Soul School Music™ with Marshall Thompson welcomes The Floaters.

Soul School Music™ with Marshall Thompson welcomes The Floaters.

Nov. 8, 2017 at 5PM-PST 7PM-CST 8PM-EST

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About Our Guest:

This talented quartet from Detroit unfortunately became synonymous with the term "One Hit Wonder," but that one hit has kept them working for 30 years now and has given audiences around the world the chance to see their impressive live performances.

The Floaters started as a quartet in the early 70s with members Larry Cunningham, Charles Clark, Robert Palmer and Paul Mitchell, and became a very popular club act in Detroit. Wooed by another local group with a small label contract, Palmer left and was replaced by Ralph Mitchell, who was with the group when they were subsequently discovered and signed by ABC Records executive Otis Smith. The group's self-titled debut album hit the stores wth virtually no fanfare, but a young New York disc-jocky threw the the single "Float On," with its memorable bass line, on the air during a break and the phone lines lit up. A disc-jockey in Cleveland has similar results and soon ABC realized it had a potential hit on its hands. The single ultimately climbed to the top of both Soul charts, one of the most unlikely hits of 1977. "Float On" came in various lengths and mixes, the most ponderous of which was an 11 minute version that dominated Side One of the debut album. 

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