UNSUNG HEROES OF SOUL #Chicago Soul

Ruby Andrews makes her home in Chicago and is best known for 1967's "Casanova (Your Playing Days Are Over)."

Born in St. Louis, Fontella Bass recorded in Chicago and is best remembered for the 1965 smash, "Rescue Me."

Alvin Cash & The Crawlers were a Chicago-based family act whose biggest hit was an instrumental.

In 1964, Mitty Collier transformed a James Cleveland gospel classic into an R&B smash.

The Esquires were a family group from Milwaukee best known for 1967's "Get On Up."

The Five Stairsteps made the Billboard Hot 100 fifteen times but only once cracked the top forty.

For twenty years, Walter Jackson's mellifluous baritone graced the Chicago soul scene.

In the early 1960s, the Radiants made a series of recordings for Chess that helped expedite the transition from doo-wop to soul.

Despite an extensive catalog of high-quality soul, Jackie Ross never transcended "one-hit wonder" status.