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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ink Spots
The Ink Spots are known in certain gaming circles for their song "Maybe", which was used as the opening and closing music of the game Fallout.
These areas of dried ink, being at the same level as the printing surface of the plate, were printed on the sheets of stamps as ink spots and continued to appear in the same locations on the sheet until the dried ink was removed by cleaning.
There was thus a continuous changing of the ink spot pattern that appeared during a printing and a knowledge of these different patterns that occurred during the entire period that the plates were used gives the researcher a powerful tool for identifying the date range during which a particular stamp was printed.
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 The Ink Spots
The Ink Spots are legends of American music; one of the most influential vocal groups of all time and the most imitated entertainers in show business.
The Ink Spots' musical impact was recognized formally in 1987 when inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.
The Ink Spots were faced suddenly with the prospect of carrying on without their longtime friend and colleague.
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 ARB Productions - The Ink Spots
The Ink Spots "were the most popular and influential fl vocal group in show business in the thirties and forties" according to the Faber Companion to Twentieth-Century Popular Music.
The Ink Spots, during their prime recording period (1939 to 1951) had 50 hit records with 11 of their songs reaching the Top Ten between 1940 and 1949.
The Ink Spots' style found its inspiration in the jubilee gospel songs and, in turn, inspired the early rhythm and blues bands and the "doo-wop" groups like The Ravens and The Orioles.
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 Welcome to Ray Richardson's Canadian Ink Spots (trademarked)
The Ink Spots " were the most popular and influential fl vocal group in show business in the thirties and forties " according to The Faber Companion to Twentieth-Century Popular Music.
The second and third million-sellers for the Ink Spots were " The Gypsy " and " To Each His Own ", both which were number 1 on the charts in 1946.
Ray Richardson's Ink Spots are a quartet of exceptionally talented and accomplished musicians.
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 Welcome to ACTS Nashville - Ray Richardson's Ink Spots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1960, Lorenzo was introduced to Ray by Bernie Mackey, who had been a guitarist with The Ink Spots and in l965 Lorenzo began performing with Ray Richardsons Ink Spots, until his death in l999.
Ray Richardson's Ink Spots are a sixtet of exceptionally talented and accomplished musicians.
The original style and famous tradition come with Ray and Lorenzo to the Ink Spots, but the songs also have a fresh, contemporary feel that will thrill their audiences once more.
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 The ink spots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 ink-spots Mp3 Albums Review
The Ink Spots found a sound and stuck to it as nobody before or since; it was as if they were afraid to stray away from it and in time they faded as a group.
In the vocal group The Ink Spots the leader would sing high(in what sounds like a British accent) while a another member of the group would say in a deep voice "Heney chile, oh honey chile" while the other two sang and palayyed the guitar in a boring fashion.
These are the Ink Spots' biggest hits from 1939 through 1946, beginning with their first million-seller "If I Didn't Care" through their final No. 1 "To Each His Own." [Their website claims "If I Didn't Care" has sold 19 million copies!] These are the original Decca singles presented in sequence as they were first released.
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 History of The Ink Spots
The Ink Spots have been called living legends of American music; one of the most influential vocal groups of all time and the most imitated entertainers in show business.
The Ink Spots 'story spans six decades, more than 80 chair hits and performances throughout the world.
Especially pleasing were the 1 0 to 20 college dates the group would perform each year, where young people, many of whose parents weren't born at the time of The Ink Spots' first hits, would get their first chance to hear the quartet.
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 Long Island Traditions | Artist Profiles : The Ink Spots
The Ink Spots are an African American quartet that became famous for hit songs like "If I Didn’t Care," "The Java Jive," and "I Don’t Want To Set the World on Fire." The original group was formed in 1932 and sang four-part harmony arrangements of various popular songs.
Like other a capella and harmony singing ensembles in the 1950s, the Ink Spots sang a varied repertoire for both listening and dancing.
In 1958, he heard that Adriel McDonald, a replacement bass for the Ink Spots, was looking for a lead singer; Bill tried out and got the job.
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 THE INK SPOTS (ORIGINAL GROUP)
From the late 1930's to the early 1950's the original Ink Spots were one of the most popular and influential singing groups of the time.
THE INK SPOTS IN THE PRESS - to December 31, 1942
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 Ink Spots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One of the two granddaddies of vocal groups, the Ink Spots introduced a number of firsts that had a direct impact on the development of rhythm and blues in the ‘40s and rock and roll in the ‘50s.
Although THE MILLS BROTHERS were successful years before the Ink Spots and turned out many more hits (71 to the Spots’ 46), each had a tremendous influence on music, the public, and future vocalists, and chances are that a group or singer influenced by the other.
The Ink Spots played a large role in pioneering the fl vocal group-harmony genre, helping to pave the way for the doo wop explosion of the '50s.
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 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On The Ink Spots
Inside the bar, under a ceiling of paper stars, she placed the box on a table that would serve as a shrine: There were candles, ceramic angels, and an album cover showing the Ink Spots, the fabled quartet he had toured with for 20 years.
Throughout the '40s and into the early-'50s, the Ink Spots were a top drawing act and they influenced doo-wop movement that followed in their wake.
The Ink Spots were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999...
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 45s.com - The Ink Spots - Recording artist information: The Ink Spots - 45 RPM Records -- Search for records, ...
