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The Mad Lads

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Genres: R&B / Soul
Descriptive "tags": soul, stax, reggae, rhythm and blues, funk, oldies Powered by AudioScrobbler
Decades Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
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Biography

From Memphis, Tennessee, USA, the Mad Lads comprised John Gary Williams, Julius Green, William Brown and Robert Phillips. Although not one of the premier Stax Records acts, this quartet enjoyed seven R&B hits between 1965 and 1969. After changing their name from the Emeralds, their first single, ‘The Sidewalk Surf’, flopped, but the group placed three singles in the R&B Top 20 in 1965-66, the best-known being ‘I Want Someone’. Their first hit, ‘Don’t Want To Shop Around’, was curiously anachronistic, owing more to doo-wop than southern soul. Later releases, including the perky ‘Sugar Sugar’, were more typical, but the group was increasingly obscured by its more successful counterparts. In 1966, Williams and Brown were drafted and replaced by Sam Nelson and Quincy Clifton Billops Jnr. A version of the Jimmy Webb standard ‘By The Time I Get To Phoenix’ proved to be the Mad Lads’ last chart entry in...

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