The Five Discs

Like many street-corner vocal groups who came from Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy section in the early '50s, the Five Discs had limited chart success ("Never Let You Go" instantly won Murray the K's Record of the Night and Record of the Week contests on WINS and charted at number 28 on the local New York charts, but not nationally). Their career was unfortunately mired by a series of revolving-door personnel changes, poor label promotion of their singles, and bad luck, but they managed to last for four decades and outlive many of their more successful neighborhood contemporaries. In 195...