◇ image via WikipediaFlorence Ballard
Florence Ballard is a House act. Their sound grew out of Hank Ballard, Sam Cooke, Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach. Those roots explain a lot about how Florence Ballard arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Mary Wilson, The Supremes, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas and Mitty Collier, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and Jennifer Hudson, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 15 connections around Florence Ballard, reaching back through Hank Ballard and forward to Marvin Gaye. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Florence Ballard grew out of Hank Ballard, Sam Cooke, Barbra Streisand and Dionne Warwick, shares an orbit with Mary Wilson, The Supremes, Diana Ross and the Supremes and Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, went on to shape Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and Jennifer Hudson. 15 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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