I love Motown, but I spent my late teen years and early 20s in Chicago, and Cooley High was one of our rival High Schools in Chicago. My high School, Bowen, was, along with Cooley, and a handful of other South Side, South Chicago, and West Side high schools, had some of the best musicians and singing groups in the nation, during the '50s and early '60s. We should have filled that film with Chicago sounds of The Impressions, Jerry Butler, Billy Butler and The Enchanters, Jan Bradley, The Artistics, Gene Chandler, The Dukays, Billy Stewart, The Chi-Lites, Barbara Green, The Dells, Otis Leavill, Barbara Acklin, The Daylighters, Betty Everett, Dee Clark, Donald and The Delighters, The Opals, The Sheppards, The Fascinations [[I know they were from Detroit-but they recorded for Curtis Mayfield- same with Walter Jackson).
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