R&B / soul group formerly known as the Optimistics (see bio) featured vocalists James Player (lead), Billy Butler, Harold Foster, and Darnell Carter, with the rhythm section of Charles Addison (lead guitar), Stanley Frank (rhythm), Michael Dunston (bass), and Johnny Mason (drums).
Baltimore disc jockey Al Jefferson secured a contract for the group with Janus Records and they released the single “I’m Gonna Make Love Last” b/w “The Harder We Try.”
Frank and Dunston later with MFD & Co., then Ten Karat Gold. Butler established Exact Change Records in 1977. In the ‘00s he continued to produce recordings at his NowChild Studio by groups such as Allan Harris & Perpetual Motion, the ‘New’ Softones, Crosswind, RaShee, NowChild Nation, and others…
1972 Janus 202 I’m Gonna Make Love Last This Time / The Harder We Try
