bass guitarist , composer , and occasional film director , best known as a member of The Jackson 5 .
Presented by television personality Reggie Yates , the programme broadcast the auditions of hopefuls as they perform in front of the show 's judges : Mark Summers , contemporary R & B singermusic.group_membership, and Jackson 's elder brother and former Jackson 5 band member Jermaine .
Marlon David Jackson ( born March 12 , 1957 ) is an American entertainer , singermusic.group_membershipdancer and member of The Jackson 5 .
Anthology is a compilation of Motown hits by pop and R & B singermusic.group_membershipJackson with additional hits by The Jackson 5 and rare , unreleased material from 1973 .
Lorenz again served as Carey 's backing singermusic.group_membershipher March 16 , 1992 appearance on the television show `` MTV Unplugged '' , where he and Carey sang a cover of the Jackson 5 's `` I 'll Be There '' - a duet the two reprised at Michael Jackson 's memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles , California on July 7 , 2009 .
Michael Jackson ( August 29 , 1958 – June 25 , 2009 ) was an American singermusic.group_membershipspent over forty two years in the public eye , first as a child star with the Jackson 5 , and later as a solo artist , during which time he went through various image changes .
The performers most inspired by and derivative of Lymon and the Teenagers ' style are The Jackson 5 and their lead singermusic.group_membershipfuture superstar Michael Jackson .
The special featured performances by The Jackson 5 , and also included Jackson 5 lead singermusic.group_membershipJackson 's solo debut .
This single would later be covered two years later by The Jackson 5 as the b-side to their single `` Hallelujah Day '' , with almost no changes to the lyrics , lead singermusic.group_membershipJackson was only fourteen at the time he recorded the song for the `` Skywriter '' album .
They have two children , Leon , who is the double bassist for The Stray Cats under the stage name of `` Lee Rocker '' , and Rosanne , an alternative-country singermusic.group_membership.
In 1953 , after learning that singermusic.group_membershipMcPhatter had been fired from Billy Ward and His Dominoes and was forming his own group ( The Drifters ) , Ahmet Ertegun tracked McPhatter down and signed the new group immediately .
Stevens has said that Clyde the camel was named after rhythm-and-blues singermusic.group_membershipMcPhatter , formerly the lead singer of The Drifters .
Bill Pinkney , brothers Andrew and Gerhart Thrasher , and bass singermusic.group_membershipFerbie were approached by Clyde McPhatter , who had just quit as the lead tenor of the popular R & B group , Billy Ward & the Dominoes .
`` Please Stay '' ( also known as `` ( Do n't Go ) Please Stay '' ) is an early hit of The Drifters featuring the new lead singermusic.group_membershipLewis , who replaced Ben E. King .
Grant Kitchings was a singermusic.group_membershipwas a member of The Ravens then in the 1970s a member of The Drifters .
Charlie Thomas ( born 7 April 1937 in Lynchburg , Virginia ) is an American rhythm and blues singermusic.group_membershipknown for his work with The Drifters .
Johnny Moore ( December 14 , 1934 – December 30 , 1998 ) was an American rhythm and blues singermusic.group_membershipthe Drifters .
Rudy Lewis ( born Charles Rudolph Harrell ; August 23 , 1936 – May 20 , 1964 ) was an American rhythm and blues singermusic.group_membershipfor his work with the Drifters .
After the departure of original Impressions lead singermusic.group_membershipButler to a successful solo career , and the other original members , brothers Arthur and Richard Brooks , the remaining original members , Curtis Mayfield , Sam Gooden and Fred Cash , choose not to replace them .
Curtom Records was a record label started by producer , composer and lead singermusic.group_membershipMayfield , of The Impressions group , along with Impressions ' associate , Eddie Thomas , the band 's manager and Jerry Butler 's former driver ) in 1968 .
In 1971 , three months out of college , Hutson was asked to replace Curtis Mayfield as the lead singermusic.group_membershipThe Impressions .
`` It 's All Right '' is a 1963 song recorded by The Impressions and written by the group 's lead singermusic.group_membershipCurtis Mayfield .
Love Oh Love is the debut solo album by Leroy Hutson , who had been the lead singermusic.group_membershipThe Impressions after he replaced former lead singer Curtis Mayfield , who left the group to embark on his own solo recording career in 1970 .
The Impressions 's song `` We 're a Winner '' , written by their lead singermusic.group_membershipCurtis Mayfield , became a virtual anthem of the black pride movement , as did James Brown 's `` Say It Loud - I 'm Black and I 'm Proud '' , and Sam Cooke 's and Al Green 's interpretation of `` A Change is Gon na Come '' .
He was once married to Michelle Phillips , most notable as a singermusic.group_membershipThe Mamas & the Papas and mother of Chynna Phillips .
Hopper made the drug-addled jungle epic `` The Last Movie '' ( in which Fonda co-starred along with singermusic.group_membershipPhillips of The Mamas & the Papas ) .
Initially Tanya Roberts from `` Charlie 's Angels '' and `` Sheena : Queen of the Jungle '' was chosen but it did not work out so she was replaced by Michelle Phillips , a singermusic.group_membershipthe vocal group The Mamas & the Papas .
