Singers who have totally vanished

[luke]

Claudine "Party Lights" Clark-also a talented musician. I read she did some gospel in the 80's; Yvonne Baker-lives in NY and refuses to discuss her past. Others?

[randy_russi]

Ruby of Ruby and the Romantics
Bettye Swann
Ella Washington
Jean Wells

[blueskies]

Ruby Nash, last I heard, worked at a Goodwill store in Barberton, Ohio. Didn't Claudine Clark end up teaching music?

[randy_russi]

Claudine lived in Atlanta, GA, but I have no idea where she is. Sadly, her label couldn't follow-up the hit and she could've
had a promising career. She actually wrote "Party Lights", which was intended as the "B" side of "Disappointed".
Her lp had too many songs with the "Party" title, but her follow-up singles sounded nothing like the hit.
"Walkin' Through The Cemetary" was one.

I think I remember hearing that Ruby Nash said she had lost her singing voice. I am certain over the years she has been
encouraged to work the circuit. They did have quite a few big hits.

[luke]

I do believe Ruby has appeared on PBS without the Romantics. I imagine Claudine did pretty well with the royalties-that song has had a long life.

[jboy88]

Funny, I was just wondering what happened to Color Me Badd! Does any know[[or care) what happened to them?

[reese]

Funny, I was just wondering what happened to Color Me Badd! Does any know[[or care) what happened to them?

I can't remember any of their names. But the tall one married Tamyra Gray of AMERICAN IDOL fame a few years back. I think he may be working as a writer/producer now.

The lead singer fell on hard times for a bit. He got married, fathered some children, and gained a lot of weight. The last time I saw him he was on a VH1 reality series that put together members of various disbanded groups, and combined them for another shot at fame.

[mellow_q]

I interviewed Ruby back in the summer of '08 for A Touch of Classic Soul.

Much of what has been written about the group is erroneous. i.e. there was never a second set of Romantics. Marv Goldberg cleared up a lot of things when he interviewed her several months before I did [[thank God). She's still living in Akron and is doing fine. All but one of the Romantics is deceased, and the one still living has cancer. She had no interest in getting back out here on the nostalgia circuit without her original singing partners.

Also, I'm happy to say that contrary to published reports, she gets royalties twice a year from "Our Day Will Come" and other songs.

Marc Taylor

[randy_russi]

Dear Marc, that is wonderful to hear! They were an excellent group! My favorite: Young Wings Can Fly [[Higher Than You Know).

[luke]

Marc-didnt she do a PBS show?

[mellow_q]

I think she did mention PBS having to twist her arm to do one of their shows [[I'll have to dig up the tape of the interview to verify), but that was it.

Someone in Vegas did an interview with Bettye Swaan back in 2005. If you enter her name into Wikipedia, there is a link to it.

[marv2]

Great thread Luke!

What ever happened to Rockie Robbins? "He had some nice R&B hits in the late 70's, early 80's
Chuck Cissel [["Cisslin' Hot")
Sheila E.
Apollonia
Brenda Jones [[of the Jones Girls)
Christopher Williams [["New Jack City" and "I'm Dreamin'")
Junior [["Mama Used to Say")
O'Bryan [[early 80's artist)
Whodini
Michael Henderson & Rena Scott [[although I heard Michael is still performing)
Honey Cone [[Edna Wright, Carolyn Willis and the other girl)
Sybil
Loose Ends
Soul II Soul
Glodean White
Chuck E. Booker
Vesta Williams

[Motown_M_1056]

Sheila E still tours and toured with Prince recently.
Apollonia still lives in California.
Vanity has a ministry.
Christopher Williams was touring in some of those urban or gospel plays that tour the black theater circuit.
Chuckii Booker still works as a music/band conductor. He toured with Janet for one tour.
Chuck Cissel was the head of some jazz music association in the west somewhere.
Vesta Williams still tours.
Where is Inez Foxx, Leroy Hutson, Linda Williams and Pennye Ford?

[blueskies]

Great thread Luke!

