Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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They send out waves of joy that jolt an audience right out of the glooms and start it stamping floors and pounding fists on chairs. They have no need of costumes or choreography. Soloists leap forward as if by pure impulse. The rest let themselves be caught up by the...
Their name is the Voices of East Harlem, and they sing a peculiar mixture of blues, gospel and pop music. In the blase world of popular music, however, few acts can equal the infectious thrill of all those young gospel-shouting vocal cords going at it with a single purpose...
After a scant half-dozen appearances, mainly at Manhattan's Electric Circus and Fillmore East, plus a single date on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Voices are poised on the edge of what promises to be a spectacular success.
From the beginning, though, the youngsters had a few things going for them. One was a massive ex-gospel singer named Bernice Cole, who was called in by Chuck Griffin of the East Harlem Federation Youth Association. "When they asked me to start a choir," recalls Miss Cole, "I said...
Jerry Brandt, the group's present manager, was equally unimpressed when he first saw them. "They came in wearing orange blazers," he remembers, "and didn't get me very excited. But the next morning I couldn't get their sound out of my head. So I had...