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Don't think that this is common knowledge yet ........ Jimmy Ellis of the Trammps passed away in March. http://www.heraldonl...erno-jimmy.html added by site a clip from a news item featured on the Charlotter Observer... the full article can be read here... http://www.charlotte...erno-jimmy.html ROCK HILL James T. "Jimmy" Ellis - who grew up in a shotgun shack on Pond Street in Rock Hill's Crawford Road neighborhood - died Thursday. He was 74... ...Jimmy Ellis, the oldest of six children whose father died when he was just a kid, got his start singing where all black kids did in those days - in church. He and brother Johnny and two other guys sang at dances at St. Mary Catholic Church and other places around Rock Hill and won every talent show in town as the "Four Knights." Ellis formed a band called The Exceptions, then The Trammps in the late 1960s - both based in Philadelphia. "They toured with James Brown; they were all over the place," said Johnny Ellis. And all the while, when not on tour, Jimmy Ellis worked in a meat-packing plant or at a hospital or in a Navy supply depot to make extra money for his wife and two children, Erika and Jimmy II. "It was nothing for my father to finish a tour and to stay busy, work two jobs," his daughter Erika said. "He was always humble. Just a country boy singing music." Read more here: http://www.charlotte...l#storylink=cpy