Black Ivory is the name of an R'n'B group from Harlem, which had a number
of hits in the 1970s, including "Don't Turn Around," "You And I", "I'll
Find A Way ", "Spinning Around", "What Goes Around " and "Will We Ever
Come Together" and "Mainline". The group featured songwriter and prolific
disco producer Leroy Burgess, Stuart Bascombe and Russell Patterson. They
were managed by Patrick Adams, an executive at the Today/Perception record
company. Burgess was the lead voice of the majority of their hits in the
early '70's With Today/Perception being a small label, the promotion of
Black Ivory's singles scarcely got beyond the East Coast. This lack of
exposure, coupled with the rise of disco and the fact that Patrick Adams
was beginning to branch out into other projects, caused Black Ivory to
lose steam. Oddly enough, the group recorded several uptempo songs in the
disco vein ( such as "Big Apple Rock," "Walking Downtown (On A Saturday
Night)", "What Goes Aroun
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