The staple singers let's do it again

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The staple singers - respect yourself
Who was the lead singer of the staple singers

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Roebuck Staples was born Dec. 28, 1914 in Sunflower County, Miss., raised one of 14 children on Will Dockery’s plantation. His most vivid childhood musical memory was Delta blues great Charley Patton performing at Dockery’s general store.

“He used to sit out there on the grocery store and play and entertain all of the people on a Saturday. Everybody’d go up to the big store when he’d play,” Staples told me a few years before he died. He picked up what he could from Patton and from a neighbor closer to his own age, Chester Burnett, the future Howlin' Wolf. Learning from them as well as the Staples family phonograph, stocked with 78s by Blind Lemon Jefferson and other early country bluesmen, Roebuck soon became an accomplished guitarist.

But the rambling bluesman’s life was not for him. He married at 18, giving up blues for gospel music. He and his wife Osceola soon had a daughter, Cleotha, and the young family decided they wanted a better life than plantation sharecropping. In 1935, they followed the well-worn path to Chicago, where Roebuck worked in the stockyards.

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Staple Singers - Drew

Roebuck “Pops” Staples, who lived on the Dockery plantation near Drew in the 1920s and ’30s, was the founder of the Staple Singers, one of America’s foremost singing groups. The group included his children Cleotha and Pervis Staples, who were born at Dockery, and Mavis and Yvonne, who were born after the family moved to Chicago in 1936. Among the Staple Singers’ gospel, rhythm & blues, and pop hits were the No. 1 pop records “I’ll Take You There” and “Let’s Do It Again.”

The Staple Singers, who brought messages of love, hope, and peace to audiences for half a century, built their distinctive sound on gospel and blues traditions from the Drew area. Family patriarch Roebuck “Pops” Staples (1914-2000) was born near Winona and around 1923 moved with his parents and siblings to Will Dockery’s plantation near Drew, an important breeding ground for Delta blues. Staples was inspired to take up guitar by local blues artists Charley Patton, Howlin’ Wolf, Dick Bankston, and Jim Holloway, and was soo

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The Staple Singers

"The Staples" redirects here. For other uses, see Staples (disambiguation).

American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group

The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group. Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000), the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha (April 11, 1934 – February 21, 2013),^[1] Pervis (November 18, 1935 – May 6, 2021),^[2]^[3] and Mavis (b. July 10, 1939). Yvonne (October 23, 1937 – April 10, 2018)^[4]^[5] replaced her brother when he was drafted into the U.S. Army, and again in 1970. They are best known for their 1970s hits "Respect Yourself", "I'll Take You There", "If You're Ready (Come Go with Me)", and "Let's Do It Again". While the family name is Staples, the group used "Staple" commercially.

History

First child to Roebuck "Pops" Staples and his wife Oceola Staples, Cleotha was born in Drew, Mississippi, in 1934.^[6] Two years later, Roebuck moved his family from Mississippi to Chicago.