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Bill Deal & The Rhondels were a trumpet-laden white band who specialized in R&B covers. They had three top forty hits, all in 1969.

The Delfonics are best remembered for not one, but two, classics of Philadelphia Soul.

Sugar Pie DeSanto is a cousin of Etta James and an acclaimed singer and composer in her own right.

The Detroit Emeralds had a pair of top forty pop hits in the early '70s. Their biggest was "Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)."

Lee Dorsey was an early New Orleans funkateer who worked with the veteran songwriter-producer, Allen Toussaint.

Initially based in Phoenix, Arizona, Dyke & The Blazers wrote and recorded "Funky Broadway" a year before Wilson Pickett did it.

Ronnie Dyson got his start at age 18, in the 1968 Broadway production of "Hair." Two years later, he began his recording career with his first and biggest hit.

A prolific songwriter and recording artist, Donnie Elbert enjoyed his biggest hit fourteen years after he first made the charts.

The Elgins were a Motown group who experienced limited success in the middle 1960s.

Shirley Ellis had three top ten hits, the biggest of which included the phrase, "Banana fana fo."

Lorraine Ellison recorded her biggest hit at a session meant for Frank Sinatra.

The Emotions were a family act whose biggest hit, "Best of My Love," spent five weeks at #1 in 1977.