OTIS WILLIAMS AND THE CHARMS

Chart-topping hits such as “Hearts of Stone” made Otis Williams and the Charms one of the most popular groups of the 1950s. Williams and his bandmates formed the close harmony quintet while still students at Cincinnati’s Withrow High School and released their first recording in 1953. The Doo Wop Hall of Fame inducted Williams (b. 1936) in 2009.

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2021

Inductees

DR. CHARLES FOLD

THE ISLEY BROTHERS

WILLIAM "BOOTSY" COLLINS

PHELPS “CATFISH” COLLINS

SHELDON REYNOLDS

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Shaw Artist Corp. publicity photo, circa 1960-1969. Coutrsy of Archives of African American Music and Culture at Indiana University Bloomington, Jock Hickman Photograph Collection.

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Otis Williams in the studio, circa 1956 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Otis Williams records in circa 1956 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Otis Williams and the Charms Sing Their Greatest Hits, 1988. King Records, KCD-570, courtesy of Discogs