A lot of people got turned on to the Ink Spots because of the Fallout games. That's not a bad thing though. As long as this music stays alive and people can keep appreciating it.
I first learned about them from the music at the start of a new season of Better Call Saul. I found them on spotify and instantly was enamoured, to bad so little is documented about them. Although there probably is a warehouse or basement the has a bunch of footage and records about them and I hope I'll be alive by the time all that is found and someone will make a documentary.
Fallout (the original 1997 computer game) turned me onto not only The Ink Spots (the song "Maybe" was used in the game's intro) but to 1940s American music in general. It's practically all I have listened to ever since. The Fallout series has continued to introduce people to music from the period. I think the juxtaposition of the music's optimism and the game's bleak setting are what make the combination so poignant. I've been hooked ever since!
Original Fallout 1997. Installed the game on a PC at work and would play it on Saturdays when I was alone. Fallout was also the reason I truly discovered and appreciated Louis Armstrong. Years later, my wife (without my input) chose “Give me a kiss to build a dream on” as her bridal walk song. What a great song!
I’m older age 80 next birthday and was born when these groups formed and played. Believe you me…it was a different era then with no one throwing rose pedals in their path
Herb actually replaced Cliff Givens, who originally came in following the death of original bass, Hoppy Jones. Nepotism came into play When Bill Kenny insisted that his brother Herb come in to fill the late-Jones' spot.
Nepotism or not, it worked well, and Bill knew it would. Herb was a talented singer in his own right and had an excellent speaking voice and feeling for rhythm and pacing that fit the 'talking bass' part very well.
That doesn't equate with nepotism, though, in this case. You find a job for your brother if he can also sing and you need a bass singer. Nepotism is equated with evil and politics.
For some reason, I thought I'd seen this video before... perhaps due to seeing a bit of it in another video. So, oops, I'm spectacularly late to the party here, but alas. Hearing Herb talk about the Ink Spots is such a fascinating thing, made all the more engaging thanks to his absolutely fantastic speaking voice. He and Bill both wonderful speaking voices, now that I think about it, and spoke very clearly, and with little issue knowing what next to say. Makes listening to them really hook you in. I can't help but ask, of course... what happened to the rest of the interview? He was in the middle of a story, even! Bah.
His older brother towered over him, as he did with them all. Would love to have known both of them but alas, born too late and in a different country. Bother! That's life!!
God bless them. Each and every one was so gifted. And I appreciate Fallout for bringing there music back too the light. Music like this shouldn’t be forgotten.
Jimmy Holmes passed away in 1995. Isaac Royal has been gone for quite awhile (I forget the year). Harold Jackson died just a few years ago... he was in his 100's! Actually, me and several others thought he'd been gone for years so we were shocked to learn that he was still alive. Antoine "Lucky" Leon could still be alive but no one knows. His son contacted me recently... apparently he'd only met his father once or twice. In the 70s or early 80s he was in Hawaii briefly as a member of Stanley Morgan's Ink Spots but that's the most recent update I have on him. I sure wish he was alive and I could meet him. He's become one of my favorites.
I'm try ing to get a hold of we ll meet again by the ink spots does anyone know where I can get it also my favourite ink spots song is I dont want to set the world on fire :)
