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Vernon Green Biography, Photos, Pictures

This middle- to late-’50s vocal group on Dootone is best known for the songs “The Letter,” “Edna,” and “Buick ‘59” The group had two distinct sides to its work, the romantic ballads that were sung straight, in almost agonizing purity, and the faster rocking numbers, which were partly tongue-in-cheek

Vesta
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Genre: R & B

R&B singer/songwriter Vesta Williams shot to success with her 1986 hit “Once Bitten, Twice Shy”; Vesta 4 U, issued two years later, launched another smash, “Congratulations

Vesta Williams Biography, Photos, Pictures

Though physically short, Vesta Williams possesses one of Urban Contemporary and R&B’s biggest and brassiest voices Her family moved from Ohio to Los Angeles in the ’60s, as her father was a disc jockey

Vibranaires
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Genre: R & B

Asbury Park, NJ-based R&B vocal group the Vibranaires formed in 1948 According to Marv Goldberg’s profile in the September 1975 issue of Yesterday’s Memories, the group was founded by lead tenor Bobby Thomas, a devout Orioles fan who modeled his vocals after the group’s leader, Sonny Til

Viviane Greene Biography, Photos, Pictures

Singer and pianist Viviane Greene was born Willie Viviane Hoyt in Nacogdoches, TX, on June 19, 1918 She was the eldest of three children Her parents, who were both school teachers, had her begin taking piano lessons at the age of four