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- ↑ Pruter, Robert (1996). Doowop: The Chicago Scene. University of Illinois Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0252022081.
The four, minus Lee Brown, had attended Blue Island High and had sung in the Passions, a group with female lead Addie Bradley. Record entrepreneur Don Talty discovered the group but wanted only Bradley. He rechristened her Jan ...
- ↑ Pruter, Robert (1992). Chicago Soul. University of Illinois Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0252062599.
Jan Bradley was born Addie Bradley, July 6, 1943, in Byhalia, Mississippi, and at around four years of age moved with her family to ... I was like a sophomore in high school, Blue Island Eisenhower, and I met this group of guys, the Passions
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- 1 2 "Jan Bradley Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography". Music VF. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
