Music Deaths: Bill Isles, Co-founder and Singer with O'Jays

BILL ISLES, 78

Died March 25, 2019

Original member and singer with group from Canton, Ohio.    Featured on songs "Lonely Drifter" (#93-1963) and "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)"  (#48-1965) which are long-time Beach Music favorites.  Quit the group in 1965 and was group's tour manager when they had their biggest hits in the early 1970s with "Back Stabbers" and "Love Train" and others.