The Snake - The Vesparados - (Cover Of The Northern Classic By 3pcs Mod Band)

The Snake - The Vesparados... One Lead Guitar, One Bass Guitar, One Drums Kit, And Three R&B Loving Working Class Guys. With No Backing Tracks Or Synthesizers...

1968 R&B smash "The Snake" (U.S. #27),which has been very popular on the Northern Soul music circuit in the UK; it also provided Wilson with his only British chart hit, reaching number 41 in 1975.

Allen LaMar Wilson (June 19, 1939 April 21, 2008) was an American soul singer best known for the hit song "Show and Tell".Wilson was born in Meridian, Mississippi. He showed little interest in education but performed in school plays, sung in talent shows and won first prize in a local art contest. Wilson began his career at the age of 12 leading his own spiritual quartet and singing in the church choir, even performing covers of country and western hits as circumstances dictated. While he was in high school, Wilson and his family relocated to San Bernardino, California, where he worked odd jobs as a mail carrier, a janitor, and an office clerk, in addition to teaching himself to play drums; after graduation he spent four years touring with Johnny Harris and the Statesmen before joining the U.S. Navy and singing with an enlisted men's chorus. He also developed his stand up comedy routine to fall back on in case he didn't make it as a singer.

Wilson died April 21, 2008 of kidney failure, in Fontana, California at the age of 68.

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Music

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• northern
• soul
• mods

[venusclare]

Excellant!!!....love all the info as well!

[scooterclubmadrid]

Al Wilson? je je je... keep the faith