Soul families: Groups with family members in them

[tsull1]

Either brothers, brothers and sisters, cousins, fathers and mothers, etc. Please add to my list:

Isley Brothers
Sister Sledge
Sylvers
Jets
Jacksons
Emotions
Atlantic Starr
Calloway
Midnight Star
Switch
DeBarge
Gladys Knight and the Pips
Earth, Wind and Fire
Whispers
Staple Singers
Brothers Johnson
Dazz Band
Five Stairsteps
Zapp
Intruders
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Heatwave
Boyz II Men

* Temptations? [[Weren't Eddie and Paul cousins?)

I've missed a ton ... please keep adding.

[marv2]

Either brothers, brothers and sisters, cousins, fathers and mothers, etc. Please add to my list:

Isley Brothers
Sister Sledge
Sylvers
Jets
Jacksons
Emotions
Atlantic Starr
Calloway
Midnight Star
Switch
DeBarge
Gladys Knight and the Pips
Earth, Wind and Fire
Whispers
Staple Singers
Brothers Johnson
Dazz Band
Five Stairsteps
Zapp
Intruders
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Heatwave
Boyz II Men

* Temptations? [[Weren't Eddie and Paul cousins?)

I've missed a ton ... please keep adding.

You named darn near all of them. You didn't give us a chance! LOL!

[P-Shark: The Revenge]

Jones Girls
Chambers Bros
The Meters
Neville Bros
New Birth
5 Stairsteps
Gap Band
ADC Band/Black Nasty
The Boys
Full Force

[marv2]

Ok. No Paul Williams and Eddie Kendricks were not related but Melvin Franklin and Richard Street were cousins. I grew up with some of their cousins.

[westgrandboulevard]

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - [[60's to present day) Lois is Martha's sister, and now joined by another sister, Delphine

The Velvelettes - Cal and her sister Millie ; Bertha and her cousin Norma

[marv2]

The Velvelettes
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas [[with Lois)
Brass Construction
Tavares

[marv2]

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - [[60's to present day) Lois is Martha's sister, and now joined by another sister, Delphine

The Velvelettes - Cal and her sister Millie ; Bertha and her cousin Norma

See, you type faster than me Westgrandboulevard LOL!

[marv2]

Love Unlimited [[Glodean and her sister)

[tsull1]

How did I miss Tavares and the Gap Band ... doh!!

[juicefree20]

Chi-Town's own The Five Minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIjUVCGMi2c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHRIu...eature=related

Out of Cleveland, The Ponderosa Twins + 1 [[2 sets of twins plus one more) Had a REAL BIG one here in N.Y. back in 1971 produced by Bobby Massey [[formerlyof The OJays) called...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdi0GNLwKgM

Also these were pretty nice...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_ZW...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSfi7...eature=related

[Jerry Oz]

Starpoint
The McCrarys
Juicy
Force MDs
Jodeci

[juicefree20]

Obviously...

Sly & the Family Stone
Bootsy & Catfish in the James Brown Band

[juicefree20]

Benet
The Flamingos
The Lost Generation [[The Sly, Slick & The Wicked)

[blueskies]

The Pointer Sisters....I trust they're considered 'soul' enough?

[juicefree20]

Before I proceed further, are we speaking strictly about Soul groups, or are we including earlier R&B groups as well?

[Jerry Oz]

Cameo
The Blues Brothers [[j/k)
The Time
LeVert
Guy
Skyy
Ike & Tina [[really more rock, I guess...)
Tony! Toni! Tone!

[marv2]

Odessey [[Liz and Louise Lopez)

[marv2]

The Braxtons

[P-Shark: The Revenge]

Obviously...

Sly & the Family Stone
Bootsy & Catfish in the James Brown Band

I'm embarrassed. Was thinking about S&TFS but completely Freddy & Rose
And Of course I was thinking of Bootsy's Rubber Band and forgot about Catfish. Wow I'm really having a senior moment. wow!
Okay let me add Santana [[Pete & Coke Escovedo)
Pete & Sheila Escovedo
Maceo & All The King's Men [[brother Melvin)

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The Clark Sisters [[Gospel yes, but definitely SOUL!)

