The whole World Is A Stage
You Gave Me Something - 1967 - Ric Tic
I've Got To Have You/ Win or Lose(Ric-Tic 139)
I LOVE YOU MADLY - 1968 Ric Tic
Just Another Lonely Night (Motown)
Baby Make Your Own Sweet Music - Minit 1968
Something Old Something New 1970
In 1965 they formed in Detroit. 'Sweet' James Epps, Robert and Joseph Pruitt, and Toby Childs, the original members. Childs and Robert Pruitt later departed, and were replaced by Cleveland Horne and Ernest Newsome.
Their first single on Ric-Tic, 'The Whole World Is a Stage,' was a hit on the R&&B USA charts in 1967 and 'You Gave Me Something (And Everything's Alright)' was too. Motown purchased Ric-Tic, for lots of reasons including signing up Edwin Starr, who was another Ric Tic Success (Berry Gordy was concerned about another soul record company starting up in the same town).
They had another hit with 'I Love You Madly' which was also a hit at Manchester Soul Clubs. In 1990 they released 'Working on a Building of Love'for Ian Levine's Motorcity label.
Question: Same group as the Fantastics? If they were, then the track 'Baby Make Your Own Sweet Music' was their most popular single on the Manchester soul scene. Did they tour as the Fantastics / and then as The Drifters before they slightly changed their name?