Education
Born Alvin Welch in Saint Louis, Missouri, and a graduate of Saint Louis"s Sumner High School (also attended by Luther Ingram, Billy Davis, Junior, and Tina Turner).
Born Alvin Welch in Saint Louis, Missouri, and a graduate of Saint Louis"s Sumner High School (also attended by Luther Ingram, Billy Davis, Junior, and Tina Turner).
Andre Williams, who was the house producer at One-der-ful Records saw them perform as The Crawlers and had them record a tune, "Twine Time," to exploit a popular teen dance that was the rage on the south side of Chicago in late 1963. The "ooh-aah" opening was edited out on some radio stations who thought it too suggestive for their audience. "Twine Time" became popular in the United Kingdom in the Northern soul scene in the 1970s.
The Crawlers name appeared on the two follow-up singles, "The Barracuda" (a national r&b hit in 1965) and "The Penguin," which failed to chart.
He continued performing in the Chicago area into the 1990s, and died from ulcer complications in 1999.