[marv2]

The Detroit Emeralds

[tsull1]

Great responses, I knew SDF would come through! Pointer Sisters -- duh, on me! I was trying to add more female groups and missed there.

Wondering about some large funk bands, L.T.D., Slave, ConFunkShun? Any relatives there?

[juicefree20]

P-Shark,

No foul there. It's happened to me more than I'd care to admit.

T-Sull,

Yes, Jeffrey & Billy Osborne. Unfortunately, they had a bit of a rift between the direction in which the group would go, a situation which had a bit to do with Jeffrey going solo.

[juicefree20]

Man!

Don't know how I missed The Detroit Emeralds!!!

[timmyfunk]

Obviously...

Sly & the Family Stone
Bootsy & Catfish in the James Brown Band

As well as Bootsy's Rubber Band.

[P-Shark: The Revenge]

Brecker Bros

[marv2]

High Inergy [[Vernessa & Barbara Mitchell)
Switch [[Bobby & Tommy DeBarge)
Apollo [[Cliff Liles & Kerry Gordy)

[juicefree20]

Timmy

I'm just not funky as I used to be, which can be either a good thing or a bad thing depending upon the context used. In this case, it's a bad thing. I hereby revoke my Funk pass & will listen to a few bars of "Billy, Don't Be A Hero"!

Anyone have some Old Spice or Brut by Faberge to spare

[juicefree20]

Reaching back to my DJ days, I submit...

The Beck Family - "I Can't Shake The Feeling''
The T-Connection
T.S. Monk [[Siblings T.S. III & Barbara ''Boo Boo'' Monk) R.I.P. Barbara & Yvonne Fletcher!
The Duncan Sisters
The Floaters

Then there are...

The Jackson Sisters
M-D-L-T- Willis
The Ridgeways
Body
The Waters

[juicefree20]

Speaking of The Floaters, how many of you remember this one...

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

[marv2]

Timmy

I'm just not funky as I used to be, which can be either a good thing or a bad thing depending upon the context used. In this case, it's a bad thing. I hereby revoke my Funk pass & will listen to a few bars of "Billy, Don't Be A Hero"!

Anyone have some Old Spice or Brut by Faberge to spare

Juice, please don't ask for Vitalis or Brill Cream next! LOL!

[splanky]

surprised nobody mentioned the other Wilson Bros of Mandrill....

[nosey]

Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose. Loved their sound.

[Hotspurman]

More Motown family acts:

The Allens
Black Russian
The Boone Family
Joanne & The Triangles
Lewis Sisters
PAL
Tony & Carolyn [[husband and wife)

[theboyfromxtown]

The Springfields - [[Dusty and Tom)
Smith Connection [[Michael, Danny, Louis

[cozmic]

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[cozmic]

...Splendor

[cozmic]

The "O" bruvas: drummer Derek Organ [[3rd from left) and guitarist Tommy Organ [[far right).
Both routined studio/tour-musicians. Tommy "O" is currently active in the house band of the George Lopez Show.

[cozmic]

[cozmic]

[cozmic]

The Modern Jazz Quartet worked also together with James "Mtume" Heath in the early '80s

[cozmic]

Later solo projects by siblings/aliases Dee Dee Wilde, Eugene Wilde [[also in the band Today, Tomorrow, Forever)

[blueskies]

The Body sisters

[blueskies]

GiGi and the Charmaines

[cozmic]

[cozmic]

[cozmic]

Wondering about some large funk bands, L.T.D., Slave, ConFunkShun? Any relatives there?

Not directly. Only that Slave's Steve Washington was nephew of Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrook from the Ohio Players.

[blueskies]

The Ronettes

[cozmic]

Brother to brother. An impressive team, although in another form than a group or band.