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Major Lance



Genres: R&B / Soul
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Biography

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 Leavill and Barbara Tyson in the Floats. His 1959 Mercury Records release, "I Got A Girl", was written and produced by Curtis Mayfield, a high school contemporary, but Lance's career was not truly launched until he signed with OKeh Records three years later. "Delilah" opened his account there, while a further Mayfield song, the stylish "The Monkey Time" in 1963, gave the singer a US Top 10 hit. The partnership between singer and songwriter continued through 1963-64 with a string of US pop chart hits: "Hey Little Girl", "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um", "The Matador" and "Rhythm". Although Lance's range was more limited than that of his associate, the texture and phrasing mirrored that of Mayfield's...

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