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At a time when church elders disapproved of secular singing, the band members would leave their home state and perform in South Carolina as the R&B group the Avons. Eventually they left gospel behind and went on as the Avons. Meeting James Brown and the formation of The Famous Flames The original group consisted of Byrd, who played piano, organ and sang lead vocals and Nafloyd Scott, Fred Pulliam and Doyle Oglesby. In 1952 Bobby Byrd formed and sang with a gospel group called the Gospel Starlighters. During a friendly baseball match at a juvenile prison, he met a young James Brown who was serving time there on robbery charges. Byrd befriended him and arranged for Byrd's family to oversee Brown's parole.
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THANI ORUWE DIYA GABARE. INDRANI PERERA PROFESSIONAL
This began a personal and professional association that lasted until 1973.Īlthough Byrd would eventually have over twenty years as a solo performer, it is his association with James Brown for which he is chiefly remembered. Eventually Brown was driven to perform as lead singer, as he felt lead vocalists got more attention from women.Ĭontrary to belief, the group had already changed its name to the Flames when Brown asked Byrd for a spot in the group, with Brown first settling as a drummer. Byrd recognized early that Brown was unique and that it would be impossible to control him: "I didn't need him in competition, I needed him with me, that's why I worked so hard to get him over to my group." In 1956, Clint Brantley signed on as the group's manager. With Johnny Terry and Nash Knox on board, the group became "The Famous Flames" and won a deal with Ralph Bass' Federal label, which was a subsidiary of Syd Nathan's King Records, in February 1956. Their first record, " Please, Please, Please", which Byrd said he wrote with Johnny Terry, featured a lead vocal by James Brown and was issued with the billing, "James Brown and the Famous Flames", which did not go well with the rest of the group.
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After three sessions, the original Flames broke up. The Flames without Brown changed their name to Byrd's Drops of Joy. However, they found little success when Brown approached them to reform the Flames they agreed. At this point, The Famous Flames ceased being a vocal/instrumental group, and became a straight vocal group, since Brown had begun to employ the old J.C.
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Original Flames members Bobby Byrd and Johnny Terry returned, and new Flames members Bobby Bennett and Baby Lloyd Stallworth were added. Along with Brown, these four men comprised the longest-lasting lineup of The Famous Flames. Original Flames guitarist Nafloyd Scott also returned and was added to the band. The rest of the original Flames faded into obscurity.
THANI ORUWE DIYA GABARE. INDRANI PERERA SERIES
With this lineup the group would have a series of hits between 19 and participated on many of the albums that helped to bring R&B to a crossover audience, including the landmark million-selling 1963 live album, Live at the Apollo. Byrd and the Famous Flames also performed together on a few episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show, made a brief appearance in the film, Ski Party and upstaged headliners The Rolling Stones on the landmark 1964 rock concert/motion picture, The T.A.M.I.