◇ image via WikipediaClyde McPhatter
Clyde McPhatter is a House and Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Herb Abramson, The Dominoes and Brook Benton. Those roots explain a lot about how Clyde McPhatter arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Chuck Willis, The Drifters, Big Joe Turner, Ivory Joe Hunter and Jimmy Jones, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Smokey Robinson, Marv Johnson, Here's Little Richard, Billy Swan and The Music Machine, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Clyde McPhatter, reaching back through Herb Abramson and forward to Smokey Robinson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Clyde McPhatter connections
Clyde McPhatter grew out of Herb Abramson, The Dominoes and Brook Benton, shares an orbit with Chuck Willis, The Drifters, Big Joe Turner and Ivory Joe Hunter, went on to shape Smokey Robinson, Marv Johnson, Here's Little Richard and Billy Swan. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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