Nolan Strong and The Diablos : Mind Over Matter , 1962 Fortune Records

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This is a 1962 Detroit CLASSIC! "Mind Over Matter" by Nolan Strong & the Diablos!
Chuck Chittenden on lead guitar!
The Temptations covered "Mind Over Matter" under the band name "The Pirates," Berry Gordy's idea!


Nolan Strong and the Diablos were the biggest pre-Motown R&B group in the Motor City. The group was also known for the 1954 doo-wop classic, "The Wind" ...
REMEMBER NOLAN STRONG!
1934-1977

more on Nolan Strong:

Nolan Strong & The Diablos were an R&B and doo-wop vocal group best know for its hit songs "The Wind" and "Mind Over Matter." The group recorded for Fortune Records, a small label in Detroit starting in the the 1950s.

Nolan Strong, the lead vocalist, had an etherially high, strong tenor voice. Strong's smooth tenor, influenced mainly by Clyde McPhatter, in turn, was a primary influence on a young Smokey Robinson.

The Diablos were inducted into the United In Group Harmony Hall of Fame in 2003. In March 2008 the group was inducted into the Doo-Wopp Hall Of Fame Of America.

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[tonyonallen]

Longshot, WKNR DID NOT come onn tilHalloween 1963.

[DennisDebbaudt]

I love John Fraga's bass line!

[18roger1986]

LOVE THIS from my high school dayz.

[Longshotsblues]

Man I forgot about this song altogether. Why I have no idea. I was 5 years old when the song came out and both Keener WKNR & CKLW played it all day and night. It's good to hear it again...Wow the memories it brings back.

Thanks for posting it and reminding me how good it was and still is.

[59jimkay]

I'll tell ya what...the 'best' guitar I heard from that period! Wow! This cat is "boss" man!!

Milwaukee Jim

[MattJZ]

thanks, as always, BobSeger1981.

[dkerry52421]

Maybe the best oldies song of all time. I was a soph. in High School in Detroit in 1962 and when this song came out I bought the 45. My buddy and I drove around in my car (I had a record player in the car) and he must have played that song over and over for three straight hours and damn near wore out the record. Those were the best times ever to be a teen, growing up in Detroit and listening to the best music of any era.

[kcarpenter17]

So so good.

[OdysseyLoungeA2]

@OdysseyLoungeA2 : Today (August 28, 2011), Johnny Bee Badanjek confirmed (via Facebook) that the original bass player for THE ROCKETS, John Fraga did, indeed, play bass on the 1962 recording of this tune...

[jobbu42]

Boy this is crude, But you just cannot listen to it and sit still. Great one.