Six years later in 1999 they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. In 1993, Little Anthony and the Imperials were awarded the Rhythm and Blues Foundation’s Pioneer Award. While the musical composition was appealing, it was not a financial success. It also reached #3 on Billboard’s R&B Singles chart.Ī decade later, in 1975, Little Anthony and the Imperials released the album Hold On on Avco’s label. In 1965, Little Anthony and the Imperials released another hit, “Hurts So Bad.” This single entered Billboard’s Hot Top 100 chart and peaked at #10 for one week before spending eight additional weeks in the Top 100. Additionally, the song peaked at #8 on Cashbox magazine’s R&B chart. During that same year, “Goin’ Out of My Head” entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #75 and peaked #6. In 1964 they released, “I’m on the Outside Looking In” which was a Billboard Top 20 Pop hit, peaking at # 15. The ensemble briefly separated in 1961 but reunited in 1963. The flip side of the record, “Two Kinds of People,” also became a hit as well. It also reached #2 on Billboard’s R&B Singles chart selling more than one million copies. It entered Billboard’s Top 100 chart and peaked at #4, spent 19 weeks on the Top 100. The group changed its name in 1958 and began producing a string of chart hits, including their first hit, “Tears On My Pillow” (1958) on the End label. The teenage boys were born in the early 1940s and attended Boys’ High School in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Beginning as the Chesters in 1957, Little Anthony and the Imperials are a legendary Doo-Wop rhythm and blues/soul vocal ensemble founded in Brooklyn, New York by tenor Clarence Collins, Countertenor/Falsetto and principal singer Jerome Anthony “Little Anthony” Gourdine, Ernest Wright, bass Glouster “Nate” Rogers, and tenor Tracey Lord.
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