Jerome Ramos John Cheatdom Marvin Holland Sammy Gardner Kenneth Walker Donald Haywoode John Pearson Charles Moffitt Calvin McClean Troy Keyes Richard Pitts
The Fantastics
Also known as
The Fabulous Temptations
Origin
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Genres
Doo-wop, pop
Years active
1968–late 1980s
Labels
MGM, Deram, Bell
Past members
Jerome Ramos John Cheatdom Donald Haywoode Richard Pitts Elvin Hayes Emma St. John
The Velours were an American R&B vocal group. who had two minor pop hits in the US in the late 1950s, "Can I Come Over Tonight" and "Remember". They relocated to England in the late 1960s, changed their name to The Fantastics, and had a top ten hit in the UK in 1971 with "Something Old, Something New", followed by a minor US hit with "(Love Me) Love the Life I Lead".
TheVelours were an American R&B vocal group. who had two minor pop hits in the US in the late 1950s, "Can I Come Over Tonight" and "Remember". They relocated...
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Little Girl in Blue Velvet (French: La petite fille en velours bleu) is a 1978 French drama film written and directed by Alan Bridges and starring Michel...
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Velour, occasionally velours, is a plush, knitted fabric or textile similar to velvet or velveteen. It can be made from polyester, spandex, or cotton...
Canada and the American Sirius Satellite Radio, using the same format as the RockDétente stations but branded as RockVelours ("Velvet Rock"). The channel...
Alaina "Tiny" Reed and Marty Kralik formed "TheVelours". In February 1967. They began playing continuously, at the Kove in Kent, Ohio 5 nights a week until...
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Catch a Spy (1971), The Love Ban (1973), Moments (1974), La petite fille en velours bleu (1978), The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980), the television miniseries...
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Linen (/ˈlɪnən/) is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is very strong and absorbent and dries faster than cotton. Because of these...
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Masque de velours". Les Secrets de l'Histoire (softcover) (in French). Paris: Flammarion. pp. 5–13. Carey, Edith F. (1924) [1st pub. 1904]. The Channel...
Denim is a sturdy cotton warp-faced textile in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads. This twill weave produces a diagonal ribbing that...
during the latter half of the 1800s. The all-cotton fabric is widely used for trousers, referred to as chinos. The original khaki (light brown) is the traditional...
Polyester is a category of polymers that contain the ester functional group in every repeat unit of their main chain. As a specific material, it most...
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1958 by chemist Joseph Shivers at DuPont. The name spandex, which is an anagram of the word "expands", is the preferred name in North America. In continental...
different fabric types, etc. At first, the word "textiles" only referred to woven fabrics.: 3 : 5 However, weaving is not the only manufacturing method, and...
weather. The word originates from the Persian words شیر shîr and شکر shakar, literally meaning "milk and sugar", from the gritty texture ("sugar") on the otherwise...
its name from the city of Mosul, Iraq, however, originally it comes from Dhaki. The 16th-century English traveller Ralph Fitch lauded the muslin he saw...
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