What ever happened to Rockie Robbins? "He had some nice R&B hits in the late 70's, early 80's
Chuck Cissel [["Cisslin' Hot")
Sheila E.
Apollonia
Brenda Jones [[of the Jones Girls)
Christopher Williams [["New Jack City" and "I'm Dreamin'")
Junior [["Mama Used to Say")
O'Bryan [[early 80's artist)
Whodini
Michael Henderson & Rena Scott [[although I heard Michael is still performing)
Honey Cone [[Edna Wright, Carolyn Willis and the other girl)
Sybil
Loose Ends
Soul II Soul
Glodean White
Chuck E. Booker
Vesta Williams

Edna Wright of Honeycone is still out there kicking it...looking and sounding good with 2 new members. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccT7kKspuwQ
Don't know what Carolyn Willis is up to these days. Shelly, the 'other girl' is in entertainment management arena and does some work with Earth, Wind and Fire, as she's married to one of the members.

[marv2]

Sheila E still tours and toured with Prince recently.
Apollonia still lives in California.
Vanity has a ministry.
Christopher Williams was touring in some of those urban or gospel plays that tour the black theater circuit.
Chuckii Booker still works as a music/band conductor. He toured with Janet for one tour.
Chuck Cissel was the head of some jazz music association in the west somewhere.
Vesta Williams still tours.
Where is Inez Foxx, Leroy Hutson, Linda Williams and Pennye Ford?

Thank you for that follow up information.

[marv2]

Edna Wright of Honeycone is still out there kicking it...looking and sounding good with 2 new members. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccT7kKspuwQ
Don't know what Carolyn Willis is up to these days. Shelly, the 'other girl' is in entertainment management arena and does some work with Earth, Wind and Fire, as she's married to one of the members.


Thank you as well. I could not remember Shellie Clark's name when I posted.

[marv2]

Whatever happened to these singers:

Kenny Loggins
Samantha Sang
Eugene Wilde
Taania Gardner
Gwen McCrae
Leo Sayer
Just about everybody that was in the "USA for Africa" video "We Are the World"! LOL
Terrence Trent D'Arby
Lisa Lisa [[of Cult Jam)
Jean Carn
Deborah & Eloise Laws

[luke]

Jean Carn still performs-I believe she is in England doing a benefit for David Gest and she sang and appeared at Philly Intl PBS show.

[marv2]

Jean Carn still performs-I believe she is in England doing a benefit for David Gest and she sang and appeared at Philly Intl PBS show.

Great! That was my girl. I still have a couple of her albums.

[jillfoster]

Lisa Lisa still tours, she's really big on the gay pride festival circuit, along with Chaka and Jennifer Holiday and Martha Wash.

[daviddesper]

Although I think most of the artists are still around, I absolutely LOVED the quality of the music that the Ichiban label put out in the 80s and 90s, and I hated it when it folded. Trudy Lynn's stuff for them was fantastic, Francine Reed and Sandra Hall were great blueswomen, and even Millie Jackson put out a couple of decent albums for them.

[mellow_q]

I've noticed that many of the "whatever happened to" artists listed above are on Facebook.

Brenda Jones
O'Bryan
Michael Henderson
rena Scott
Sybil
Jane Eugene & Carl McIntosh of Loose Ends
vesta
Pennye Ford
Eugene Wilde
Gwen McCrae
Lisa Lisa
Jean Carn

[luke]

Glodean is doing well in California and into motorcycles!

[brother_love]

Goldean was just interviewed for an up coming reality show about artists who never really made it big.

[arrr&bee]

Wow i'm really glad to hear that ruby nash is doing well,i heard that she had passed,i'm sorry to hear about the romantics what a great group they were!

[randy_russi]

Gwen McRae stil works. I think the guy who manges Marva Whitney over in Europe manages her too. I do believe she still
lives in Florida.

[glencro]

I've always wondered where's Karyn White, Chris Walker, Gabrielle Goodman, The System, Marc Dorsey, Keith John

[simplysupreme]

Cool! Keep us updated, brother love.



Goldean was just interviewed for an up coming reality show about artists who never really made it big.

[luke]

Thanks Marv. brother love-any more info about that show? Isnt Pebbles into the management end of things? We should each take some of these names and research--will check out Karyn W.

[luke]

Per Wikipedia Karyn made album that was shelved in 2006; runs real estate and interior design business in California; left music to start family; was supposed to sing at Soul Train Awards in 2009 in tribute to LA Reid and Babyface but they truned down the tribute and it was cancelled!! Does anyone know about this??

[Doug-Morgan]

Marv2 was asking about Kenny Loggins. He's still touring. Last year he came through here [[Wenatchee, WA) with Jim Messina and put on a terrific show. As an aside, every so often Jim and Poco get together. THAT's a show I'd really like to see....

