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Tavares - 62% match to Yvonne Elliman

This US group was formed in 1964 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. The line-up comprised five brothers, Ralph (10 December 1948), Antone ‘Chubby’, Feliciano ‘Butch’, Arthur ‘Pooch’ and Perry Lee ‘Tiny’ Tavares. Originally known as Chubby And The Turnpikes, the group assumed its family’s surname in 1969. Although they lacked a di Read more

Captain & Tennille - 55% match to Yvonne Elliman

Female vocalist Toni Tennille (8 May 1940, Montgomery, Alabama, USA) co-wrote the 1972 rock musical Mother Earth. When it was staged in Los Angeles, the house band included keyboards player Daryl Dragon (b. 27 August 1942, Los Angeles, California, USA), the son of conductor Carmen Dragon. The duo teamed up romantically and professionally, and toured as part of the Beach Boys Read more

Peaches & Herb - 54% match to Yvonne Elliman

Herb Fame (Herbert Feemster, 1 October 1942, Washington, DC, USA) and Francine Barker (b. Francine Edna Hurd Barker, 28 April 1947, Washington, DC, USA, d. 13 August 2005, Maryland, USA). These two Washington, DC, USA-based singers were signed separately to the same record label, Date, and met on a promotional tour. Producer Dave Kapralik put the couple together, and their e Read more

Rita Coolidge - 52% match to Yvonne Elliman

1 May 1944, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, from mixed white and Cherokee Indian parentage. Coolidge’s father was a Baptist minister and she first sang radio jingles in Memphis with her sister Priscilla. Coolidge recorded briefly for local label Pepper before moving to Los Angeles in the mid-60s. There she became a highly regarded session singer, working with Eric Clapton, S Read more

Alicia Bridges - 48% match to Yvonne Elliman

Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This vocalist caught the mood of the disco craze as it sashayed towards its Saturday Night Fever zenith in the late 70s. Although her debut album reached Billboard’s Top 40, she is remembered chiefly for the single ‘I Live The Night Life (Disco Round)’, which raced to number 5 in the USA and, when issued on Polydor, also made a strong im Read more

Andrea True Connection - 44% match to Yvonne Elliman

Helen Reddy - 43% match to Yvonne Elliman

25 October 1941, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, A big-voiced interpreter of rock ballads, with a reputation as a high-profile feminist and campaigner on social issues, Reddy came from a showbusiness family. She was a child performer and had already starred in her own television show before winning a trip to New York in an Australian talent contest in 1966. There, an appeara Read more

England Dan & John Ford Coley - 42% match to Yvonne Elliman

Murray Head - 42% match to Yvonne Elliman

5 March 1946, London, England. Murray Head’s long career began in 1965 with a series of folk rock recordings for Columbia Records, including versions of ‘He Was A Friend Of Mine’ and ‘The Bells Of Rhymney’. Briefly signed to the Immediate Records label, for which he completed ‘She Was Perfection’, Head later found fame playing Judas in the Read more

Andy Gibb - 41% match to Yvonne Elliman

5 March 1958, Manchester, England, d. 10 March 1988, Oxford, England. Following the international success of his three elder brothers in the Bee Gees, Andy appeared as a star in his own right in 1977. Emerging at the beginning of the disco boom, he scored three consecutive US number 1 hits with his first three chart entries. ‘I Just Want To Be Your Everything’,
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Samantha Sang - 41% match to Yvonne Elliman

The Trammps - 41% match to Yvonne Elliman

Melissa Manchester - 39% match to Yvonne Elliman

15 February 1951, the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. A former staff writer at Chappell Music and back-up singer for Bette Midler, Manchester launched her own career in 1973 with Home To Myself. Her intimate style showed a debt to contemporary New York singer-songwriters, but later releases, including her self-titled third album, were more direct. This collection, produ Read more

Thelma Houston - 39% match to Yvonne Elliman

7 May 1946, Leland, Mississippi, USA. Houston left her home town of Leland, Mississippi, in the late 60s to tour with the gospel group the Art Reynolds Singers. Her impassioned vocal style and innate mastery of phrasing, most notably on the 1966 single ‘Glory Glory Hallelujah’, brought her to the attention of the prodigal songwriter/arranger Jimmy Webb in 1969. He Read more

A Taste Of Honey - 38% match to Yvonne Elliman