The Moonglows were an influental American R&B and doo wop group, featuring such legendary singers as Bobby Lester, Harvey Fuqua, Alexander Graves and Prentiss Barnes, along with guitarist Billy Johnson. Originally known as The Crazy Sounds and The Moonlighters, they were renamed by Alan Freed. Their first hit was "Sincerely" (1954), which was followed by a series of R&B hits for Chess Records, including "Most of All" and "Please Send Me Someone to Love". The band's success had dried up by 1961, and didn't score any hits until a reworked version of "Sincerely" hit the charts after reuniting in 1972. Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music popular in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s in America. ... Harvey Fuqua is an African-American soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and record label executive. ... Alan Freed (December 15, 1922 – January 20, 1965) was an American disc-jockey (DJ), who became internationally known for promoting African-American Rhythm and Blues (R&B) music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of Rock and Roll. ... Sincerely is a popular song. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chess Records was an American record label, based in Chicago, Illinois. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...
The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999. The Vocal Group Hall of Fame was organized to honor what they term the Greatest Vocal Groups in the World. The Hall of Fame is headquartered in Sharon, Pennsylvania, United States. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
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In 1958, as Harvey & the Moonglows, the group recorded the hit, "Ten Commandments of Love."
The Moonglows, at least part of whose career found them in league with deejay Alan Freed, heralded the revolution that was to come on the strength of such doo-wop singles as “Sincerely,”; “Most of All,” and “See Saw,” which were all sizable hits on both the pop and RandB charts in the mid-Fifties.
The Moonglows came together in Cleveland in the early Fifties from an alliance between Harvey Fuqua and Bobby Lester, who’d previously sung together in their hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.
March 6, 2000: The Moonglows are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the fifteenth annual induction dinner.
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