[uptight]

Watching Prince perform on last night's George Lopez Show, it looks like Sheila E. might be part of Prince's 21 Nights in L.A. this month.

[1wicked]

O'Bryan is a family man...but was talking new music about 18 months ago.
Vesta has/had an AM Drive radio show& still performs.
Pennye Ford was doing dates with Klyymax in 2010
Dera Laws often performs with brother Hubert.
Eloise Laws is quite active around L.A.
Leroy Hutson is BACK ! He has a new [[2010) release available on his website.
Chuckii works as an MD. Seen him The Isleys H know he worked with Janet
Junior is still quite active inthe UK
Sheila E and The E Family Band [[brothers & dad) just dropped a NEW CD. I saw them live recently and they played tracks from it. Killer stuff...just don't expect another" Glamorous Life". Think in terms of more cerebral and more spiritual....

[1wicked]

O'Bryan is a family man...but was talking new music about 18 months ago.
Vesta has/had an AM Drive radio show& still performs.
Pennye Ford was doing dates with Klyymax in 2010
Dera Laws often performs with brother Hubert.
Eloise Laws is quite active around L.A.
Leroy Hutson is BACK ! He has a new [[2010) release available on his website.
Chuckii works as an MD. Seen him The Isleys H know he worked with Janet
Junior is still quite active inthe UK
Sheila E and The E Family Band [[brothers & dad) just dropped a NEW CD. I saw them live recently and they played tracks from it. Killer stuff...just don't expect another" Glamorous Life". Think in terms of more cerebral and more spiritual....

[copley]

Where are :

Maxine Nightingale
SWV
Melissa Manchester
Neneh Cherry
Eagle-Eye Cherry
Lonnie Gordon
Shaggy
En Vogue
Liz Torres

[144man]

I said hello to Neneh Cherry last week. She was visiting her daughter who lives in a flat in the same house as one of my cousins.

[copley]

I said hello to Neneh Cherry last week. She was visiting her daughter who lives in a flat in the same house as one of my cousins.

Cool, if you see her again tell that she's missed by all her fans. :)

[marv2]

Thanks Doug and 1Wicked.

Neneh Cherry, that was my girl! The last I had heard of her musically was "I've Got You Under My Skin" back in early 90's.

How about James Ingram or Belinda Carlise....anyone?

[mellow_q]

SWV and EnVogue still perform regularly.
Maxine Nightingale is on Facebook
James Ingram had a gospel CD out two years ago and still has a website.

[gordy_hunk]

Can't recall who asked:

Leo Sayer
He appeared on the Big Brother here in the UK either last year or the year before. Obnoxious individual! Anyway, he lives in Australia.

Belinda Carlisle
She continues to perform, and I'm going to see her early in July.

Pennye Ford
She has an album reissued on CD very, very shortly.

[blueskies]

Where are :

Maxine Nightingale
SWV
Melissa Manchester
Neneh Cherry
Eagle-Eye Cherry
Lonnie Gordon
Shaggy
En Vogue
Liz Torres

In regards to your question about Melissa Manchester:http://lakesideohio.com/events/main/event/643

[marv2]

One of the singers I wondered about , Junior [["Mama Use to Say") has turned up. Here he is performing on Friday, April 15, 2011 in London. Not to be mean [[I really don't intend to), but age has not been kind to him. He and I are about the same age, but he looks close my Uncle John's age and he is 74 years old!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIwak_u8trA

[rod_rick]

One of the singers I wondered about , Junior [["Mama Use to Say") has turned up. Here he is performing on Friday, April 15, 2011 in London. Not to be mean [[I really don't intend to), but age has not been kind to him. He and I are about the same age, but he looks close my Uncle John's age and he is 74 years old!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIwak_u8trA

But he sounds very good:cool:

[gary_james]

Liz Torres has worked steady since 1969, more recently she was in Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, and was a regular on Gilmore Girls. She's shooting a movie now.

[chidrummer]

Anybody heard from Deborah Cox?

[smark21]

Lisa Lisa still tours, she's really big on the gay pride festival circuit, along with Chaka and Jennifer Holiday and Martha Wash.

Lisa Lisa also has a career going in the Salsa music field.

[smark21]

SWV and EnVogue still perform regularly.
Maxine Nightingale is on Facebook
James Ingram had a gospel CD out two years ago and still has a website.

One of the members of SWV was a contestant on Survivor a couple of years ago.

[smark21]

What ever became of Cherrelle, Pebbles and Karyn White?

