The 5 Quails-It's Been A Long Time

The 5 Quails, were a group signed to the Harvey label in 1962-63, i really dont know much about them, except thier lead singer was names Charlie Robinson (no relation to Smokey) here i play thier second single "It's Been A Long Time" from 1962 the song was covered by The Elgins in 1967

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• Motown
• Soul

[BKagent22]

Harold Sudberry sang lead and wrote the song

[MotownMaster]

@BKagent22 ah that why as writes it says (Fuqua-Quails) as the writers of the song, i love this song

[ses0016]

One of the group members, Billy Strawbridge, is my grandfather and you are incorrect, the lead singer was not Charlie Robinson.

[MotownMaster]

@ses0016 cool, thanks for shedding some light on them for me

[MotownMaster]

The Elgins version is ok, a remake is never better than the original

[Caskchap]

Brilliant and better than the very good Elgins version in my opinion.

[ggkolar]

Thank you this is the one and only!Oh yea!

[doowopman49]

TERRIFIC........WHEW! TOM D. BRICK,NJ. {AT THE SHORE}.

[MICKEYSMONKEY]

@ses0016 HEY HOMEY....Art Kirkpatrick is my fathers brothers son....we all lived together on 63rd central, cleve/oh....i was a kid watching them practice sometimes

......small world huh.....ps my name is Mike Kirkpatrick

they also cut "Got to get to school on time".....wow.....what great memories.

[perham87]

Wonderful lead singer and background vocal performance on this one! I love The Elgins' recording, but they couldn't beat the original. Especially like how the lead singer phrases "Ye-he-heh" in the chorus.

[fernc92]

This song is an effin' KILLER!

[ses0016]

The members were Art Kirkpatrick, Billy Strawbridge, Clarence Williams, Donald Brown, Harold Sudberry, William Fulgham (lead), James Williams.