◇ image via WikipediaGene McDaniels
Gene McDaniels is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Burt Bacharach. Those roots explain a lot about how Gene McDaniels arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bobby Vee, The Drifters, Jackie DeShannon, Dionne Warwick and Bobby Vinton, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Floaters, Jennifer Rush, Phyllis Hyman and Earl Sweatshirt, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around Gene McDaniels, reaching back through Burt Bacharach and forward to Gladys Knight & the Pips. 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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Gene McDaniels grew out of Burt Bacharach, shares an orbit with Bobby Vee, The Drifters, Jackie DeShannon and Dionne Warwick, went on to shape Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Floaters, Jennifer Rush and Phyllis Hyman. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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