Cleve Duncan

Singer and founder member of the Penguins, noted for their hit Earth AngelThe dogged piano triplets, rudimentary four-chord harmonic structure, goofy woh-woh backing vocals and the muffled quality of a garage recording were typical of early doo-wop music when the Penguins' Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine) appeared in 1954. But perhaps the most distinctive feature of a record that sold more than 1m copies and became a classic of its genre was the pleading tenor voice of Cleve Duncan, who has...

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