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Major Lance
Major Lance (April 4, 1939),〔 1941〔Soul music A-Z 1995 p. 185〕 or 1942〔The golden age of American rock 'n roll: Volume 3; 2002 p. 556〕〔Rhythm and Blues, Rap, and Hip-hop p. 161〕 – September 3, 1994〔 was an American R&B singer. After a number of US hits in the 1960s, including "The Monkey Time" and "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um", he became an iconic figure in Britain in the 1970s among followers of Northern soul. Although he stopped making records in 1982, Major Lance continued to perform at concerts and on tours until his death in 1994.
==Early life==
There has been some dispute over Major Lance's birth year; some sources claim he was born in 1941〔〔〔On This Day in Music History, p. 96〕 or in 1942 (as Lance claimed).〔〔 However, 1939 appears to be the correct year of birth. In the 1940 U.S. Census, there is a "Mager" Lance listed in Washington County, Mississippi as the one-year-old son of Lucendy Lance, a widow. Lance's gravestone also states he was born in 1939.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Major Lance's Gravestone )〕 'Major' was his given forename, not a nickname or stage name.〔(Biography at The Northern Soul Nightshift ), home.iprimus.com.au; accessed April 7, 2015.〕
Lance, who was one of 12 children,〔''Billboard'' August 10, 1963, p. 16〕 moved with his family on the northwest side of Chicago in the Cabrini-Green projects,〔''Knocking on Heaven's Door: Rock Obituaries'' (2006), p. 390〕 a high-crime area,〔 as a child where he developed a boyhood friendship with Otis Leavill, both attending Wells High School. This was the same school Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler attended.〔Contemporary Black, Volume 43, p. 136〕 Mayfield called Lance a "sparkly fellow, and a great basketball player, which is probably how we met. His hero was Jackie Wilson, and he was always coming round and looking through my bag for songs that I'd written but didn't want to do with the Impressions. He was pretty good at picking them, too."
Lance was also a baseball player.〔 Lance and Otis both did boxing, and also singing as members of the Five Gospel Harmonaires.〔(Biography of Otis Leavill Cobb by Andrew Hamilton at AllMusic ); accessed April 15, 2012.〕〔(Major Lance profile ), Soulwalking.co.uk; accessed April 7, 2015.〕 Both of them also worked together at a drug store.
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