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The group was formed by (Silas) Roy Crain, launching his first quartet who sang in a jubilee style, in 1926 in Trinity, Texas, United States. [1] In the early 1930s, after Crain moved to Houston, he joined an existing group on the condition that it change its name to The Soul Stirrers: this name yields from the description of one of Roy Crain's earlier quartets as "soul-stirring".
Rebert H. Harris (March 23, 1916 – September 3, 2000) was an American gospel artist and lead singer of the Soul Stirrers. [1] [2] He had a pure tenor three-octave voice that he utilized for moans and slurs and leaps into falsetto.
Roy Del Ruth: May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel: Ham and Eggs at the Front: Fifi: Roy Del Ruth: Tom Wilson, Louise Fazenda: 1928: Beware of Married Men: Juanita Sheldon: Archie Mayo: Irene Rich, Clyde Cook: Lost film, only 4th reel survives A Girl in Every Port: Girl in China (uncredited) Howard Hawks: Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise Brooks ...
David Eli Ruffin (born Davis Eli Ruffin; [1] January 18, 1941 – June 1, 1991) was an American soul singer most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of the Temptations (1964–1968) during the group's "Classic Five" period as it was later known.
David Melvin English (October 12, 1942 – February 23, 1995) better known by the stage name Melvin Franklin or his nickname "Blue", was an American bass singer.Franklin was best known for his role as a founding member of Motown singing group The Temptations from 1960 to 1995.
David Soul, an actor who rocketed to fame in the 1970s as the blond half of the TV crime-fighting duo “Starsky and Hutch” and went on to become a successful pop singer, has died.
Sam Cooke was born Samuel Cook in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1931 (he added the "e" to his last name in 1957 to signify a new start to his life). [11] [12] He was the fifth of eight children of Rev. Charles Cook, a Baptist minister in the Church of Christ (Holiness), and the former Annie Mae Carroll.
Royston Campbell Crane (November 22, 1901 – July 7, 1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer. He pioneered the adventure comic strip , establishing the conventions and artistic approach of that genre.