UNSUNG HEROES OF SOUL

R.B. Greaves is best known for his 1969 smash, "Take a Letter Maria."

In 2004, Betty Harris returned to the music business after a 35-year absence. I helped spearhead her career revival.

Leon Haywood's signature hit, "I Want'a Do Something Freaky to You," has been sampled by a number of rappers, most notably Dr. Dre on his 1992 smash, "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang."

Roy Head was a white soul (and later country) singer best known for 1965's "Treat Her Right."

A native of Nashville, Bobby Hebb is best remembered for the 1966 hit, "Sunny."

Z.Z. Hill “devised a combination of blues and contemporary soul styling to restore the blues to modern black consciousness.” (Texas Historical Society)

In 1964, Joe Hinton took a Willie Nelson song to #1 on the R&B chart.

In 1964, Brenda Holloway became the first non-Detoiter to record a hit single for Motown.

British journalist Tony Cummings once wrote, “Eddie Holman’s voice, an astonishing precision instrument which can leap octaves with the speed of mercury and bend notes into shapes unimagined by lesser singers, has assured its possessor a place in soul history.”

Honey & The Bees were a Philadelphia group whose lack of commercial success had nothing to do with the quality of their music.

The Honey Cone had two #1 Soul hits and a #1 pop song, all in 1971.

Two years before Percy Sledge recorded "When a Man Loves a Woman," Jimmy Hughes made the Billboard top twenty with Southern Soul's first major pop hit.