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The Midnighters
The Midnighters were an American R&B group from Detroit, Michigan. They were an influential group in the 1950s and early 1960s, with many R&B hit records. They were also notable for launching the career of lead singer Hank Ballard, and the world-wide dance craze The Twist. Between 1953 and 1962 The Midnighters scored almost two dozen hits on the National Pop & R&B Charts. Their big hits included the million-selling Billboard Top 10 pop hits "Finger Popping Time" (for which they received a 1961 Grammy Award nomination), and "Let's Go,Let's Go,Let's Go".The Midnighters also enjoyed 13 Top 10 R&B Hits,including 3 R&B # 1's. Top 10 R&B hits included "Work With Me Annie", "It's Love Baby (24 Hours A Day)", "Annie Had A Baby", "The Hoochi Coochi Coo", "Teardrops On Your Letter", "Get It", "The Float" and "Nothing But Good". They received The Rhythm and Blues Foundation's prestigious ''Pioneer Award'' in 1992, and were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999, Lead singer Hank Ballard received a controversial solo induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. The Midnighters as a ''group'' were inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 14, 2012.
==The Royals: origin and early years==
The Midnighters actually formed in 1952 as ''The Royals''. This group was formed in Detroit by guitarist and songwriter Alonzo Tucker. Prior to that time, they were known as The Four Falcons, but that was prior to their recording debut.( They had to change that name, as there was already another Detroit-based group with a similar name, ''The Falcons'') . During the groups' early years, such notable future stars as Jackie Wilson, Little Willie John, Freddie Pride, and Levi Stubbs (later to go on to worldwide fame as lead singer of Motown Records group The Four Tops) were members. After several personnel changes,the group finally stabilized, with members Tucker, Henry Booth, Charles Sutton, Sonny Woods, and Lawson Smith. Hank Ballard and Sonny Woods met when they worked on the same Ford auto assembly line in Detroit. They became friends, and when Smith, the group's lead singer, was drafted, Ballard joined the group to take his place. This was the Royals' lineup when they were discovered by legendary bandleader,songwriter, and record producer Johnny Otis in 1953. Otis became the Royals' manager, and obtained a record deal for them with Cincinnati-based King Records on its DeLuxe subsidiary label. Initially, Henry Booth took over Smith's role as lead singer, while Ballard sang back up with Woods, Sutton, and Tucker. Early Royals/Midnighters recordings featuring Henry Booth were doo-wop ballads, including the original version of ''"Every Beat Of My Heart"'', written by Otis, (which, years later, became the first million-selling hit for Gladys Knight & the Pips), and "Starting From Tonight" (written by group member Alonzo Tucker). Hank Ballard began writing for the group, and became the group's lead singer, and the group experienced success. They moved to another King Records subsidiary, Federal Records, and "Get It" became their first major R&B hit, spending seven weeks in the Top 10 on the R&B charts, and also selling well in mainstream markets. Also around this time, the group's name. "The Royals", was too similar to another group on the King roster, The "5" Royales, so, as to distinguish themselves from this group, their name was changed to "The Midnighters".
"Get It" was followed by many other hits, all of which featured Ballard on lead vocals. The first record in this series was "Work with Me, Annie", (1953) a controversial song that reached #1 on the Billboard R&B Chart. The rest of the "Annie" song series included "Sexy Ways" (# 2 R&B,1954),"Annie Had A Baby" (#1 R&B,1954), "Annie's Aunt Fannie" (#10 R&B,1954), and "Henry's Got Flat Feet (Can't Dance No More)" (#14 R&B,1955). That particular song was The Midnighters' answer to Etta James' "answer song" to The Midnighters, "(Dance with Me, Henry)" which became her first hit earlier that year.
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