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Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Ike & Tina Turner, The Supremes, Jimi Hendrix and The Miracles. Those roots explain a lot about how Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Funk Brothers, Mitty Collier and The Vibrations, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Jacksons, The Jackson 5, Chris Clark, The Temptations and Michael Jackson, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers, reaching back through I Heard It Through the Grapevine and forward to The Jacksons. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers were a Canadian soul band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The group recorded for the Gordy Records division of Motown Records in 1968, where they had a top 30 hit single, "Does Your Mama Know About Me". As a producer and solo artist, Bobby Taylor contributed to several other soul recordings, both inside and outside of Motown. Taylor is most notable for discovering and mentoring the Jackson 5. Tommy Chong was a member of Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers before he became famous as a comedian.
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Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers connections
Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers grew out of I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Ike & Tina Turner, The Supremes and Jimi Hendrix, shares an orbit with The Funk Brothers, Mitty Collier and The Vibrations, went on to shape The Jacksons, The Jackson 5, Chris Clark and The Temptations. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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