A member of the next Neville Generation, bassist Ivan Neville went with Keith Richards on his first solo tour The son of Aaron Neville, he has also played in Bonnie Raitt’s band and was on The Rolling Stones’ Dirty Work LP
Bespectacled and velvet-smooth in the vocal department, pianist Ivory Joe Hunter appeared too much mild-mannered to be a rock & roller But when the rebellious music first crashed the American consciousness in the mid-’50s, there was Ivory Joe, deftly delivering his blues ballad “Since I Met You Baby” right alongside the wildest pioneers of the era
Several of Motown’s biggest hits — “Ask the Lonely,” “Dancing in the Street” “I’ll Keep Holding,” and “Can You Jerk Like Me” — were co-written by George Ivy Hunter a
Singer Ivy Smith was in a popular vaudeville and recording duo with pianist Cow Cow Davenport in the late 1920s The collaboration began in 1927, when Smith became Davenport’s second singer, following Dora Carr