BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " THE G-CLEFS " WERE AN AMERICAN DOO-WOO GROUP FROM ROXBURY MASSACHUSETTS : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

               BLACK                   SOCIAL               HISTORY                                                                                                                                                                                                           The G-Clefs were an American Doo-Wop group from Roxbury, Massachusetts.

The G-Clefs consisted of four brothers and a fifth member who was a childhood friend. They first began performing locally around 1952.^[1] They scored two Top 40 hits in theUnited States: their 1956 single "Ka-Ding-Dong", featuring Freddy Cannon on guitar, hit #24 on the Billboard Hot 100, and 1961's "I Understand (Just How You Feel)", which uses the melody from "Auld Lang Syne", reached #9.^[2] The latter track reached #17 in the UK Singles Chart in late 1961.^[3]

They continued to play locally in the Boston area into the 2000s.

Members[edit]

• Teddy Scott (born 1936)
• Chris Scott (b. 1937)
• Tim Scott (b. 1938)
• Ilanga Scott (b. 1940)
• Ray Gibson (b. 1937)