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The Ink Spots is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Kansas Joe McCoy, The Golden Gate Quartet, Golden Gate Quartet and The Mills Brothers. Those roots explain a lot about how The Ink Spots arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Al Bowlly, Peggy Lee, Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Cab Calloway and Bobby Darin, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bim Sherman, Suzy Bogguss, I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME, Brenda Russell and The Platters, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around The Ink Spots, reaching back through Kansas Joe McCoy and forward to Bim Sherman. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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The Ink Spots grew out of Kansas Joe McCoy, The Golden Gate Quartet, Golden Gate Quartet and The Mills Brothers, shares an orbit with Al Bowlly, Peggy Lee, Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five and Cab Calloway, went on to shape Bim Sherman, Suzy Bogguss, I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME and Brenda Russell. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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