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  2. Checkmates, Ltd. - Wikipedia

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    The Checkmates, Ltd. were an American R&B group from Fort Wayne, Indiana. [1] The group, discovered by Nancy Wilson , was named such because the group included both black and white members, and their various skin tones evoked a chessboard ; [ 1 ] their one major hit was 1969's " Black Pearl ", produced by Phil Spector . [ 1 ]

  3. Love Is All We Have to Give - Wikipedia

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    Love Is All We Have to Give is the first studio album by Checkmates, Ltd., released in 1969, and their second overall album after the 1967 live album Live! at Caesar's Palace. Love Is All We Have to Give reached No. 178 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.

  4. Sonny Charles - Wikipedia

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    He was the lead singer of the Checkmates, Ltd. in the 1960s and 1970s, and it is his vocals that are heard out front on their 1969 Phil Spector-produced hit, "Black Pearl". Charles launched a solo career in the early 1970s, and had a brief reunion with the Checkmates during the 1980s. Thereafter, from the mid- to late 1990s, he toured with ...

  5. Black Pearl (Checkmates, Ltd. song) - Wikipedia

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    "Black Pearl" is a song written by Phil Spector, Toni Wine and Irwin Levine, and performed by Sonny Charles and the Checkmates, Ltd. It was inspired by the 1968 Sidney Poitier film For Love of Ivy about Ivy Moore, a maid who after nine years of service leaves to go to secretarial school. [1]

  6. Live! at Caesar's Palace - Wikipedia

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    Live! at Caesar's Palace is the debut album by Checkmates, Ltd., released in 1967. It reached No. 36 on the U.S. R&B chart. [2] Track listing.

  7. Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 1-7 - AOL

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    Singer Sonny Charles of the Checkmates, Ltd. Is 84. Actor Kenneth Kimmins (“Coach”) is 83. Singer Merald “Bubba” Knight of Gladys Knight and the Pips is 82. TV personality Dr. Jan Pol ...

  8. Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal Brush Up Their ... - AOL

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    The Oscar winner had his Broadway debut in 1988’s Checkmates before going on to star as Troy Maxson in the 2001 revival of August Wilson’s play Fences, for which he received a Tony Award.

  9. Horace Faith - Wikipedia

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    Horace Faith (born Horace Smith) was a Jamaican reggae singer. He is best known for his cover of the Checkmates, Ltd. song, "Black Pearl", which reached number 13 on the UK Singles Chart in 1970.