Clyde McPhatter
One of the biggest R&B stars of the genres 50's-60's heyday, tenor Clyde McPhatter got famous as the founder of the Drifters, one of the pionneering early R&B groups, after leaving the Dominoes. In 1954, he left the Drifters, ambitious to pursue his career as a crossover soloist. His debut album "Seven Days" was overshadowed on the pop charts by white acts, but 1956's "Treasure of Love" did well on both the pop and R&B charts, and he managed to become one of the first black artists to relase two LPs in one year on a major label. Plagued by alcoholism, he died of a heart attack in 1972.
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