Years back Chubby or Butch wrote their memoirs [[of course with help) but I could never get
a copy of the book for some reason and I want to try again now. I really liked them as The
Turnpikes and I remember someone telling me that Bernie Worrell played keyboards for
them on some of their early releases. Their family roots actually date back to Cape Verde,
an island off the coast of West Africa, colonized by Spain. As Tavares I wasn't exactly crazy
about their later lean into disco but tracks like Remember...really knocked me out. The first
song you mentioned, mr june, Strangers In Dark Corners is classic soul at it's finest. I have
it on cassette but I hope to fix that limitation soon...I always felt that if they had a bigger
stronger band attached to them they could have reached the level of popularity of acts
like New Birth. They certainly had the voices thing locked down...