Lee Williams & The Cymbals

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Discovered while practicing in their backyard of 127th St. in Harlem, NYC by Carnival Records owner Joe Evans, this band was signed on the spot and immediately thrust into the Carnival rotation in Newark, NJ. Their first record was the Ronnie McCoy (of the Topics) penned “She’s So Fine”. This record was primarily an East Coast record, gaining popularity in Philly, Baltimore, and Washington, but also gaining the band some notoriety in Cleveland and Chicago. Although this record did climb the charts, it narrowly missed as a Top 40 hit. McCoy wrote another song for them “Peeping Through the Window”, which didn’t chart as high, but would be their second largest selling record. They would go on to release four more singles for Carnival, including this side. Once again, records like this, without proper promotion would only garner local attention, and would get lost in the sea of 45’s, artists, and hopefuls in NYC and all over the East Coast. They would move from Carnival to small labels like Pittsburgh’s Black Circle (Get It Together) and Rapda (IC Funk was the side on this label), only to fade out into obscurity. But did Lee Williams? Upon digging further into this man’s life, I turned up a bunch of info on Lee Williams and the Spiritual QC’s. A man who very closely resembles Williams is fronting a tight ass Gospel band, and is all over YouTube. If anyone can confirm this, I’d appreciate it. Possibly he had his roots in Gospel, did the secular music thing, and went back to the ro

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albums

Carnival "Soul" Classics, Volume 5

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Underground Oldies, Vol. 1

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Clifton

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Carnival "Soul" Classics, Vol. 2

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Land Of 1000 Dances: Special Soul and Funk Edition

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Carnival "Soul" Classics, Vol. 1

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Lost Soul Treasures (Volume 4)

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Carnival Northern Soul

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Carnival "Soul" Classics, Volume 2

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Land of 1000 Dances: Special Soul & Funk Edition

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Carnival "Soul" Classics, Vol. 3

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Underground Oldies: Vol. 1

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