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R&B / Soul
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| Descriptive "tags": |
soul • blues • oldies • 50s • jazz • retro • male vocalists • rock • pop • rhythm and blues • dead • doo-wop • 27 • smooth voices
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| Decades Active: |
1950s
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1960s
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1970s
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1980s
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1990s
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2000s
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| Links online: |
Wikipedia
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Biography
15 December 1932, San Antonio, Texas, USA, d. 6 February 1960, Fairhope, Arkansas, USA. Raised in Los Angeles, Belvin became a part of the city’s flourishing R&B scene while in his teens. As a member of vocal quartet Three Dots And A Dash he was featured on ‘All The Wine Is Gone’, a 1950 single by jazz saxophonist Big Jay McNeely. Belvin also recorded with fellow songwriter Marvin Phillips as Jesse & Marvin, achieving a Top 5 R&B hit in 1953 with ‘Dream Girl’. His career was then interrupted by a spell in the US Army. ‘Earth Angel’, a collaboration with two fellow conscripts, was recorded successfully by the Penguins. After leaving the armed forces, Belvin signed a new contract with Modern Records and enjoyed a major R&B hit in his own right in 1956 with ‘Goodnight My Love (Pleasant Dreams)’, a haunting, romantic ballad adopted by disc jockey Alan Freed as the closing theme to his...
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