Jimmy Briscoe, Stanford Stansberry, Kevin Barnes, Maurice Pulley, and Robert Makins were the original Jimmy Briscoe & the Little Beavers. Bobby Finch replaced Makins in 1977. The Jersey City, NJ-based group debuted with Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" on Atlantic Records in the fall of 1971. Paul Kyser, their manager and mentor, produced the side and its flip "Sugar Brown."
Atlantic never issued anything else from them; their follow-up, "Together, Together (We'll Make a Way)," appeared on J City Records the following year. Six well-received release...