The Class of 1966 Baby!

[Soul Sister]

Marv2,
Deon, The Capitols, & Barbara were all in Ollie McLaughlin's stable of Artists from his labels.
Yes, The Capitols were fabulous singing & dancing!!!
The Branford was a decent size theater, I remember having to go like around a corner alley to get to the backstage door. There were cats shooting dice in the hallway backstage, talking mess and so on in the heat of the competition, Deon didn't want me exposed to that so he wisked me into the dressingroom quickly, lol, it was all new and interesting to me.
There were two theaters in Newark that put on big stage shows, besides the Branford there was the Adams Theater, this was long before Symphony Hall.
Your right, I was lucky to see many of these shows from N.Y. to D.C. in the mid to late 1960's on the Chitlin` Circuit.

One old friend of over 49+ years visited me last week at my home in Las Vegas and I was a guest at his show at the Orleans Casino, that was Eugene Pitt [[The Jive Five).

Have Mercy! Percy Sledge who just passed this week, I was on a couple shows he was on back in 1966 & 1967, one was at the Howard Theater in D.C. with The Intruders, Howard Tate, Sad Sam, etc..... Another was in N.J. [[forgot the town) with Jackie Wilson, The Five Stairsteps, etc......

S.S.
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