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Tavares

The five-brother singing group Tavares may be best known for such up-tempo hits as the million-selling single Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel, More Than a Woman, and Whodunit, but they first came to national attention with the ballad Check It Out.

Their crisp vocalising and clean-cut, young-men-next-door image made them favourites on TV shows starring Johnny Carson, Mike Douglas, and Dick Clark's ‘American Bandstand’.

In 1974, Tavares also had the first hit version (number one R&B) of She's Gone, written by the then relative unknown duo of Daryl Hall and John Oates. Hall & Oates scored a number seven pop hit with the song in 1976.