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Ben E. King is a Blues and House act. Their catalogue also touches Rhythm and blues. Their sound grew out of Spragga Benz, The Main Ingredient, Bert Berns, John Paul Jones and Brook Benton. Those roots explain a lot about how Ben E. King arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Drifters, Percy Sledge, The Righteous Brothers, Frankie Valli and Bobby Vee, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Derrick Morgan, Average White Band, Javier, Swamp Dogg and Larry Marshall, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 82 connections around Ben E. King, reaching back through Spragga Benz and forward to Derrick Morgan. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Ben E. King connections
Ben E. King grew out of Spragga Benz, The Main Ingredient, Bert Berns and John Paul Jones, shares an orbit with The Drifters, Percy Sledge, The Righteous Brothers and Frankie Valli, went on to shape Derrick Morgan, Average White Band, Javier and Swamp Dogg. 82 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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Sounds and acts that shaped Ben E. King.
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