Larry Banks

Larry Banks was a New York-born baritone/bass singer (and songwriter) who helped organize and lead the Four Fellows, an R&B quartet that also featured Davey Jones (first tenor), Jim McGowan (second tenor), and Teddy Williams (bass), in 1954. They survived well enough, even making some television appearances, and scored a hit with "Soldier Boy," authored by Jones. By the early 1960's, Banks had begun to concentrate on the career of his wife Toni -- working as Bessie Banks -- and provided her with a song, "Go Now" and got her a contract with Leiber & Stoller's Tiger Records, whi...