“We were approached by a couple of Italian guys back in the day,”Cleary remembered.“They said, ‘We want to buy you out,’ but we didn’t want to sell…A couple weeks later, they hit us again, and we said no. A couple weeks after that, we woke up and our stuff was on f...
soulful voice able to mimic the jazz and blues legends of the past. In the late 1970s he became a sensation with “Do You Want to Funk” and “Dance (Disco Heat),” which turned