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The resulting record, with its shouted lead vocals from Billy Gordon, hit No. 1 on Billboard ' s R&B chart and crossed over to No. 3 on the Hot 100 in 1962. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc .
En 2005, Billy Hoggs, quien dejó Contours en 1964 para convertirse en ministro, hizo su primera y única aparición desde 1964, uniéndose a Contours con Joe Billingslea para la grabación de Motown: The Early Years for the Public Broadcasting System. Esta actuación se retransmite ocasionalmente en varias filiales de PBS.
3 de ago. de 2020 · THE CONTOURS History Page. In the late 1950s in Detroit, two singers named Joe Billingslea and Billy Gordon left their group (The Majestics) to create their own vocal group. Billingslea placed an ad in the local paper for other singers. Billy Hoggs answered it and was hired. Hoggs suggested they also consider his neighbor, Billy Rollins ...
Billingslea placed a want-ad in the local newspaper looking for singers. Billy Hoggs responded to the ad and became the group's third member. At Hoggs' recommendation, his friend Billy Rollins, became the fourth member of a group they named "The Blenders". Within weeks, Rollins was replaced with another friend of Hoggs, Leroy Fair.
In the fall of 1960, a recently-formed Detroit quintet calling themselves the Blenders – Billy Hoggs, Billy Gordon, Joe Billingslea, Hubert Johnson and Leroy Fair – auditions for Wes Higgins, who owns a local recording studio. They sing three songs, he likes one of them — but not the group, and they decline to give him the song.
Official: The Contours - Home | Facebook. @TheContours · Interest. classic.motown.com. About. See all. The Contours formed as an R&B vocal group in Detroit in 1959, featuring lead vocalist Billy Gordon, Billy Hoggs, Joe Billingslea and Sylvester Potts. 0 people follow this. http://classic.motown.com/ Interest. Page transparency. See all.
Most famous for their song “Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance),”The Contours formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1959 when Billy Gordon and Joe Billingslea, part of a group called the Majestics, decided to form their own group and placed a newspaper ad to find new members. Billy Hoggs answered the ad and brought along neighbor Billy Rollins.
