BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Description: Vocalist, USA
Known For: “Come Go with Me” Hit Song 1957
Instruments: Voice
Music Styles: Rock, Doo Wop
Location: PA, United States of America
Date Born: 2nd February 1937
Location Born: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date Died: 5th May 1983
Location Died: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Cause Of Death: Heart attack
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Clarence Quick
An American vocalist.
An original member of “The Del Vikings” during the fifties.
The Del-Vikings (also known as The Dell-Vikings) are an American doo-wop musical group, who recorded several hit singles in the 1950s, and continued to record and tour with various lineups in later decades. The group was notable for being one of the few racially integrated musical groups to attain success in the 1950s.
The Group Charted with “Come Go With Me” becoming one of their better known songs. The former American doo-wop musical group who recorded several hit singles in the 1950s and continued to record and tour with various lineups in later.
The original members included Clarence E. Quick, Kripp Johnson, Don Jackson, Samuel Paterson, and Bernard Robertson. All members were in the armed forces when they formed.
The split of the group came around 1957, later the group would reunite with most of the original line-up in the 1970.
By the late seventies Quick would be the last remaining member of the group and would later leave for health reasons.
Quick died in 1985.
Members included.
Louis Velez
Arthur Martinez
Les Levine
Ron Coleman
Reggie Walker
Norman Wright’s Dell Vikings
Norman Wright
Norman Wright, Jr.
Anthony Wright
Mike Machado
Former members included.
Clarence Quick
Kripp Johnson
Gus Backus
David Lerchey
William Blakely