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Fuqua would later be credited for bringing Marvin Gaye to the label, which signed Gaye in 1960.
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" Different styles defined the Moonglows lead singers: Fuqua favored the uptempo R & B / rock numbers while Lester sung more of the romantic ballads, for which the group was better known, and occasionally the two would share the leads, duet-style.
Recording with fifth member Chuck Barksdale, who had been ( and would again become ) the bass singer of the Dells, Fuqua hired them as his new Moonglows.
Fuqua would lead a separate Ink Spots group in the future.
It was decided by court ruling that Fuqua would have to use the name " The ' New ' Ink Spots " but after a short time he dropped the ' New ' and called his group " The Ink Spots ".
Terry Bradshaw himself had made points similar to those of Fetkovich 15 years earlier, stating that he did not think that he had thrown the ball hard enough for it to bounce that far back off Fuqua, and that since Fuqua was running across the field, the ball would have veered to the right if it had hit him.
Fuqua and Secor would go on to found Old Crow Medicine Show in 1998.
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James was recorded for the Chess subsidiary label Argo ( later Cadet ) and had her first hit singles under duets with Fuqua including " If I Can't Have You " and " Spoonful ".
Later, Gordy and Fuqua married, and later merged their operation with Motown Records.
Fuqua reunited with most of his 1972 Moonglows for a 1983 Grammy Award performance, and later toured as ' Harvey and the Moonglows ' until 1986.
Charlie Fuqua was discharged in 1945 and returned to the group later that year, replacing Huey Long.
Terrell recorded her vocals alone with producers Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol, who added Gaye's vocal at a later date.
He is noted for later having been one of the key figures in the development of the Motown label in Detroit, Michigan: his group gave Marvin Gaye's musical career a start, and Fuqua and his wife at the time, Gwen Gordy, distributed the very first Motown hit single, Barrett Strong's " Money ( That's What I Want )", on their record label, Anna Records.
Fuqua later sold Anna Records to Gwen's brother Berry Gordy, and became a songwriter and executive at Motown.
Gordy was impressed with Marvin and later began working out a negotiation deal with Fuqua to sign the young singer to Gordy's Motown empire.
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Gaye branched out into secular music as a teenager, joining the doo-wop group The Marquees, after returning from an honorable discharge from the United States Air Force, before the group was hired by Harvey Fuqua to be Harvey & The Moonglows.
Fuqua wanted Washington's character to be seductive and part of a machine, and not just a random rogue cop.
Asked mid-2008 if Gill Landry was " now a full-time member or will Critter Fuqua be back?
The Fuqua Judicial Board ruled in late April 2007 that 9 students should be expelled and 15 students receive a one-year suspension and a failing grade in the course.
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Although Lester and Fuqua are credited as forming a spinoff group called the Moonlighters, recording in 1955 for the Chess subsidiary label Checker, they paired on only two numbers released as by the Moonlighters, " So All Alone " and " New Gal.
His great grandfather, John Fuqua, is credited with founding the town of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.
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Fuqua sent for Gaye to move with him to Detroit to work for the established label, Anna Records, whose records were nationally distributed by Chess.
In 1959 and 1960, Fuqua also recorded several duets for Chess with Etta James.
In July 1959, a group called ' The Ecuadors ' " who, according to Fuqua, really were the Moonglows ( which included Gaye and James )" reportedly recorded at Chess singing backgrounds for Chuck Berry.
In 1972, the three original Moonglows who had remained active, Graves, Lester, and Fuqua, joined with new members Doc Williams and Chuck Lewis, and recorded Return of the Moonglows for RCA Records.
Ernie Brown substituted for Williams for a short time and Fuqua left in 1952 to form his own group and was replaced first by Jimmy Cannady, then by Everett Barksdale.
Individual members that recorded with Fuqua's Ink Spots that recorded for King Records included Charles Fuqua, Jimmy Holmes, Harold Jackson, Leon Antoine, Isaac Royal, and Essex Scott.
* Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship ( CASE ), Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
The movie was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Antoine Fuqua ; David Franzoni, the writer for Gladiator, wrote the screenplay.
At the mouth of Hell for Certain Creek, at the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, a mission church exists which was started in the early 1950s by the late Miss Evelyn Fuqua, who was a licensed minister in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches.
When group co-founder Fuqua left the group in 2004 to pursue " recovery from a longtime alcohol addiction ", the group looked about for a suitable replacement, finding it in Gill Landry, whom they'd first encountered in New Orleans in 2000 where they were " both busking over Mardi Gras.
Secor and Chris ' Critter ' Fuqua, an original member of the group who has not performed with them for some time, began playing tour dates January 2012, including a benefit show at Little Grill Collective where their performing careers began.
Founding member Fuqua rejoined the group in January 2012, after leaving in 2004 " initially leaving to go to rehab for his drinking, then staying out to attend college.
Image: Critter Fuqua and Ketch Secor at LGC. jpg | Chris ' Critter ' Fuqua ( guitar ) with Ketch Secor ( banjo ) at benefit show for Our Community PlaceLittle Grill Collective in Harrisonburg, VirginiaJanuary 14, 2012.
After going to school for electrical engineering, with the hope of going on to fly jets in the military, Fuqua began his career directing music videos for popular artists like Toni Braxton and Prince, and then went on to become a successful film director.
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Aggressive campus building projects continued through the 1960s, ' 70s and ' 80s, bringing to campus the Kilpatrick Stadium, Loridans House, Smith Natatorium, Vasser Woolley Library, Fuqua Center, Wallace Gym, Hite Wellness Center, and more.
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The biggest blow came when Fuqua spotted a young vocal group, the Marquees from Washington, D. C., and took the quartet of Reese Palmer, Chester Simmons, James Knowland and nineteen-year-old lead singer Marvin Gaye under his wing.
After living in Chicago for two years and following a tour in Detroit, Fuqua decided to split up the group and take Marvin with him to help get him work in the musically-developing city.
Fuqua then signed Marvin to a contract with his Harvey and Tri-Phi Records and also assigned him to work with his then-girlfriend Gwen Gordy's Anna label.
Fuqua agreed to sell 50 % of his interest in Marvin to Gordy, which led to Gordy presenting Gaye with a lucrative deal, which he signed with the following month.
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Also during this time, Moonglows founder Harvey Fuqua who sang background on many of Diddley's home studio recordings was introduced to Gaye, and asked him to join the Moonglows.
When Fuqua went to Motown, Gaye followed.
Gaye is located fourth on the right from a seated Fuqua.
Gaye had performed by himself at a Christmas party in Gordy's home after Gwen Gordy and Harvey Fuqua invited him.
After asking Fuqua to make a deal to get Gaye out of Fuqua's contract, Fuqua sold 50 % of his interest in the singer's contract to Gordy, who assigned Gaye to Motown's Tamla label shortly afterwards.
This original version of " Ain't No Mountain ", produced by Fuqua and Bristol, was a care-free, danceable, and romantic love song that became the signature duet between Gaye and Terrell.
Written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson and produced by Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol, the doo-wop styled recording features background vocals by Fuqua, Gaye, Terrell and Bristol, and instrumentals by The Funk Brothers.
Written by Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, and Vernon Bullock, the single was Gaye & Terrell's third single together and the second to go Top Ten on both the Pop and R & B charts of Billboard, peaking at number ten and number two, respectively.
Gaye had performed songs while attending a Christmas party held at Berry Gordy's house after being invited to the party by Harvey Fuqua and Gwen Gordy.
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