Jim Lounsbury record-hop television show, Lance also sang with the Five Gospel Harmonaires and for a brief period with Otis... Read more

Dee Clark - 58% match to The Olympics

Delecta Clark, 7 November 1938, Blytheville, Arkansas, USA, d. 7 December 1990, Smyma, Georgia, USA. Clark had a wonderfully impassioned tenor voice and enjoyed a spate of rock 'n' roll hits in the late 50s and a lesser body of soul work in the 60s. Clark's entertainment career... Read more

James & Bobby Purify - 56% match to The Olympics

Barbara Acklin - 54% match to The Olympics

28 February 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 27 November 1998, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. A vocalist in the style of Dionne Warwick and Brenda Holloway, Acklin first recorded for Special Agent under the name Barbara Allen. In 1966, following a spell as a backing singer, she worked as... Read more

Johnny Maestro - 53% match to The Olympics

John Mastrangelo, 7 May 1939, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Maestro led two singing groups to the Top 10: the Crests in the 50s and Brooklyn Bridge in the 60s and 70s. With the Crests, whom he joined in 1956, Maestro's voice was heard on the number 2 doo-wop classic "16 Candles" in... Read more