◇ image via WikipediaJames & Bobby Purify
James & Bobby Purify is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Otis Redding, James Brown, Rick Hall and Dan Penn. Those roots explain a lot about how James & Bobby Purify arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Donnie Elbert, Eddie Holman, Tyrone Davis, The Persuaders and The Chi-Lites, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Box Tops, Oliver, Ray Charles and The Blind Boys of Alabama, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around James & Bobby Purify, reaching back through Otis Redding and forward to The Box Tops. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
James & Bobby Purify were an R&B singing duo, whose biggest hits were "I'm Your Puppet" in 1966, which reached number six in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and in a re-recorded version number 12 in the UK Singles Chart, and "Let Love Come Between Us" in 1967, which reached number 23 in the US. The original "Bobby Purify" was replaced by a second "Bobby Purify" in the 1970s.
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James & Bobby Purify connections
James & Bobby Purify grew out of Otis Redding, James Brown, Rick Hall and Dan Penn, shares an orbit with Donnie Elbert, Eddie Holman, Tyrone Davis and The Persuaders, went on to shape The Box Tops, Oliver, Ray Charles and The Blind Boys of Alabama. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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