A tale of interracial love by Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers, who started out from that town in British Columbia. Their original drummer was Floyd Sneed, soon to be a member of Three Dog Night. Floyd’s sister was married at the time to the group’s guitarist, Tommy Chong. Yeah, as in Cheech and Chong later on. The band did a show in Chicago where an then-unknown family act, the Jackson 5, opened for them. Bobby brought them to the attention of Berry Gordy, as they recorded for Motown. Gordy signed the Jacksons but publicly credited the far bigger star Diana Ross with discovering them, although she had nothing to do with it.
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Sort of like SOCIETY'S CHILD, only with a role reversal.
This time the perspective is from the guy, not the girl.
Good point!
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