Born in Alexandria , Virginia , she is the daughter of John Phillips , singermusic.group_membershipThe Mamas & the Papas , and his first wife , Susan Adams .
Cass Elliot ( born Ellen Naomi Cohen ; September 19 , 1941 – July 29 , 1974 ) , also known as Mama Cass , was an American singermusic.group_membershipmember of The Mamas & the Papas .
Dream a Little Dream is the debut solo album by singermusic.group_membershipElliot immediately after the breakup of The Mamas & the Papas , though she was still billed as `` Mama Cass '' for this release .
During one of his absences , former The Mamas & the Papas singermusic.group_membershipElliot and a few members of her tour group stayed at the flat while she performed solo at the London Palladium , headlining with her torch songs and `` Do n't Call Me Mama Anymore '' .
The band 's 1967 self-titled LP was released through Canterbury Records and besides featuring the hit single `` Yellow Balloon '' , also included two songs co-written by former The Mamas & the Papas singermusic.group_membershipGibson .
Most of black metal 's `` first wave '' bands only used Satanism for shock value ; one of the few exceptions is Mercyful Fate singermusic.group_membershipDiamond , who follows LaVeyan Satanism and whom Michael Moynihan calls `` one of the only performers of the '80s Satanic Metal who was more than just a poseur using a devilish image for shock value '' .
One of the few exceptions was Mercyful Fate singermusic.group_membershipChurch of Satan member King Diamond , whom Michael Moynihan calls `` one of the only performers of the '80s Satanic metal who was more than just a poseur using a devilish image for shock value '' .
The albums were influenced by Black Sabbath while the falsetto shrieks were influenced by Mercyful Fate singermusic.group_membershipDiamond .
The band Fate formed when former Mercyful Fate guitarist Hank Shermann ( René Krolmark ) , Maxim Reality singermusic.group_membership`` Lox '' Limbo ( Jens Meinert ) , bass / keyboard player Pete Steiner ( Peter Steincke ) and drummer Bob Lance ( Bjarne Holm ) met .
Frankie Valli ( born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio ; May 3 , 1934 ) is an American popular singermusic.group_membershipknown as the frontman of The Four Seasons beginning in 1960 .
Frankie Valli , lead singermusic.group_membershipThe Four Seasons , suffered from it in the 1970s , forcing him to `` sing from memory '' in the latter part of the decade ( surgery restored most of his hearing by 1980 ) .
The song features drummer Gerry Polci on lead vocals , with the usual lead Frankie Valli singing the bridge sections and backing vocals , and bass player Don Ciccone ( former lead singermusic.group_membershipThe Critters ) singing the falsetto part ( `` And I felt a rush like a rolling bolt of thunder / Spinning my head around and taking my body under '' ) .
In 1960 , after a failed audition at a Union Township , Union County , New Jersey , bowling establishment , songwriter/keyboardist Gaudio shook hands with lead singermusic.group_membershipand formed the Four Seasons Partnership , and Gaudio , Valli , Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi became the Four Seasons .
Nicholas `` Nick Massi '' Macioci ( September 19 , 1927 – December 24 , 2000 ) was an American bass singermusic.group_membershipbass guitarist for the Four Seasons .
During the groups ' early years , such notable future stars as Jackie Wilson , Little Willie John , Freddie Pride , and Levi Stubbs ( later to go on to worldwide fame as lead singermusic.group_membershipMotown Records group The Four Tops ) were members .
He gave up boxing for music , first working at Lee 's Sensation club as a solo singermusic.group_membershipthen forming a group called the Falcons ( not to be confused with The Falcons Wilson Pickett was part of ) , that included cousin Levi Stubbs , who later went on to lead the Four Tops ( two more of Wilson 's cousins , Hubert Johnson and Levi 's brother Joe , later became members of The Contours ) .
Later members included the returning Sylvester Potts , and Dennis Edwards.With the return of Sylvester Potts , Lead singermusic.group_membershipthen departed the group for good , to be replaced by Joseph Stubbs ( brother of The Four Tops ' lead singer Levi Stubbs , and the reconstituted group would continue to record with Motown through 1967 * .
Levi Stubbs ( June 6 , 1936 – October 17 , 2008 ) was an American baritone singermusic.group_membershipbest known as the lead vocalist of the R & B group the Four Tops , a band known for a variety of Motown hit records and other songs created in the 1960s and 1970s .
McAskill assumed leadership of the band and at the suggestion of manager Peter Raphael they changed the band 's name to Levi Smith 's Clefs ( a reference to Four Tops ' lead singermusic.group_membershipStubbs ) .
The label released records by a number of artists , including Joe Stubbs ( brother of Four Tops lead singermusic.group_membershipStubbs ) , Eddie Floyd , The Falcons and The Ohio Untouchables ( later renamed the Ohio Players ) .
The song 's title refers to The Four Tops lead singermusic.group_membershipStubbs , whose music remains a source of comfort to the protagonist through years of abandonment , injury , and domestic violence .
In 1964 she joined The Platters , replacing singermusic.group_membershipTaylor , but left after a year and an album ( The New Soul of the Platters ) .