The Ink Spots

Intro

• The Ink Spots were an American group in the 1930s and 1940s. (The original group)
• The music genre was the blues.

The Beginning

• The Ink Spots Started in the early 1930s in Indianapolis.
• The founding members were Orville Jones, Ivory Watson, Jerry Daniels, and Charlie Fuqua.
• Orville played the cello and sang base.
• Ivory played the tenor guitar and sang tenor.
• Jerry sang tenor and played guitar.
• Charlie sang baritone and played guitar too.

The ink spots become big

• Jerry Daniels leaves.
• Bill Kenny Joins.
• In 1939 The Ink Spots started to become well known music artists.
• Their first hit Single was "If I Didn't Care" in 1939, it became second the biggest single at the time.
• The Ink Spot had many other hit pop singles that year like"You Bring Me Down", "Address Unknown"," My Prayer" and "Bless You".

More Success

• In the early 1940s, the Ink Spots became even more successful.
• Through 1940 and 1944 they had many hit singles.
• They had 10 songs in the top 10 and multiple songs in the top 50

The Downfall

• At the end of 1944 things became bad.
• Charlie Fuqua was drafted to the army and was replaced by Bernie Mackey.
• Orville Jones died in October in New York.
• Bill Kenny and Ivory Watson were not getting along.
• This made the Ink Spots never the same.

The End

• Everybody from the group split up and made their own group.
• This ended the original Ink Spots.

Credits!

• Information from:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ink_Spots