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songwriting trio) and Sanders' neighbour James Ellis. When Holland was unable to attend rehearsals because of his commitments to the fledgling Motown label, the group instead recruited songwriter Chico Leverett (who recorded a solo single for Motown entitled "Solid Sender" in early 1959) and signed
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Leverett left the Satintones in 1961, and the group never found a replacement songwriter. They recorded two more singles for Motown before disbanding at the end of 1961. The group recorded a large amount of unreleased material in preparation for a proposed
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The group recorded several more singles for Motown, the most notorious of which, a song entitled "Tomorrow and Always", was withdrawn for legal reasons, owing to a copyright infringement suit which alleged the song was too similar to
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by three months. Their first record, "Going To The Hop" b/w "Motor City", was not a success, although group members later claimed the title of the B-side led to Gordy adopting the name "Motown" a few months later.
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Chico Leverett died on December 5, 2013, aged 79. Bateman died on October 12, 2016, at the age of 80, from a heart attack. Coincidentally, Sonny Sanders also died on the same day.
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When Tamla Records (the precursor of what is now known as "Motown") was founded in January 1959, Sanders and Bateman were working for the label's owner
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group who recorded together in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They are notable as the first group ever to record for the
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Robert Bateman went on to form a songwriting and production partnership with Brian Holland (under the name
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which never materialised; these recordings were finally released on CD in 2009 as part of
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The Satintones were the first group to record a single for Motown, beating out
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as backing singers. They tried to form a new vocal group of their own with
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The Satintones Sing! The Complete Tamla and Motown Singles Plus
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The Satintones Sing! The Complete Tamla and Motown Singles
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The original members were Charles "Chico" Leverett,
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Index

Satintones
R&B
Motown
Sonny Sanders
Robert Bateman
Berry Gordy
Brian Holland
Holland-Dozier-Holland
Smokey Robinson
the Miracles
the Shirelles
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
LP
Ian Levine
Motorcity Records
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart






Colin Larkin
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music
Virgin Books
ISBN
1-85227-937-0
"The Satintones | Biography & History"
AllMusic
"The Satintones"

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