Kell Osborne

Background

Kell Osborne was born in Birmingham, Alabama on March 12, 1939, he was raised by his deeply religious stepfather.

Career

However, he decided to be a singer. In 1957 Waller left the group, and they were reduced to a trio. In 1958 they left Birmingham to break out into the music business.

They settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where Milton Jenkins would become their manager.

Kell signed with Lester Sill and Lee Hazlewood"s Trey label, and Philosophy Spector became his producer. He recorded the songs "Bells Of Street Mary"s", and "That"s Alright Baby".

Atlantic Records picked up the songs for national distribution, they were both a hit in Baltimore, Maryland. Osborne later got out of his contract with the Trey label and signed with Class Records.

There he recorded the songs "Chickadee", "Do You Mind", "Would You Laugh", and "Eye Of The Fire".

In 1963 he signed with Capitol Records, however, he was drafted that year ending hopes of a future with Capitol. In 1965 his draft was up and he got out of the military. Osborne later signed with Warner Brothers

Records.

There he recorded the song "You Cant Outsmart A Woman". That was the only song to come of this record deal and Osborne left Warner Brothers not too long after. The American Broadcasting Company label was interested in Osborne but not Revis, so Osborne got out of his management contract with Revis and signed with Mercury Records.

But he wasn"t very successful there so he left the Mercury label.

In 1995 Osborne left the music business and took a job driving buses in order to keep a stable income. He returned in 2005 releasing an album of new material with some initial interest shown by Universal Records.

Kell Osborne has made many contributions to music over the years. Kell Osbourne died on 29 January 2012.

Membership

They later moved to Detroit, Michigan, not too long after that Jenkins changed the groups name to The Primes, and they got a spin-off group known as The Primettes, members of that group included Diane (later Diana) Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, and Betty McGlown. In 1960 Kell left the group and moved to Los Angeles, California to start a solo career, and as a result the group disbanded, Kendricks, and Williams would go on to become members of The Temptations.

Connections

Friend:

Eddie Kendricks