Donnie Elbert

Northern Soul legend Donnie Elbert was born May 25, 1935 in New Orleans. His family relocated to Buffalo, New York's east side three years later, and there he learned to play guitar and piano--influenced most profoundly by the Drifters' Clyde McPhatter, Elbert co-founded a doo-wop group called the Vibraharps with friend Danny Cannon in 1955, serving as its guitarist, songwriter and arranger while ...more