Doo wop group the Velvetones formed in Newark, NJ, in 1943. According to the article on %Marv Goldberg's R&B Notebooks website (http://home.att.net/~marvy42/marvart.html), the initial Velvetones were tenor lead Madison Flanagan, second tenor and bassist Walter Dawkins, baritone and guitarist Sam Rucker, and pianist/arranger Enoch Martin, and they spent their formative years touring the Midwest, with a 12-week engagement at Newark's ~Piccadilly Club in mid-1945 helping land a deal with the Coronet label.
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