YEAR
2000
INDUCTED BY
Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)
CATEGORY
Performers
The R&B group baptized by rock and roll god Alan Freed.
The Moonglows’ time was brief but influential. One of the premier R&B groups of the Fifties, their elegant blend had a rock and roll edge that earned them a spot in the dawning rock movement.
Billy Johnson
Bobby Lester
Harvey Fuqua
Peter Graves
Prentiss Barnes
HALL OF FAME
ESSAY
By Jerry "The Geator" Blavat
Let me take you back to a different time, a time when we were all kids listening to music different from our parents’. It was harmony, it was soul, it was rhythm & blues. When I was a kid in South Philadelphia, even before realizing that one day I would become the Geator, that sound haunted me.
It was a magical, almost ethereal, harmony. And the one group that blew me away was the Moonglows: Harvey Fuqua, Prentiss Barnes, Alexander “Pete” Graves, Bobby Lester and guitarist Billy Johnson.
