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Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers (Robert Edward Taylor) was born on 18 February, 1936 in Canada, is a Soul band from Vancouver, British Columbia. Discover Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 18 February, 1936
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Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers were a Canadian soul band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1934

Bobby Taylor, born Robert Edward Taylor on February 18, 1934, in Washington, D.C., was raised in Washington.

As a young man, he moved to New York City and sang in doo-wop groups with singers who later joined successful acts such as Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers and Little Anthony and the Imperials.

1958

In 1958 he began his music career as a member of The Four Pharaohs, who released a few locally-selling recordings in the Columbus, Ohio area.

1960

In the early 1960s, while they were in San Francisco, Taylor met Little Daddy and the Bachelors, made up of vocalist Tommie Melton, guitarist Tommy Chong, bassist Wes Henderson, pianist Bernie Sneed, and drummer Floyd Sneed (later the drummer for Three Dog Night).

While in Calgary they were known as the Calgary Shades.

The word Shades in the group's name referenced the fact that the band was interracial.

Chong (later famous as one-half of comedy duo Cheech and Chong) is half Chinese.

The other members were Black, white, and Aboriginal.

Taylor was of Black, Puerto Rican, and Native American heritage.

"Little Daddy & The Bachelors" recorded a single, "Too Much Monkey Business" / "Junior's Jerk".

1962

Melton and Chong performed a Vancouver dance hall in 1962 called the Blues Palace, a former movie theatre, opening for Ike & Tina Turner.

Although Little Daddy & The Bachelors built up a small following, things soured when they went with Chong's suggestion and had themselves billed as "Four Niggers and a Chink" —or, bowing to pressure, "Four N's and a C", before taking on The Moniker Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers.

1965

In 1965, Supremes members Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson heard the band—whose repertoire consisted primarily of Motown covers—at the Elegant Parlour in Vancouver, and alerted Motown CEO Berry Gordy Jr. Gordy brought the Vancouvers to Motown Records in Detroit, Michigan, and signed them to his Gordy Records imprint.

By this time the evolving lineup consisted of Taylor, Henderson, and Chong along with guitarist Eddie Patterson, organist Robbie King, and drummer Duris Maxwell (aka Ted Lewis), the latter three having come as a package when the original Vancouvers merged with another local group, the Good Shepherds.

Claims have been made that future star guitarist Jimi Hendrix played with them in those early days, but Chong has been quoted as saying that any such appearance is a product of Taylor's "imagination."

Hendrix and Taylor knew each other from their early days in the Seattle-Tacoma area and Hendrix's summers with his grandmother in Vancouver.

Hendrix later jammed onstage with the Vancouvers in Europe.

The group recorded its debut album, an eponymous release, and their debut single, the Tommy Chong co-composition "Does Your Mama Know About Me," peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #44 in Canada.

1968

The group recorded for the Gordy Records division of Motown Records in 1968, where they had a top 30 hit single, "Does Your Mama Know About Me".

As a producer and solo artist, Bobby Taylor contributed to several other soul recordings, both inside and outside of Motown.

Taylor is most notable for discovering and mentoring The Jackson 5.

Tommy Chong was a member of Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers before he became famous as a comedian.

For a July, 1968, engagement at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers had a local-area family band, The Jackson 5, as their opening act.

Impressed with the group, Taylor personally brought them to Detroit and the Motown offices, arranging an audition for them with Motown executive Suzanne De Passe.

De Passe and Berry Gordy were impressed with the Jacksons, and the group was signed to the label within a year.

They released two further singles, "I Am Your Man," (US #85, US R&B #40, Can. #80) produced by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, and the Smokey Robinson-written and produced "Malinda" (US #48, US R&B #16, Can. #59), which would appear on their 1968 studio album.

The Vancouvers performed in support of Motown artist Chris Clark.

However, Clark and Motown producer Johnny Bristol fired Chong and Henderson for missing a gig to apply for Green cards.

The group broke up shortly afterwards, when Chong attempted to have the Vancouvers' contract halved, so that he, Taylor, and Henderson would constitute the group, while Robbie King, Eddie Patterson, and Ted Lewis would simply be regarded as sidemen and session artists.

Taylor auditioned for the then-vacant lead singer position in The Temptations (following David Ruffin's expulsion from the group), but was turned down.

1969

After the Jackson 5 signed to Motown in March 1969, Taylor became the group's first producer.

He supervised the bulk of their first album, Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, recording the Jacksons on a number of soul covers, including The Miracles' "Who's Lovin' You".

Berry Gordy would later move the group to California and take personal control of their sound.

Although Taylor would briefly join the Jacksons in California, he did not receive credit for working on the group's early singles such as "I Want You Back" and "ABC" alongside Gordy's team known as The Corporation.

In addition to those, he produced most of their covers of older rhythm and blues songs.

As a solo artist, Taylor was shifted to Motown's V.I.P. label and continued as a solo artist.

Although his "Oh, I've Been Blessed" later attained a cult following, Taylor's solo singles failed to sell well.

1971

By 1971, Taylor had departed Motown because of a financial dispute, recording sporadically into the mid-1970s.

Taylor later successfully sued Motown.