Early years Fresh from a stint in the
U.S. Army, two friends,
Harvey Fuqua and Bobby Lester, formed a duo in 1949 in
Louisville, Kentucky, United States. In 1951, Fuqua moved to
Cleveland and formed the Crazy Sounds with the singers Danny Coggins and Prentiss Barnes.) reached number nine R&B and number 22 pop; the group was billed as Harvey and the Moonglows. Lester later formed his own Moonglows group. In 1959, he made headlines after he was arrested on a narcotics charge in Beaumont, Texas. He was replaced by Billy McPhatter, son of
Clyde McPhatter. Fuqua performed with Bobby Lester's Moonglows at the
1983 Grammy Awards ceremony, and the group toured as Harvey and the Moonglows until 1986. Bobby Lester, Jr., replaced McPhatter as lead singer of Bobby Lester's Moonglows. They also performed at
Doo Wop 50, where they sang "
Sincerely" and "Ten Commandments of Love". The line-up was Harvey Fuqua, Bruce Martin, Gene Kelley, Peter Crawford, and Gary Rodgers. Billy Johnson died in Los Angeles on April 28, 1987. Gary Rodgers died on June 25, 2005. Gene Kelley died in 2008. Prentiss Barnes and Pete Graves both died in 2006. Fuqua, the last surviving original member of the group, died on July 6, 2010, in Detroit. ==Legacy==