HARLEM: Week of 1/30/06
"Clyde McPhatter's high tenor takes off like a guided missile. It soars higher and higher until it hits its target...dead center and explodes...blowin' you mind"
-Matt The Cat
CLYDE McPHATTER
Clyde McPhatter should be remembered as one of the most influential of the early '50s R&B singers. His sweet, angelic tenor was first put to gospel singing, but in 1950, it turned to secular music when Clyde joined Billy Ward & The Dominoes. After scoring numerous hits with The Dominoes, McPhatter left to form his OWN group, The Drifters. Depression, alcoholism and the changing sound of R&B would eventually ruin his career and his life, but this week HARLEM remembers one of the true great, CLYDE McPHATTER.
HARLEM airs on the 50s on 5:
Monday 1/30 @ 1pm over NYC
Tuesday 1/31 @ 9pm PST - midnight EST
Friday 2/3 @ 6pm EST
Sunday 2/5 @ 11am over Boston
-Matt The Cat
CLYDE McPHATTERClyde McPhatter should be remembered as one of the most influential of the early '50s R&B singers. His sweet, angelic tenor was first put to gospel singing, but in 1950, it turned to secular music when Clyde joined Billy Ward & The Dominoes. After scoring numerous hits with The Dominoes, McPhatter left to form his OWN group, The Drifters. Depression, alcoholism and the changing sound of R&B would eventually ruin his career and his life, but this week HARLEM remembers one of the true great, CLYDE McPHATTER.
HARLEM airs on the 50s on 5:
Monday 1/30 @ 1pm over NYC
Tuesday 1/31 @ 9pm PST - midnight EST
Friday 2/3 @ 6pm EST
Sunday 2/5 @ 11am over Boston
posted by Matt The Cat at 9:25 PM
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