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Rosa “Rambling Rose” Pryor, a native Baltimorean, graduated from Edmondson High School in 1963 and attended Community College of Baltimore […]

The second annual V.G. (Viola Griffin) Productions event to honor Baltimore R&B, funk groups and radio personalities was held on […]

WWIN 1400-AM was where to go for round-the-clock R&B music. In the early 1960s WWIN was the only 24-hour R&B […]

Maurice ‘Hot Rod’ Hulbert, the self-proclaimed “Bald-headed Prince of Radio” worked at WDIA, Memphis in the late 1940s. He came […]

R&B vocal group from West Baltimore. A 1955 lineup featured Cora Boykins, Bobby Covington, Richard Quarles, Earle Beale, and Bill […]

R&B group formed by merger of vocal groups the Spinners with Little Ray & the Playboys. Both groups had competed […]

Soul vocal group from East Baltimore featuring the great harmonies of James Gill, Jr. (first tenor), Leroy Priester aka ‘Fish’ […]

R&B vocalist from West Baltimore. His first band in the ‘60s was a teen band called Little Les & the […]

R&B / soul group from East Baltimore formed by members of the Del-Capris. Members included vocalists Billy Butler, Harold Foster, […]

R&B / soul group formerly known as the Optimistics (see bio) featured vocalists James Player (lead), Billy Butler, Harold Foster, […]