The Soul Survivors were an R&B group of brothers from Philadelphia. Richie and Charlie Ingui were known for their 1967 hit single, “Expressway to Your Heart”; which was the first hit by Philadelphia soul record producers and songwriters, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff.
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” A Decade of Soul is definitely passion driven, when backbeatrnb saw them in Port Washington NY 3 years ago, we knew they were gonner be Soul Stars. They are a #1 class act when it comes to their Soul Tribute to the R&B world. “A Decade of Soul”makes it very difficult for the audience to stay in their seat. They will take you on a musical journey from the Drifters to The God Father of Soul Mr James Brown.
Vocalist Prentiss McNeil & Bruce Wayne are leading this group in a timeless effort to bring back R&B Soul With their old school stage presence and vocals. From “Under the Boardwalk” to “Soulman”, those 2 dynamic Soul singers take you on a journey where one can romantize and fantize. So check out A”Decade of Soul at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill.
“A DECADE OF SOUL” IS AS GOOD AS MOTOWN THE MUSICAL
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The legendary Peabo Bryson sings with such “strong meaning and conviction”. When he sings you can feel the love! This is what Kevin from backbeatrnb said after attending Mr. Bryson’s concert at the Staller Center for The Arts, Stony Brook, NY on March 5, 2016. The two-time Grammy winner, sings the music of romance, offering a timeless mix of pop, soul and of course, R&B . The acclaimed rhythm & blues soul singer-songwriter has twenty albums to his credit. His duet with Roberta Flack, “Tonight I Celebrate My Love,” was a huge hit in the ‘80s and earned Mr Bryson the tag “King of Balladeers.” Many know him for his work with Disney’s “Beauty and The Beast” with Celine Dion as well as “A Whole New World” with Regina Belle for “Aladdin” .
Backbeatrnb wants to applaud Mr. Bryson for his R&B contributions to the world and say Thank You for allowing R&B Lovers to never lose touch with that good old school sound!
CELEBRATE LOVE WITH YOUR “BOO’ TONIGHT R&B LADIES & GENTS.
Jeffrey Osborne, a multi-talented performer since 1970 started his music career with a band called Love Men Ltd., who would later become known as L.T.D. The band recorded hit singles such as “Every Time I Turn Around”,” Back in Love Again”, “Concentrate on You,” “Love Ballad” and “Holding On (When Love Is Gone)”. At first, Osborne was a drummer, sharing lead vocal duties with his brother Billy, but by 1978 he became the group’s primary lead vocalist. He and Billy both left L.T.D. in the late 1980’s to start solo careers. His solo success includes five gold and platinum albums.
Osborne released his self-titled debut album in 1982, it featured two hit singles, “On the Wings of Love” and “I Really Don’t Need No Light”, peaking at #29 & #39 on the pop chart. Followed up the next year by Stay with Me Tonight, his first gold album (later reaching platinum album status), which spawned two more hits, “Don’t You Get So Mad” (#25) and the title track (#30). “Stay with Me Tonight” (April 1984, #18) and “On the Wings of Love” (June 1984, #11) reached the UK Singles Chart.
In 1985, he wrote the lyrics to the Whitney Houston hit “All at Once” (music by Michael Masser). He appeared on USA for Africa’s fundraising single, “We Are the World” in 1985. Osborne had two more gold albums, Don’t Stop and Emotional, the latter of which had his highest charting solo pop hit, “You Should Be Mine”, which peaked at #13 in 1986.
The following year, Osborne had the highest-charting hit of his career duetting with Dionne Warwick on “Love Power”, which reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also topped the Adult Contemporary singles chart. This was a turning point in his pop success, as his albums and singles began charting lower and lower on the pop charts. Osborne’s 1988 single “She’s on the Left” would be his final Hot 100 entry, as well as his only #1 R&B hit. After scoring two more R&B hits in the early 90s, “Only Human” and “If My Brother’s in Trouble”, Osborne would be absent from the charts for the remainder of the decade.
In the new millennium, he returned with a series of albums that, while far from the success he enjoyed in the 1980s, returned him to R&B radio, scoring modest chart singles such as “Rest of Our Lives” (#75, 2003) and his cover of Barbara Mason’s classic “Yes, I’m Ready. Jeffrey Osborne puts a lot of Soul, Passion and warmth in every song he sings, his smooth, silky voice is just what R&B music is all about.
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The Main Ingredient singing one of their classic hits “Just Don’t Want to be Lonely”.
The Main Ingredient is an R&B group best known for their 1972 hit “Everybody Plays the Fool.The group formed in Harlem New York in 1964 and was called the Poets, composed of lead singer Donald McPherson, Luther Simmons, Jr., and Panama-born Tony Silvester. They made their first recordings for Leiber & Stoller’s Red Bird label, but soon changed their name to the Insiders and signed with RCA. After a couple of singles, they changed their name once again in 1968, this time permanently to the Main Ingredient, taking the name from a Coke bottle.
