Die Today

Motown promoted Today as the new Four Tops in the late '80s, though the group had company. The Boys were pushed as the new Jacksons and the Good Girls the new Supremes. Today and the Boys enjoyed number one R&B hits, while the Good Girls charted with a few singles but never reached the pinnacle. Today -- Frederick Lee "Bubba" Drakeford, Larry Singletary, Wesley Adams, and Larry McCain -- were childhood friends from Englewood, NJ. They formed as the Gents around 1984 and befriended a record company executive at an anti-drug benefit who arranged a meeting with the then virtually...