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The Moonglows were an American R&B group in the 1950s. Their song "Sincerely" went to number 1 on the Billboard R&B chart and number 20 on the Billboard Juke Box chart.

They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.

Career

Early years

Fresh from a stint in the U.S. Army, two friends, Harvey Fuqua and Bobby Lester, formed a duo in 1949 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. In 1951, Fuqua moved to Cleveland and formed the Crazy Sounds with the singers Danny Coggins and Prentiss Barnes. In 1955, the band picked the guitarist Billy Johnson to be their fifth member after Wayne Bennett left the group following their engagement at the Apollo Theater.) reached number nine R&B and number 22 pop; the group was billed as Harvey and the Moonglows.

Lester later formed his own Moonglows group. In 1959, he made headlines after he was arrested on a narcotics charge in Beaumont, Texas. He was replaced by Billy McPhatter, son of Clyde McPhatter.

Fuqua performed with Bobby Lester's Moonglows at the 1983 Grammy Awards ceremony, and the group toured as Harvey and the Moonglows until 1986. Bobby Lester, Jr., replaced McPhatter as lead singer of Bobby Lester's Moonglows.

They also performed at Doo Wop 50, where they sang "Sincerely" and "Ten Commandments of Love". The line-up was Harvey Fuqua, Bruce Martin, Gene Kelley, Peter Crawford, and Gary Rodgers.

Billy Johnson died in Los Angeles on April 28, 1987.

Gary Rodgers died on June 25, 2005.

Gene Kelley died in 2008.

Prentiss Barnes and Pete Graves both died in 2006. Fuqua, the last surviving original member of the group, died on July 6, 2010, in Detroit.

Compilations

Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956)
Bunch Of Goodies (1960)
The Best Of Bobby Lester And The Moonglows (1962)
The Flamingos Meet The Moonglows On The Dusty Road Of Hits (1962)
The Moonglows Greatest Hits (1973)
Moonglows (1976)

Singles

{| class="wikitable"

! rowspan="2"| Year

! rowspan="2"| Single (A-side, B-side) Both sides from same album except where indicated

! colspan="2"| Chart positions

! rowspan="2"| Album

! style="width:45px;"|US

! style="width:45px;"|US R&B

|1953

| "Just a Lonely Christmas" b/w "Hey, Santa Claus"

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| rowspan="4"|Non-album tracks

|rowspan="4"|1954

|"Secret Love" b/w "Real Gone Mama"

| style="text-align:center;"| —

|"I Was Wrong" b/w "Ooo Rockin' Daddy"

| style="text-align:center;"| —

|"219 Train" b/w "My Gal"

| style="text-align:center;"| —

|"Sincerely" b/w "Tempting" (Non-album track)

| style="text-align:center;"| 20

| style="text-align:center;"| 1

|"Rock, Rock, Rock" soundtrack

|rowspan="3"| 1955

|"Most Of All" b/w "She's Gone" (Non-album track)

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| style="text-align:center;"| 5

|Bunch of Goodies

|"Starlite" b/w "In Love"

| style="text-align:center;"| —

|rowspan="2"|Non-album tracks

|"Lover, Love Me" b/w "In My Diary" (from Bunch of Goodies)

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| rowspan="4"| 1956

|"We Go Together" b/w "Chickie Um Bah" (Non-album track)

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| style="text-align:center;"| 9

|Bunch of Goodies

|"When I'm With You" /

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| style="text-align:center;"| 15

|Look! It's The Moonglows

|"See Saw"

| style="text-align:center;"| 25

| style="text-align:center;"| 6

|rowspan="2"|"Rock, Rock, Rock" soundtrack

|"Over and Over Again" b/w "I Knew From The Start"

| style="text-align:center;"| —

|rowspan="3"| 1957

|"Don't Say Goodbye" b/w "I'm Afraid The Masquerade Is Over" (Non-album track)

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| style="text-align:center;"| -

|Look! It's The Moonglows

|"Please Send Me Someone to Love" b/w "Mr. Engineer (Bring Her Back To Me)" (Non-album track)

| style="text-align:center;"| 73

| style="text-align:center;"| 5

|Bunch of Goodies

|"The Beating Of My Heart" b/w "Confess It To Your Heart"

| style="text-align:center;"| —

|rowspan="3"|Non-album tracks

|rowspan="3"| 1958

|"Here I Am" b/w "Too Late"

| style="text-align:center;"| —

|"In the Middle of the Night" b/w "Soda Pop"

| style="text-align:center;"| —

|"Ten Commandments of Love" b/w "Mean Old Blues"

| style="text-align:center;"| 22

| style="text-align:center;"| 9

|Look! It's The Moonglows

|1959

|"Mama Loocie" b/w "Unemployment"

| style="text-align:center;"| —

|Non-album tracks

| 1972

|"Sincerely" b/w "I Was Wrong"

| style="text-align:center;"| —

| style="text-align:center;"| 43

|The Return Of The Moonglows

References

External links

Both Sides Now Publications, Chess Album Discography, Part 1
Vocal Group Hall of Fame page on the Moonglows
The Moonglows
Rockabilly.NL page on the Moonglows
Prentiss Barnes page