Reply With QuoteI can only come up with a negative example: The Ritchie Family. The original members were not related if my memory serves me right.
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Ever notice how often it's relatives up there on stage making such sweet music together ?? About as often as not I think, there's someone else from the family playing in that band .... singing in that group ..... messing up those dance steps ......
Shall we sort through them ?? :icon_question: :icon_cool: :icon_biggrin:
Some obvious ones first :
Sister Sledge (sisters)
Jacksons (brothers)
Bee Gees (brothers)
Isley Bros. (brothers)
ABBA (spouses)
Next !!?
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I can only come up with a negative example: The Ritchie Family. The original members were not related if my memory serves me right.
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The Sylvers
Kool & the gang (the Bells bros.)
The Allman brothers
The Staple singers
The Beach Boys (Wilson bros.), some LPs released on Warner brothers!!
The Gap band (also Wilson bros.)
The Carpenters
Womack & Womack
The Neville brothers
The Osmonds
The Brothers Johnson
...And I just know I'm missing plenty, but that's all I can think of for now.
Oh yeah, and the Andrews Sisters.
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...Oh, and I was forgetting the best:
Parliament/Funkadelic
Bootsy's Rubber Band
Cameo
Mandrill
Barrabas
the Dazz band
Zapp (Troutman bros.)
Earth, Wind, & Fire (White bros.)
Sly & the family stone (Stewart bros.)
the Temptations
Martha & the Vandellas
the Ruffin bros.
the Chambers bros.
the Walkers (not the Walker bros., who in fact were NOT brothers)
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The Tavares (5 Brothers)
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Ashford & Simpson
The Brecker Bros.
The Pointer Sisters
Young & Co.
Levert
Blue Magic
Tony Toni Tone
Switch
Debarge
Peaches & Herb
Yarbrough & Peoples
The Whispers
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Q.D. Earl on Stickam
Q.D. Earl on Mixcrate
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The Emotions(3 sisters)
Holland - Dozier - Holland
B. T Express (2Brothers in the band)
Isley - Jasper -Isley
The Valentinos (Bobby Womack & his 3 brothers)
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Lime
The Raes
Sparks
The Gibson Brothers
Heatwave
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Don't forget the Thompson Twins!:icon_mrgreen::icon_eek:
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The Scissor Sisters :icon_eek:
THE TWINZ!!!!
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MFSB (mother father sister brother)!
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How about the cheesy tackiest sister act ever "Cheeky Girls"the worst thing to come out of Romania since Dracula.
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Great topic.
Trammps (Wade Brothers)
Instant Funk (Kim and Scott Miller)
MFSB & Yellow Sunshine (Roland and Karl Chambers) MFSB, etc... (Thom, Tony & Leroy Bell)
Since we're also mentioning soul funk groups:
The Meters (the Nevilles)
The Delfonics (the Harts)
Sisters Love
The JBs (Melvin and Maceo Parker)
For Sly & The Family Stone, it was the Stewart Brothers & sister (Koolchris just said 'brothers')
Scott Brothers Orchestra (I can't find info on them, but I'm guessing they were really brothers named scott. Backed up Alvin Cash on Keep On Dancin')
I'll add more when I think of them.
Disco Funk
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Baccara were sisters weren't they? The Gibson Brothers. Weren't The Pips cousins?
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i'm in love with disco twin sisters MOKKA !!!!
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No, Baccara weren`t sisters.Originally Written by SandraDee
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I knew I forgot one:
Ingram AKA Philly Cream
Disco Funk
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Nice answers :icon_biggrin: ...... any more ??
I think I'll organize them later into a single list ......
here's one :
The Jones Girls : trio of sisters from Detriot consisting of Brenda, Valorie and Shirley Jones.
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high up where the stallion
meets the sun
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The Barrino Brothers on Invictus Records - 3 brothers uncles to Fantasia.
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I think Patrick Adams & Christine Wilshire are/were a married couple.
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Susan and james wells.
I wonder if Quinny ever had any children that ever lived?.
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T-Connection
Group members included brothers Theo and Kirk Coakley, Dave Mackey and Tony Flowers.
only four guys made all that racket !! :icon_cool:
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Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
A pair of Haitians in the Bronx, Stony Browder Jr. and his brother Thomas (who renamed himself August Darnell), formed Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band in 1974 with singer Cory Daye as the centerpiece (plus Andy Hernandez)
from Salon
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That's funny 'cos everyone always says that Kid Creole's real name is August Darnell but even that isn't his real name!:icon_lol:
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Doing a bit of research on an album I picked up at the weekend -
Three Ounces of Love - were sisters out of Chicago. two tracks of note were Disco Man & Star Love. Recorded on the Motown label.
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