Clyde McPhatter - Clyde McPhatter - The Voice Of R&B

Koko Mojo Records introduces a new Spotlight Series, which inaugurates with the voice of R&B Clyde McPhatter, and as an added introductory bonus, the album runs to thirty-two recording. The album throughout is decorated with photographs and, the sleeve notes offering information on his life and career. Clyde McPhatter fronted Federal Records super-group Billy Ward and His Dominoes, and his career at Atlantic Records began when he helped form The Drifters, and he then gained international solo fame while signed to the label. The album additionally explores key performances for MGM and Mercury Records. McPhatter was blessed with a distinctive high tenor vocal with heavy use of melisma and sang with gospel fervor and, every recording is embellished with finesse. His crying tenor vocal has been imitated but never bettered!