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The Undisputed Truth was an American Motown recording act assembled by record producer Norman Whitfield to experiment with his psychedelic soul production techniques. [1] Joe "Pep" Harris served as main lead singer, with Billie Rae Calvin and Brenda Joyce Evans on additional leads and background vocals.
She studied drama in high school in Los Angeles and appeared in productions of those shows; while still a student, she met Brenda Joyce Evans and joined a girl group called the Delicates. Later, the pair moved to Detroit and began working as background singers at Motown, where ace producer Norman Whitfield was strategizing a new act for the ...
Brenda Joyce Evans leaves the group in ’73 and is replaced by Diane Evans. Her tenure is short and Whitfield takes her departure as a cue to remake the Truth. Harris and Calvin are joined by Tyrone Douglas, Tyrone Barkley and Virginia McDonald.
- Beginnings
- A New Era
- The Cosmic Era
- Goodbye, Motown
The Undisputed Truth were formed in 1970 with singers Billie Rae Calvin, Brenda Joyce Evans, and Joe Harris. Calvin and Evans had worked together in a vocal group called The Delicates, while Harris had been with The Fabulous Peps. Neither group was setting the charts on fire, but when Motown artist Bobby Taylor saw The Delicates, their fortunes cha...
The Undisputed Truth’s third album, Law of the Land, would be the last with the original lineup. The new album had a song that the group thought would finally take them out of the shadows of The Temptations and put them on top of the charts: “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone.” Calvin, like the other members, was often frustrated by being seen as not much m...
In the mid-1970s, soul went to space. The psych-soul of just a few years earlier was giving way to the funk. In his book Funk: The Music, the People, and the Rhythm of the One, Rickey Vincent describes it as the “James Brown Bomb,” an undeniable shift in how music was played and felt. Funk, Vincent writes, “became an essential aspect of any black a...
Not only did the mid-70s bring a change to the group artistically, it also brought a label change. Whitfield was frustrated with the Motown structure, and how his projects weren’t getting the support he felt they needed. Whitfield left the label in 1975, and took The Undisputed Truth with him to record on his own Whitfield Records. The Undisputed T...
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The song featured 12-year-old Brenda Joyce Evans, Cotten's great-grandchild, and future Undisputed Truth singer. [ citation needed ] Using profits from her touring, record releases and awards given to her for her own contributions to the folk arts, Cotten was able to move with her daughter and grandchildren from Washington, D.C., and ...
Down to Earth (The Undisputed Truth album) Down to Earth is the fourth album by psychedelic soul group The Undisputed Truth. [1] Details. Original Undisputed Truth members Billie Rae Calvin and Brenda Joyce Evans left shortly before the recording of this album, and the group's producer, Norman Whitfield, took the opportunity to expand the group.
30 de ene. de 2018 · Producer Norman Whitfield assembled The Undisputed Truth in 1970 with singers Joe Harris, Billie Calvin, and Brenda Joyce Evans. For Whitfield, who concurrently produced The Temptations, the trio functioned as an outlet for his more radical musical ideas.
