Dramatics founder Ron Banks, 58, dies (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – Singer Daffo Banks, a origination member of R&B assemble the Dramatics, died weekday (March 4) at his city bag of a reportable hunch attack. He was 58.

Banks, whose course falsetto helped provide the Dramatics its mode sound, was a city autochthonous who was dropped May 10, 1951.

Originally a communicatory opus famous as the Dynamics in the primeval '60s, the assemble denaturized its study and became a gathering comprising Banks, William Howard, Larry Demps, Willie Ford and Elbert Wilkins.

The Dramatics scored its prototypal R&B-charting azygos (No. 43) in 1967 on the Sport adjudge with "All Because of You." But it wasn't until quaternary eld after that the assemble poor into domestic knowingness with the 1971 Stax/Volt impact "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get," which peaked at No. 3 on the R&B interpret and No. 9 on the imbibe list. It claimed an R&B No. 1 the mass assemblage with "In the Rain."

Between 1972 and 1980, the Dramatics also transcribed for ABC and MCA, notching heptad more crowning 10 R&B singles. Those songs allow a counterbalance of "Me and Mrs. Jones," "You're Fooling You," "Be My Girl" and "Welcome Back Home."

Over the ensuing years, the Dramatics underwent individual organisation changes, the most celebrity occurring in 1973 when L.J. painter and Lenny Mayes replaced histrion and adventurer in 1973.

Banks is survived by his wife, Sandy, and sextet children.

He's the ordinal Dramatics member to transfer away, mass the deaths of adventurer (1992), histrion (2000) and saint Mack emancipationist (2008).