Featuring future soul star Eddie Floyd in the background -- later joined by Wilson Pickett who led "I Found A Love" -- this was a big part of the soundtrack of our "coming of age years".
Carolyn, this powerful groove always seems to take me down to Thomas and Hall streets in my memory, but all accounts I've found say it was not a white group. While Eddie Floyd (Black) of "Knock On Wood" fame and his co-worker Bob Manardo (white) started The Falcons with members Eddie Floyd, Bob Manardo, Arnett Robinson, Tom Shetler, and Willie Schofield as a mixed group of crooners in 1956, long before they made this hit in 1959 they had become all-black. Joe Stubbs, little brother of the 4 Tops' Levi Stubbs, sings lead on "You're So Fine" and Wilson Pickett leads "I Found A Love" which went to hit-city in 1962.
NOTHING IN THIS WORLD AS SWEET AS YOUR KISS...SO FINE, SO FINE. I REMEMBER LISTENING TO THIS ON THE RADIO OVER AT THE CASA LOBE IN SOUTH DALLAS ON OAKLAND (MALCOLM X). IT WAS STRANGE FINDING OUT IT WAS A WHITE GROUP, NOT A BLACK GROUP
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