The Coronets - Nadine Chess 1549 A video

Here is The Coronets "Nadine" on Chess 1549. Released in 1953. This group went through a lot of lead singer changes, I believe 5 or 6. But this song was their most popular, it was on the top 10 charts for about 11weeks. While Cleveland was the scene of heavy Rhythm & Blues activity in the 50s, it was often overshadowed by being in the middle of New York, Chicago and Detroit. One of the smoothest sounds to come out of Cleveland's early R&B scene was that of the Coronets. Sam Griggs and his brother William were both veterans of church quartet singing. While attending Thomas Edison High School (since renamed after Martin Luther King), Sam sang with some local groups and also with the school glee club (along with Lester Russaw and George Lewis). Upon graduation, Sam (who had been a boxer) got married and started thinking about whether there was money to be made by singing. Rounding up brother William Griggs (bass), Lester Russaw (first tenor), and George Lewis (baritone), Sam (a second tenor) started looking around for a lead singer. They eventually selected tenor Charles Carruthers, who had attended Central High School. Other names occasionally linked with the Coronets (Greg Morrison, Henry Lovett, Cullen Maiden, and future opera singer Leonard Parker) were all Edison High glee club members but never actually belonged to the group. All the members were out of high school by this time. Lester was the youngest at 18 and Sam, the oldest, was around 23. Now that they had a group ...