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The Moonglows

THE MOONGLOWS

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

Billy Johnson

Bobby Lester

Bobby Lester

Harvey Fuqua

Harvey Fuqua

Peter Graves

Peter Graves

Prentiss Barnes

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.

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