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The Undisputed Truth was an American Motown recording act assembled by record producer Norman Whitfield to experiment with his psychedelic soul production techniques. [1] Joe "Pep" Harris served as main lead singer, with Billie Rae Calvin and Brenda Joyce Evans on additional leads and background vocals.
- Beginnings
- A New Era
- The Cosmic Era
- Goodbye, Motown
The Undisputed Truth were formed in 1970 with singers Billie Rae Calvin, Brenda Joyce Evans, and Joe Harris. Calvin and Evans had worked together in a vocal group called The Delicates, while Harris had been with The Fabulous Peps. Neither group was setting the charts on fire, but when Motown artist Bobby Taylor saw The Delicates, their fortunes cha...
The Undisputed Truth’s third album, Law of the Land, would be the last with the original lineup. The new album had a song that the group thought would finally take them out of the shadows of The Temptations and put them on top of the charts: “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone.” Calvin, like the other members, was often frustrated by being seen as not much m...
In the mid-1970s, soul went to space. The psych-soul of just a few years earlier was giving way to the funk. In his book Funk: The Music, the People, and the Rhythm of the One, Rickey Vincent describes it as the “James Brown Bomb,” an undeniable shift in how music was played and felt. Funk, Vincent writes, “became an essential aspect of any black a...
Not only did the mid-70s bring a change to the group artistically, it also brought a label change. Whitfield was frustrated with the Motown structure, and how his projects weren’t getting the support he felt they needed. Whitfield left the label in 1975, and took The Undisputed Truth with him to record on his own Whitfield Records. The Undisputed T...
30. Jan. 2018 · Producer Norman Whitfield assembled The Undisputed Truth in 1970 with singers Joe Harris, Billie Calvin, and Brenda Joyce Evans. For Whitfield, who concurrently produced The Temptations, the trio functioned as an outlet for his more radical musical ideas. Harris had cut a string of 1960s singles as one-third of soulsters The Four Preps.
Jack Weber. Isy Martin. Brenda Joyce Evans. Virginia McDonald. Carl Smalls. Calvin Stephenson. The Undisputed Truth were the brainchild of producer Norman Whitfield, who formed the group in 1970, allowing him to showcase the team's musical and artistic expressions. Joe Harris (formerly of the Preps) served as the main lead singer for the group ...
The newfound interest in her work inspired her to write more songs to perform, and in 1967 she released a record created with her grandchildren, which took its name from one of her songs, "Shake Sugaree". The song featured 12-year-old Brenda Joyce Evans, Cotten's great-grandchild, and future Undisputed Truth singer. [citation needed]
Details. Original Undisputed Truth members Billie Rae Calvin and Brenda Joyce Evans left shortly before the recording of this album, and the group's producer, Norman Whitfield, took the opportunity to expand the group.
She studied drama in high school in Los Angeles and appeared in productions of those shows; while still a student, she met Brenda Joyce Evans and joined a girl group called the Delicates. Later, the pair moved to Detroit and began working as background singers at Motown, where ace producer Norman Whitfield was strategizing a new act for the ...