The Ink Spots were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.
Inspired by big-name jazz bands and old-time vaudeville acts, the Ink Spots got their start in Indianapolis in the 1920s.
The Ink Spots' tradition of romantic ballads sung in perfect harmony retains its timeless, old-fashioned appeal to this day.
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 ***HERB KENNYthe INK SPOTS***
Some of these recordings were Ink Spots style (the Ink Spots were imitated by many groups) with talking bass chorus.
Herb's longest tenure with an Ink Spots group was with this one - the group of Kenny, Bowen, Kenny and Fuqua that formed when Charlie Fuqua returned from the army.
Hoppy Jones, with his cello strung as a bass, was such a recognized part of the Ink Spots that later bass singers also held a cello but as far as we know, Hoppy was the only bass singer that ever played one [Photo from Bill Proctor's collection].
www.inkspots.ca /herbkenny-bio.htm   (1125 words)

  
 Arts and Entertainment Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Ink Spots span the decades, starting out in the early 1930's in Indianapolis, Indiana, first known as the Riff Brothers then as the Percolating Puppies, then changed to the Ink Spots.
The Ink Spots have more than 80 hits to their credit and have been dubbed "America's Favorite Vocal Group.
The Ink Spots were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1987; the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989; and also are in the Apollo and Vocal Group Halls of Fame.
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 the ink spots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Ink Spots - The Greatest Hits [MCA] [ the ink spots ]
The Ink Spots' hushed harmonies and acoustic-guitar backing were something of an anomaly in the brash swing era; they nevertheless carved a niche as one of the benchmark acts of '40s pop and were harbingers of doo wop.
The group's most distinctive voices were tenor Bill Kenny, whose soft leaps into his high range remain heart-catching more than a half century later, and baritone Orville "Hoppy" Jones, who provides most of the 15 songs on Greatest Hits with recitations that are usually sincere and solemn, occasionally self-parodying ("Whispering Grass").
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 SearchEngine.net - Remove Ink Spots
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 The Ink Spots Home Page
The Ink Spots continue to delight audiences with the wonderful harmonies and arrangements that have made the group a musical legend around the world.
Join such presenters as the London Palladium, Harlem's Apollo Theater, the Houston and Atlanta Symphonies, colleges and leading venues around the world by bringing the high energy and all-around professionalism of the famous Ink Spots to your stage.
The Ink Spots© is a U.S. registered trademark of The Hanover Group.
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 The Ink Spots
"The Ink Spots" were an American Pop music vocal group that helped define the musical genre that led to rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and even, eventually, to the subgenre called doo-wop.
He later formed a host of offshoot Ink Spots groups in the 1950s and 1960s, as did Charlie Fuqua.
As far as is known, these are the ''only'' singers and accompanists who deserve to be called "original" Ink Spots (that is, those who were in the group that recorded for Victor and Decca), although dozens, possibly hundreds, of others have claimed that honor over the decades.
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 The Ink Spots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Ink Spots were an American vocal group that define the musical genre that eventually became known as doo-wop.
In 1940s the Ink Spots released such other as "I'm Making Believe" (1944) and "The Gypsy" (1946).
Marv Goldberg, a musicologist without parallel, has written not only a complete biography of the Inkspots, from the various embryonic stages of the individual members to...
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 The Ink Spots MP3 Downloads - The Ink Spots Music Downloads - The Ink Spots Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Two discs and almost 50 tracks of the Ink Spots, all recorded within a relatively narrow 13-year window, could be enough to overwhelm anyone not intimately interested in close-harmony vocal music, especially such a humid, narcoleptic sound as the Ink Spots tended toward.
Prime among the latter are the kinetic "Your Feet's Too Big," one of their first recordings, and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin," probably more famous now as an Elvis Presley cover than an Ink Spots original.
As often happened during the 1940s and '50s, the Ink Spots also recorded dozens of songs in the standards repertory, and several of those ("Who Wouldn't Love You," "Prisoner of Love," "I Cover the Waterfront," "I Get the Blues When It Rains") make for the biggest surprises on this bountiful compilation.
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 The Ink Spots - Encore of Golden Hits @ Soundbug
This CD contains remakes of the original classics by the Ink Spots by an inferior modern group who somehow inherited the name.
They are tone-deaf cry-babies who can only listen over and over to the same dozen Ink Spots recordings from 1940-1945 and think they must WARN the buying public that any post-1950 INK SPOTS recording is a fake, or is very poor, or "not even close".
These people probably legitimately inherited the name "The Ink Spots" but, to those of us who grew up listening to the originals, they don't even come close to the style and substance we enjoyed.
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 The Ink Spots vocal group
Along with the Mills Bros, the Ink Spots were the most popular fl vocal group of the 1930's and 40's, though their careers spanned such duration, that groups are still performing under the Ink Spots name!
The four Ink Spots recorded for the American Decca label from 1936 to 1951, and during that time made it to the Top 30 Hit Parade Charts with no fewer than 46 titles.
The Spots' distinctive guitar intro, soaring falsetto of Bill Kenny, and "Hoppy" Jones' talking chorus are present on some of these songs, absent on others.
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 The Ink Spots - Honey Moon LYRICS
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 INK SPOTS & ELLA FITZGERALD Vinyl Records ~ Used, Rare, Collectible and Vintage Vinyl LPs & 45s
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