SWAN SILVERTONE SINGERS, THE

SWAN SILVERTONE SINGERS, THE. Gospel group (orig. 1938 in West Virginia). The male quartet was organized by Claude Jeter (c1914 in Montgomery, Alabama), who later became an ordained minister. His family moved to Kentucky when he was a child, after his father's death, and he completed his high-school studies there. He then went to West Virginia, where he worked in the coal mines. In 1938 he organized a group, which included his brother and two other miners, called The...