The Moonglows
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Year:
2000
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Inducted by:
Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)
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Category:
Performers
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Billy Johnson -
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Bobby Lester -
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Harvey Fuqua -
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Peter Graves -
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Prentiss Barnes
Introduction
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.
Paul Simon Inducts the Moonglows
Paul Simon Inducts the Moonglows at the 2000 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony-
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Paul Simon Inducts the Moonglows00:03:39 -
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Harvey Fuqua of The Moonglows Acceptance Speech00:01:30 -
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"Sincerely"00:02:51
Hall of Fame Essay
2000
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.
