Interview With The Spinners Breakin The Barriers Our first name was the Damingos We ended up changing that because Damingos was too close to Flamingos, a popular singing group which still existed at that time
The Flamingos | Members, Songs, Facts | Britannica Ultimately, the musical power of doo-wop has flowed from the original groups through the Motown music of the 1960s and the Philly Sound of the ’70s and continued into the urban contemporary music of the ’90s
History of the Flamingos The Flamingos: Official Website In fall of 1954, the Flamingos met up with Nathaniel “Nate” Nelson, who had been singing with a local unrecorded group called The Velvetones (and happened to be a first cousin to The Orioles’ Sonny Til )