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Website. www.mightyojays.com. The O'Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in summer 1958 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert, Walter Lee Williams, William Powell, Bobby Massey, and Bill Isles. [ 3 ][ 4 ] The O'Jays made their first chart appearance with the minor hit "Lonely Drifter" in 1963, but reached their greatest ...
Doo-wop, an influential vocal harmony-based R&B form popular in the 1950s and early '60s, was well-represented in Ohio. Groups from the state include The Students, The Valentinos, The Casinos, The Moonglows (from Cleveland), The Stereos, The Edsels, Mills Brothers, and The Constellations. Ruby & the Romantics were an Akron-based R&B group in ...
The group's last big hit was "Who'd She Coo?" a No. 1 R&B hit in August 1976. It was their only success in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at No. 43 on the UK Singles Chart in July 1976. [ 15 ] Their title track "Ecstasy" from the 1973 album Ecstasy was sampled by Jay-Z on " Brooklyn's Finest ", featuring The Notorious B.I.G. from the 1996 ...
Sun is an R&B, soul, disco, and funk band that was formed in the mid-1970s and recorded prolifically for Capitol Records from 1976 to 1984. The band was founded by Byron Byrd in Dayton, Ohio, in 1976. Additional members included Kym Yancey, Chris Jones (later of Dayton (band)), Gary King, John Wagner, Hollis Melson, and Shawn Sandridge.
Ruby & the Romantics was an Akron, Ohio -based American R&B group in the 1960s, composed of Ruby Nash, George Lee, Ronald Mosely, Leroy Fann and Ed Roberts. The group had several pop and R&B hit records, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963 with their first recording, " Our Day Will Come ". The song, written by Mort Garson and Bob ...
Slave was an American Ohio -based funk band popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Steve Washington, [1] born in New Jersey, attended East Orange High School, and was one of the first users of the "electric trumpet". He and Trombonist Floyd Miller formed the group in Dayton, Ohio, in 1975.
Dayton, Ohio, United States. Genres. Funk. Years active. 1969–present. Labels. Solar, ABC. Lakeside is an American funk band, best known for their 1980 number one R&B hit " Fantastic Voyage ". [ 1 ]
Dazz Band. The Dazz Band is an American R&B / funk band most popular in the early 1980s. Emerging from Cleveland, Ohio, the group's biggest hit songs include "Let It Whip" (1982), "Joystick" (1983), and "Let It All Blow" (1984). The name of the band is a portmanteau of the description "danceable jazz".