The Fascinations

The Fascinations were a girl group with a dazzling family tree, a distinctive sound, and a hook-up with one of the great artist-producers of the 1960s -- yet, in one of the great mysteries of the soul music boom of the mid-decade, they never made it in America, but sold lots of records in England. Detroit in the late '50s was a city seething with musical activity -- Robert West's LuPine label, Berry Gordy's embryonic Motown, and the immensely successful VeeJay label were just the tip of a pop culture iceberg. One of the groups trying to get a foothold on success in those days...