[GeeTee(HPK)]

Loose Ends was in Chicago over the weekend. I wish I could have been there. :[[
This coming Saturday, we have a concert featuring the following bands :

Lakeside
Sugarfoot's Ohio Players
Bar-Kays
B.T. Express [[I didn't even know they were still active as a band) :)

[GeeTee(HPK)]

Chidrummer and fans of Deborah Cox

http://www.deborahcox.com/Splash/

[mikey]

Any update on the talented and soulful Terry Collins.Last we heard a couple of years ago on SDF He was destitute in Pittsburgh.

[mellow_q]

Cherrelle still performs regularly. She's on Facebook as Cherrelle Walton and is going to be at the Essence Music Festival this summer.

Pebbles goes by the name Sister Perri and is an evangelist. She has a website www.sisterperri.com She's also on FB, but, unlike Cherrelle, hers is just a fansite that she occassionally pops in on.

[tallone]

Here's some soul for your bowl: where is......
Jeffrey Osborne
Howard Hewitt
Carla Thomas
All of the Soul Survivors of our youth:
Dionne Warwick
Chuck Jackson
Bobby Womack
and so many others that we know and love, AND.....
who have not lost a step and can still deliver the goods?

[heikki]

Hi Tallone!

All the artists that you listed are still performing, and some of them even had or will have CDs released - Jeffrey, Dionne and Bobby, at least.

Best regards
Heikki

[sunshineonacloudyday]

Interesting thread...

Below is a link to a nice story about Lester Chambers of The Chambers Brothers. He was recently homeless until word of his plight got out. Supposedly, even Yoko Ono stepped up to help him. He will be honored at Yohsis in San Francisco later this month [[see link below)

http://www.sweetrelief.org/events/lester-chambers-yoshis

Sweet Relief is a organization that assists musicians who have fallen on hard times. The older artists/musicians who made little to NO money back in the day are especially hit hard.

Another artist I've wondered about is Sugar Pie DeSanto, who a few years back tragically lost her husband when her home burned down in Oakland, CA.

[smark21]

Here's some soul for your bowl: where is......
Jeffrey Osborne
Howard Hewitt
Carla Thomas
All of the Soul Survivors of our youth:
Dionne Warwick
Chuck Jackson
Bobby Womack
and so many others that we know and love, AND.....
who have not lost a step and can still deliver the goods?

Tallone, Dionne Warwick recently did a stint on the reality show Celebrity Apprentice and by the time she was fired from the show, she became for a bit, one of the most hated women on American Television.

[randy_russi]

Whatever happened to CheChe and Peppe [[I think I spelled it correctly) who were on Buddha and had a hit called "I Know,
I Know I'm In Love" and an lp also. They performed on American Bandstand at the time. They were two young kids,
brother and sister, and they named themselves after their two dogs.
Anyone?

[mojoman]

Shirley Ellis
Millie Small
Gayle McCormick [[of Smith)

[nosey]

Accidentally ran into Tina Britt's husband on the street. I don't know if this was just a regional hit but here goes............http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltkzwuDYxmw

[KevLo]

Hi this is Kev-Lo

I've often wondered whatever happened to
Jay Wiggins- Sad Girl
Helena Ferguson- Where is The Party
The Whatnauts
The Continental Four
June Conquest

Do anybody have information on these artists whereabouts

[Ric E.]

Eugene Wilde is doing his thing over in the UK now. He recently finished an album with Cool Million. Don't know the name of it. Sorry, that's all I got.

[marv2]

Eugene Wilde is doing his thing over in the UK now. He recently finished an album with Cool Million. Don't know the name of it. Sorry, that's all I got.

Eugene Wilde was great. Glad to hear he is still singing and well. Thanks

[staceys dad]

what about a group caled D.L.T. WILLIS ???? hope i have the name right,.... think they were on motown...remember seeing a picture of them in the 70s in a magazine called BLUES and SOUL [[UK)...........

[revilot2]

Tina made some great records

[wonder_woman]

Whatever happened to Randy Brown, Solid Solution, Cletus Marland, Ned Doheny & Ron Henderson?

[revilot2]

Whatever happened to Randy Brown, Solid Solution, Cletus Marland, Ned Doheny & Ron Henderson?

Ohhhh great voice.

[duke]

What ever happen to the Lollipops,and their lead singer Arenita Walker?
I was in the chat room and there were inquiries about them i haven't
been able to get in contact with any one since2004.
If anyone has any information about them please contact me.[[dUKE)

[blueskies]

Whatever happened to Three Ounces of Love? Also, what did the Lollipops sing? What label were they on?

