Ink Spots
"An all-Negro show, headed by the rejuvenated Ink Spots, has everything it takes to be a top entertainment piece. The Spots, making their periodic visit here, were never better. Ella Fitzgerald takes second billing to the Ink Spots, but more than holds up her end with I've got Rhythm, Do Nothing' Till You Hear From Me ....Ink Spots come on with Shoo-Shoo Baby ["Cow-Cow Boogie"?] followed by Lovely Way to Spend An Evening and Don't Sweetheart Me ... Encore with My Heart Tells Me and beg off to thunderous hand with the inevitable If I Didn't Care" (Billboard Magazine, 2/6/44, courtesy More Than Words Can Say: The Ink Spots and Their Music, Goldberg, 1998).
Were the Ink Spots really the "heavyweight champions of quartet singing"? If you believe soul singer Jerry Butler -- founding member of the Impressions who was quoted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Web site -- they were. But beyond the praise and adulation they have received and will continue to receive, there is little doubt that the Ink Spots were pathfinders: they paved the way for many groups to find success, both from the "doo-wop" and from the rhythm & blues movements. They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, the Grammy Hall of fame in 1987, the Apollo Hall of Fame, and in 1997 they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.
They got their start in Indianapolis in the 1920s, having been inspired by early American Jazz and vaudeville acts; their original members included Deek Watson, Charles...
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