The Parliaments were a doo-wop quintet from Plainfield, New Jersey, formed in the back room of a barbershop in the late 1950s and named after the cigarette brand. After some early personnel changes their lineup solidified with George Clinton, Ray Davis, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas. Clinton was group leader and manager, and part owner of the barbershop where the group convened to entertain customers.

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  • The Parliaments were a doo-wop quintet from Plainfield, New Jersey, formed in the back room of a barbershop in the late 1950s and named after the cigarette brand. After some early personnel changes their lineup solidified with George Clinton, Ray Davis, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas. Clinton was group leader and manager, and part owner of the barbershop where the group convened to entertain customers. The group was originally based on Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, but by the 1960s had developed a unique sound based on emerging styles of soul and funk music, with a notable penchant for bizarre lyrics. The group struggled for hits during most of the 1960s, recording singles on a variety of small record labels. They switched labels many times, and released several double-sided singles without success, including "Poor Willie", "Lonely Island" (for Flipp) and "Heart Trouble" on Golden World Records. Eventually, Clinton gained employment at Motown Records as a songwriter and producer, making weekly trips to Detroit to produce for The Pets, Roy Handy, and other acts. In 1967 the Parliaments released "(I Wanna) Testify" on Revilot and finally achieved a hit single, with the song reaching #3 R&B and #20 Pop on the Billboard charts. In reality, Clinton was the only member of the Parliaments to appear in the song, as the other members were unable to travel to Detroit for the recording session (session singers and musicians rounded out the recording). To capitalize on the single's success, Clinton put together a backing band for a tour, expanding the Parliaments to the five singers plus five backing musicians. After the success of "(I Wanna) Testify", Clinton became embroiled in a contractual dispute surrounding the bankruptcy of Revilot Records and temporarily lost the rights to the name "The Parliaments. " In order to continue recording for other labels, Clinton renamed the entire ensemble Funkadelic (a name coined by bassist Billy Bass Nelson), which Clinton positioned as a funk-rock band featuring the five backing musicians with the five Parliaments singers as uncredited guests. When Revilot declared bankruptcy the Parliaments were sold to Atlantic Records, and Clinton abandoned doo-wop to avoid working for Atlantic. Even with Funkadelic operating as a recording and touring entity, in 1970 Clinton relaunched the Parliaments as a new R&B-based funk band, now known as Parliament. The lineup still consisted of the five original singers plus the five backing musicians, with the two acts signed to different labels and marketed as performing different types of funk. Several songs from the early repertoire of the Parliaments would be re-recorded on future Parliament and Funkadelic albums, including "Testify", "The Goose", "All Your Goodies Are Gone", "Fantasy Is Reality", "Good Ole Music", "I Can Feel The Ice Melting", "What You Been Growing", "I'll Wait", and "That Was My Girl". In 1995, many of the original Parliaments tracks were reissued on the Goldmine/Soul label as the album Testifyin'.
  • The Parliaments était un quintet de doo-wop originaire de Plainfield, New Jersey. Ils répétaient dans l'arrière boutique d'un coiffeur.
  • The Parliaments (nome cambiato successivamente in Parliament soltanto) era il nome di complesso vocale in origine Doo Wop di Plainfield nel New Jersey. Si trattava di un quintetto formatosi intorno al negozio di barbiere di George Clinton, ed oltre a lui comprendeva: Stingray Davis Fuzzy Haskins Calvin Simon Grady Thomas Il gruppo si ispirava a Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers ma creò rapidamente delle sonorità proprie e testi ancora più singolari e bizzarri. Mentre Clinton, il leader della formazione, si recava regolarmente a Detroit nel Michigan per curare la produzione di altri artisti come i The Pets e Roy Handy, i Parliaments attraversarono numerosi cambi di etichetta, facendo uscire senza grande successo diversi EP, "Poor Willy/Party Boys", "Lonely Island/Cry For Flip" e "Heart Trouble/That Was My Girl". Nel 1967 i Parliaments pubblicarono, presso la casa discografica Revilot, "I Wanna Testify" che raggiunse la posizione #3 nella classifica R&B e la #20 in quella Pop delle Billboard Music Charts. A questa affermazione seguì nel 1968 un contenzioso con la Revilot quindi la scelta da parte di Clinton di rinominare il gruppo Funkadelic (un nome che esprimeva in maniera chiara l'orientamento del complesso verso un suono funky e alludeva al popolare genere della musica psichedelica), e renderne membri effettivi i musicisti, che fino ad allora si limitavano ad accompagnare i Parliaments, tra cui emergeva Billy Bass Nelson. Quando la Revilot dichiarò bancarotta, i diritti sui Parliaments furono acquistati dalla Atlantic Records ma Clinton preferì abbandonare il Doo Wop anche per non dover lavorare con la stessa Atlantic. I Funkadelic ed i Parliament, ovvero la band gemella presto affiancatasi divennero in seguito gruppi fondamentali per il Funk. Nel 1995 molte delle tracce dei Parliaments uscirono sull'album Testifyin' pubblicato dalla Goldmine/Soul.
  • ザ・パーラメンツ (The Parliaments) は、1955年にジョージ・クリントンが結成した、アメリカ合衆国ニュージャージー州プレインフィールド出身のドゥーワップグループ。ファンカデリック、パーラメントの前身となったグループである。詳しくはPファンクを参照のこと。
  • The Parliaments foi um quinteto doo-wop de Plainfield (Nova Jérsei) surgido nos anos 1950. Constituído por George Clinton, Ray Davis, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, e Grady Thomas.
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  • The Parliaments were a doo-wop quintet from Plainfield, New Jersey, formed in the back room of a barbershop in the late 1950s and named after the cigarette brand. After some early personnel changes their lineup solidified with George Clinton, Ray Davis, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas. Clinton was group leader and manager, and part owner of the barbershop where the group convened to entertain customers.
  • The Parliaments était un quintet de doo-wop originaire de Plainfield, New Jersey. Ils répétaient dans l'arrière boutique d'un coiffeur.
  • The Parliaments (nome cambiato successivamente in Parliament soltanto) era il nome di complesso vocale in origine Doo Wop di Plainfield nel New Jersey. Si trattava di un quintetto formatosi intorno al negozio di barbiere di George Clinton, ed oltre a lui comprendeva: Stingray Davis Fuzzy Haskins Calvin Simon Grady Thomas Il gruppo si ispirava a Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers ma creò rapidamente delle sonorità proprie e testi ancora più singolari e bizzarri.
  • ザ・パーラメンツ (The Parliaments) は、1955年にジョージ・クリントンが結成した、アメリカ合衆国ニュージャージー州プレインフィールド出身のドゥーワップグループ。ファンカデリック、パーラメントの前身となったグループである。詳しくはPファンクを参照のこと。
  • The Parliaments foi um quinteto doo-wop de Plainfield (Nova Jérsei) surgido nos anos 1950. Constituído por George Clinton, Ray Davis, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, e Grady Thomas.
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