MCPHATTER, CLYDE LENSEY

McPHATTER, CLYDE LENSEY. Rhythm n blues singer (15 November 1933 in Durham, North Carolina; 13 June 1972 in New York, New York). His mother was a church organist. He began singing in his father's church choir at the age of five. During his high-school years he formed a gospel group, the Mt. Lebanon Singers; at seventeen he was lead singer of the group called Billy Ward and the Dominoes (1950-53). In 1953 he organized The Drifters —composed of Gerhart Thrasher...