[mr_june]

I always wonder what happened to Carl Holmes of Carl Holmes & The Commandos. They had a song called "Hey It's Love" back by "It's Been A Long Time." I could never find any information on him or the group when searching.

[luke]

Shirley ELLis left the biz and I think became a social worker-NYC. Lollipops were on VIP.

[chess1458]

Always wondered what ever happened to Nathaniel Bouknight of the doowop group The Shells.They recorded Baby.Oh Baby.No info on him i can find

[mojoman]

You mean MDLT-Willis....I've been fascinated with them since I learned of them about a year ago. The maddening thing is that there is nothing on the net about them post 1974! Someone claimed to have known them on a Youtube message board and I wrote him. he replied:

"This response is a year late. To answer your questions, they are in their fifties now with living in Los Angeles. All of them have grown children, some have grandchildren. One of the women passed in 2005. That's all I really care to say."

[nosey]

I always wonder what happened to Carl Holmes of Carl Holmes & The Commandos. They had a song called "Hey It's Love" back by "It's Been A Long Time." I could never find any information on him or the group when searching.

Mr. June, I used to follow them around back in the day. The correct name was Carl Holmes and the Commanders who later changed the name to the Sherlock Holmes Experience or something like that. I came across his niece about 10 years ago and she said he had arthritis in his hands and was no longer playing the guitar. At one point he had a girl in his band that looked and sounded just like James Brown! Seriously! Besides the band that McFadden & Whitehead had, Carl Holmes was #2 in my book! [[Those where the days when you had live bands in the clubs!)

[mr_june]

Thanks Nosey. That was interesting indeed. I'll bet you could write a book on the folks you know or known.

[rcopeland1]

New here but have been viewing for ages. Here's my non-profit site for Ruth Copeland [[another one who vanished)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ruth-Copeland/145282905542806

[paladin]

Another artist I've wondered about is Sugar Pie DeSanto, who a few years back tragically lost her husband when her home burned down in Oakland, CA.


She's alive and well and does an occasional performance in her residential city Oakland Califorinia........

Kdub

[nativeNY63]

Hi Tallone!

All the artists that you listed are still performing, and some of them even had or will have CDs released - Jeffrey, Dionne and Bobby, at least.

Best regards
Heikki
Heard Jeffrey O.'s in 2018. He hasn't missed step! Or beat, for that matter!

[nativeNY63]

Eugene Wilde is doing his thing over in the UK now. He recently finished an album with Cool Million. Don't know the name of it. Sorry, that's all I got.
Love Cool Million!

[Jerry Oz]

Didn't see Tevin Campbell listed anywhere on this thread. He'd already vanished when it was first posted in 2011. Also, haven't seen or heard anything from Pauli Carman of Champaign [[or from Champaign, for that matter).

[Ngroove]

Irene Cara.

I know, I recall once while researching her, about a decade or over ago, on her website read she founded a young group called "Hot Caramel" or so, but it is quite evidently plain as day that that was a side project that no one bought.

Which my opinion, quite a shame, because from her rocking "Hot Lunch Jam", adorable "Anyone Can See", bombastic "The Dream", drifting high from "What A Feeling", to over the top "Girlfriends", she shoulda, my opinion, been a Whitney Houston-level star. But instead, to the majority public, two-time hit wonder, then completely disappeared after the mid-late eighties.

Not even an occassional "I'm still around" new album, like Lionel Richie, O'Jays, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Isley Brothers, Temptations, and Chaka Khan does.

[lakeside]

Irene Cara.

I know, I recall once while researching her, about a decade or over ago, on her website read she founded a young group called "Hot Caramel" or so, but it is quite evidently plain as day that that was a side project that no one bought.

Which my opinion, quite a shame, because from her rocking "Hot Lunch Jam", adorable "Anyone Can See", bombastic "The Dream", drifting high from "What A Feeling", to over the top "Girlfriends", she shoulda, my opinion, been a Whitney Houston-level star. But instead, to the majority public, two-time hit wonder, then completely disappeared after the mid-late eighties.

Not even an occassional "I'm still around" new album, like Lionel Richie, O'Jays, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Isley Brothers, Temptations, and Chaka Khan does.
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/irenecarahotcaramel
I have this CD. Pretty good. Too bad this group didn't take off.