James & Bobby Purify

A pair of cousins, James Purify and Robert Lee Dickey, joined forces in 1965 for some classic Southern soul duets during the mid-'60s. Producer Papa Don Schroeder brought the soulful Floridians to Muscle Shoals in 1966 to record at Rick Hall's FAME Studios, and the result was the gorgeous midtempo "I'm Your Puppet." The Dan Penn/Spooner Oldham ballad, released on New York's Bell Records in 1966, reached number six on their charts, becoming their biggest hit. The following year, both a revival of the Five Du-Tones' "Shake a Tail Feather" and "Let Love Come Between Us" joined th...