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He was a singer-songwriter born in New York. In the early 1950s he was a baritone for the group The
Tunetoppers and after being recommended by Jimmy Keyes to help make up a
new group originally called The Keynotes, he would soon appear with his
brother in the band that changed its name to The Chords. Although they never were well known and
had no other huge hits, they went down in history as being as the first
artists with an R&B song to enter the pop charts in the 1950s when they
reached No. 5 on the pop chart with their timeless "Sh-Boom (Life Could Be
a Dream)" in 1954. After the
group going through name changes to the Chordcats and the Sh-Booms they
eventually disbanded in 1960 when he went on to become a contractor who
would repair and work on apartment buildings. He died in 1975 when he would
have been in his forties or fifties.
Big Wheelie & The Hubcaps recordings
Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream) (James
Keyes/Carl Feaster/Claude Feaster/Floyd F. McRae/James Edwards)
Sources:
- http://home.att.net/~uncamarvy/Chords/chords.html
- http://imdb.com/name/nm1509237/
- http://www.musiciansfriend.com/document?doc_id=101397&src=3SOSWXXB
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