THE MOONGLOWS
From Kentucky to Cleveland, Chicago to Detroit, the road taken by Harvey Fuqua is closely associated with the rise of Cleveland-to-New York disc jockey Alan Freed by way of Fuqua's and Bobby Lester's vocal group The Moonglows, one of rock's classic acts. Childhood friends in Louisville, the two started as a musical duo in the late 1940s, Harvey (nephew of The Ink Spots' singer-guitarist Charlie Fuqua) playing piano while the two sang separately and in harmony (they did a lot of Ink Spots songs...wonder why!). Saxophonist Ed Wiley (he'd just had a hit, "Cry, Cry Baby") hired them for a brief southern tour in 1950, after which the duo returned to pounding the streets in Kentucky Derby Town. A devastating fire caused the death of Harvey's mother and his ... MORE ››