Tavares Dont Take Away The Music (single edit 1976) Top Pop

Tavares (also known as The Tavares Brothers) is an American R B, funk and soul music group composed of five Cape VerdeanAmerican brothers. Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, they would later move to New Bedford, Massachusetts. Tavares is: Butch Feliciano Tavares, born 18 May 1948. Chubby Antone Lee Tavares, born 2 June 1945. Pooch Arthur Lee Tavares, born 12 November 1943. Ralph Ralph Viera Tavares, born 10 December 1942. Tiny Perry Lee Tavares, born 24 October 1949. 1975 turned out to be their most successful year chartwise, with a Top 40 Pop album (In the City), the No. 25 hit Remember What I Told You to Forget, and their biggest hit, the Top 10 Pop, No. 1 R B smash It Only Takes a Minute, which was later successfully covered by both Jonathan King and Take That, and sampled by Jennifer Lopez. They parlayed this success into a spot as an opening act for The Jackson 5. KC and The Sunshine Band was also on this tour. Minute was followed by a string of hits: Heaven Mus