The Secret History Of Chicago Music - June 2025 - The Radiants

The Secret History Of Chicago Music has a new addition, link follows below

'The Radiants helped drive the shift from doo-wop to soul

Despite some minor hits in the 1960s, this Chicago vocal group couldn’t ride the wave they’d helped create.

Chicago’s famed soul-music scene produced beloved groups (the Impressions, the Chi-Lites) and legendary labels (Chess, Vee-Jay), and that’s reason enough to remember soul’s roots in doo-wop. Doo-wop hasn’t aged as well as soul—it hasn’t produced an answer to neosoul, for instance'

https://chicagoreader.com/category/music/the-secret-history-of-chicago-music/