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Sammy Strain is one of the few artists in popular music history who is a double Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, having been inducted with the O'Jays in 2005 and the Imperials in 2009. In 2018, Little Anthony and the Imperials were inducted into the National Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in Detroit. Discography Albums
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1. Apr. 2020 · It’s extremely rare to be inducted into the Hall of Fame twice, but that’s the story of Sammy Strain. Strain had an illustrious R&B career, starting off with the Chips and then moving on to the Fantastics and the Impacts. His career hit one of its peaks when he joined Little Anthony and the Imperials (his first induction into the Hall of ...
Samuel “Sammy” Strain Jr. was born in Brook-lyn in 1939 to Margaret Mason and Sammy Strain. Sr. His first exposure to music was through the phonograph records his mother, aunts and uncles played around the house – songs by Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra and the Ink Spots. “I grew up around music,” recalled ...
This was performed in September 1994 at Trevose PA. Sammy Strain, original member who subsequently sang with Little Anthony and the Imperials and The O'Jays,...
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After adding Sammy Strain (of Little Anthony and the Imperials), the O'Jays continued recording, though with limited success. In 1978, the group released "Use ta Be My Girl," which was their final top-five hit, though they continued placing songs on the R&B charts throughout the 1980s.
Meanwhile, Sammy Strain was busy singing with the Impacts [see Steven Kahn’s story, this issue of Echoes of the Past]. Strain and the Imperials had grown up together in Brooklyn. “By then Richard Barrett was in my life,” said Sammy Strain, “And one day he called me up while I was singing with the Impacts and nothing was really happening ...
