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Blue
Magic was known as "The Shades of Love".
Atlantic Star was known as "The New Band".
Cameo was known as "The New York City Players".
GQ was known as "The Rhythm Makers".
Al Green is a Guitar Player as well as a Piano Player.
James Brown plays saxophone and piano.
Bootsy Collins plays guitar as well as bass, and once played guitar in the Spinners Band.
Bootsy Collins and Funkadelic were the band on Johnny Taylor's hit "Disco Lady".
The original Bar-Kays were the back up band to Isaac Hays and Otis
Redding, most of those members were killed in the plane crash that killed
Otis Redding.
Peabo Bryson is a Guitar Player as well as a Piano Player.
Marvin Gaye was a Drummer.
Teddy Pendergrass was a drummer.
Lionel Richie was not the original lead singer of The Commodores,
the drummer, Walter Clyde Orange was. Walter sang lead on Brick House.
Fat Larry's Band is AKA The Magic of the Blue, Blue Magic's Band.
Collage was the Whispers Band before breaking out on their own.
Luther Vandross sang background for Roberta Flack.
Ron Banks of the Dramatics has a younger brother who is the lead singer of
the R & B Group The Five Special.
Lenny Williams was the lead singer of Tower of Power.
Major "Love Won't Let me Wait" Harris, is also a Delfonic, and
the first cousin of norman harris of m.f.s.b. fame.
Rose Royce is the band on the Temptations 1990 album.
Jermaine Jackson discovered the R&B group Switch.
Billy Ocean was born Leslie Sebastian Charles.
Donna Summer was born Adrian Donna Gaines.
Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock.
Kashief was born Michael Jones.
Cissy Houston was born Emily Houston.
Chaka Khan was born Yvette Marie Stevens.
Rick James was born James Johnson.
Marvin Pentz Gaye added the "E" to his last name, it was Gay.
Peabo
Bryson and Minnie Ripperton sang a duet called: "Here we go".
Peabo recorded his part after Minnie passed away, she never heard their voices
together, but it was her dream to sing a duet with Peabo.
The lead singer of New Birth took Jeffery Osborne's place in LTD and can be heard on the LTD album "For You".
It
must be in the water: The O'Jays, Slave, Bootsy Collins, Lakeside, Roger & Zapp, The Isley Brothers, The Ohio Players all come from Ohio.
It
must be in the Philly Cheese Steaks: Blue Magic, The Delfonics, The Stylistics, Phyllis Hyman, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes all
come from Pennsylvania.
The
lead singer of The Dazz Band took J.T. Taylor's place in Kool and the
Gang, and can be heard on the Kool and the Gang album "Sweat".
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