The Main Ingredient teamed up with record producer Bert DeCoteaux. Under his direction, the Main Ingredient reached the R&B Top 30 for the first time in 1970 with “You’ve Been My Inspiration”. A cover of The Impressions’ “I’m So Proud” broke the Top 20, and “Spinning Around (I Must Be Falling in Love)” went into the Top 10. They scored again with the McPherson-penned black power anthem “Black Seeds Keep on Growing,” but tragedy struck in 1971. Don McPherson, who had suddenly taken ill with leukemia, died unexpectedly. Stunned,Tony Silvester and Luther Simmons regrouped with new lead singer Cuba Gooding, Sr., who had served as a backing vocalist on some of their previous recordings and had filled in on tour during McPherson’s brief illness.
The Gooding era began auspiciously enough with the million-selling smash “Everybody Plays the Fool”, which hit number two R&B and number three pop to become the group’s biggest hit. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in September 1972. The accompanying album, Bitter Sweet, became their first hit to top the Top 10 on the R&B album chart; In 1973’s Afrodisiac, featured several songs written or co-written by Stevie Wonder, although it did not produce any huge successes on the singles charts. They peaked at number eight on the R&B chart in 1974 with “Just Don’t Want to Be Lonely”, which sold over a million copies, and also reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. The track peaked at number twenty-seven in the UK Singles Chart in July 1974, although it was their only chart presence in the UK. In 1975, the group recorded several songs co-written by Leon Ware, including the R&B Top Ten “Rolling Down a Mountainside”. By this time, Tony Silvester was harboring other ambitions; he released a solo album called Magic Touch that year, and left the group to form a production team with DeCoteaux.The two of them scored a Top 10 Pop and R&B smash with their production of Ben E.King’s hit “Supernatural Thing” in 1975.
The current line-up of the group consists of Cuba Gooding Sr., Jerome Jackson, and Stanley Alston. The Main Ingredient continues to tour and stay active and backbeatrnb will continue to follow this soulful group to keep the spirit of good old R&B alive.
Odyssey is a singing group from New York, best known for their 1977 hit “Native New Yorker,” and a series of other mainly dance and soul hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Now based in the UK, the band is led and fronted by Steven Collazo and continues to perform and record.
Odyssey began as the Connecticut-born “Lopez Sisters” featuring Steven’s mother, Lillian (Lillian Lopez Collazo Jackson; 16 November 1935 – 4 September 2012),[4] Louise Lopez (February 22, 1933 – January 28, 2015), and Carmen Lopez (born July 12, 1934), the latter having left the group before Odyssey, as the act would come to be known after her departure, was conceived.
“Native New Yorker” reached no. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100, no. 5 in the UK Singles Chart and was later covered by Frankie Valli. A string of albums and singles followed and the group managed another R&B chart hit, “Inside Out”, written by Jesse Rae, produced by Jimmy Douglass and featuring music performed by session musicians. It peaked on the US charts at no. 12 and in the UK went to no. 3 in 1982.[5] Reynolds, for unknown reasons, left after the first album and was replaced by Fayetteville, North Carolina native William “Bill” McEachern, who remained with the group throughout the remainder of its RCA Records output. During that time, Brooklyn-born Steven Collazo joined the group as keyboardist, vocalist and musical director.
“After leaving RCA, Odyssey, composed of lead vocalist Lillian Lopez, Al Jackson and Steven Collazo, continued touring, performing, and making television appearances throughout the United Kingdom, Europe and the Middle East. Lillian Lopez and Jackson married in 2000, and retired from the music industry in 2003. Lillian died on September 4, 2012 of cancer”.
To Late To Turn Back Now
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose formed in 1970 and gained popularity in the early 1970s.They were composed of siblings Carter Cornelius, Eddie Cornelius, and Rose Cornelius, who were joined by sister Billie Jo Cornelius in 1972. Cleveland E. Barrett an original member of the group, was (a childhood friend),killed in a car accident before their short lived success.
Rose Cornelius had already appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in June 1967 and had been performing in Las Vegas and worldwide, touring in 1970 with a group called the Gospel Jazz Singers. She went home to Florida at her mother’s request to help form the group. Rose wrote most of the background vocals while Eddie wrote most of the songs.
The group hit the pop chart in 1971 with the single “Treat Her Like a Lady” (U.S. R&B Top 20, Billboard Hot 100 #3). The record was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on 2 August 1971.[1][2]
The act succeeded again in 1972 with “Too Late to Turn Back Now” (U.S. R&B #5, Hot 100 #2); both songs were written by Eddie Cornelius.[1] This also sold over one million copies with a gold disc awarded in August 1972.[1]
While the group failed to find any further success on the scale of their first two singles, two releases, “Don’t Ever Be Lonely” and “I’m Never Gonna Be Alone Anymore” reached the Billboard Top 40. Their final charting single was “Since I Found My Baby” in 1974, from their third and last album.
Unfortunately, the group broke up in 1976 when Carter Cornelius joined a black Hebrew sect in Miami and adopted the name Prince Gideon Israel. He wrote, recorded, and mixed the sect’s music and videos for the next 15 years. He died of a heart attack on November 7, 1991. Eddie Cornelius became a born-again Christian and later an ordained pastor who continued to sing, produce, and write music.[3]
Rose Cornelius is working and living in Port Saint Lucie, Florida, and performs with many groups.
References[edit]
1. Jump up to: a b c Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. pp. 291 and 310. ISBN 0-214-20512-2. Whitburn, Joel (2011). Record Research Online Database. “Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose” Billboard Chart Discography. Retrieved March 17, 2011.
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