Roosevelt Nettles

Louisiana native Roosevelt Nettles walked away from a promising recording/entertaining career more than 30 years ago and doesn't really know why. He grew up in New Orleans with seven siblings and sung professionally as a teenager in Mobile, AL, (where his late brother Willie Roy resided); he assembled and blew notes with the Flames, a doo wop group, before joining the Air Force in 1958 where he formed another non-recording group of doo woppers, the Enchanters. A member of Special Forces, Nettles received orders to go to an Air Force base in Chandler, AZ, then a base near Phoen...