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Maxine Nightingale

Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues

Maxine Nightingale is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Jimmy Ruffin and The Delfonics. Those roots explain a lot about how Maxine Nightingale arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Captain & Tennille, The Foundations, The Spinners, Leo Sayer and Yvonne Elliman, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Lines, Vines and Trying Times, Yung Gravy, Junior, Jamiroquai and The Gap Band, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around Maxine Nightingale, reaching back through Jimmy Ruffin and forward to Lines, Vines and Trying Times. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Maxine NightingaleJimmy RuffinThe DelfonicsLines, Vines and Try…Yung GravyJuniorJamiroquaiThe Gap BandTerence Trent D'ArbyDes'reeBoy GeorgeCaptain & TennilleThe FoundationsThe SpinnersLeo SayerYvonne EllimanAnita WardAmii StewartRupert Holmes

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Maxine Nightingale connections

Maxine Nightingale grew out of Jimmy Ruffin and The Delfonics, shares an orbit with Captain & Tennille, The Foundations, The Spinners and Leo Sayer, went on to shape Lines, Vines and Trying Times, Yung Gravy, Junior and Jamiroquai. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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