◇ image via WikipediaEugene McDaniels
Eugene McDaniels is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Burt Bacharach. Those roots explain a lot about how Eugene McDaniels arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Weldon Irvine, Shuggie Otis, Baby Huey, Roy Ayers Ubiquity and Eddie Hazel, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Nancy Wilson, Les McCann, Eddie Harris, Roberta Flack and Ray Charles, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Eugene McDaniels, reaching back through Burt Bacharach and forward to Nancy Wilson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Eugene Booker McDaniels was an American singer, producer and songwriter. He had his greatest recording success in the early 1960s, reaching number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with "A Hundred Pounds of Clay" and number five with "Tower of Strength", both hits in 1961. He had continued success as a songwriter with "Compared to What".
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Eugene McDaniels connections
Eugene McDaniels grew out of Burt Bacharach, shares an orbit with Weldon Irvine, Shuggie Otis, Baby Huey and Roy Ayers Ubiquity, went on to shape Nancy Wilson, Les McCann, Eddie Harris and Roberta Flack. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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