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Funk
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| Descriptive "tags": |
funk • funk and soul
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| Decades Active: |
1960s
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Biography
Of the several fine male soul duos, the unrelated Erving Wallace and Johnny Simon were one of the earliest to record in the gospel-based southern-soul style. Raised in Atlanta, they attended the Archer High School, and are said to have had their own six-piece band in the late 50s when they were only 14 and 16 years old. Simon handled most of the vocals and doubled on saxophone, while Wallace played guitar and wrote new material. In 1963-4, the Wallace Brothers cut the gospel-styled ‘Faith’/‘I’ll Let Nothing Separate Us’, ‘Precious Words’/‘You’re Mine’, and ‘Lover’s Prayer’/‘Love Me Like I Love You’. Some of these tracks were cut at Rick Hall’s Fame studio in Muscle Shoals where Hall had successfully recorded early black soul material like Arthur Alexander’s ‘You Better Move On’, and Jimmy Hughes’ ‘I’m Qualified’. The Brothers cut a total of nine...
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