UNDERAPPRECIATED MUSIC: JAMES & BOBBY PURIFY

 R&B singer James Purify died this past week.  With his cousin Robert Lee Dickey (as "Bobby Purify"), James & Bobby Purify were a popular act from 1965-1971, with their biggest hit "I'm Your Puppet" coming in 1966. Dickey retired in 1971 due to health reason; from then to 1975, James Purify pursued a single career, the united with Ben Moore (as the second "Bobby Purify") through the 1980s.  Moore later retired from the music industry in 1998 after developing severe glaucoma. which blinded him.  Ray Charles convinced Moore to come out of retirement and he released an album as "Bobby Purify" in 2005.  He later joined The Blind Boys of Alabama.

The death of James Purify from complications of Covid-19 hit home here on the Florida Panhandle because he ws a Pensacola native.

Some of their songs:

You Can't Keep a Good Man Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C8jGOVZJ90

Shake a Tail Feather

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-YleM48968

I'm Your Puppet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-YleM48968

Blame Me (Don't Blame My Heart)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFdq9R22qmM

Hitch Hike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyJzMyWj9F4

Morning Glory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrQJacdqFxE

So Many Reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSYWjHSkwo0

Hello There

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVahESap62c

Let Love Come Between Us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVahESap62c

I've Got Everything I Need (I've Got You)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjct22YgLOs

Get Closer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXdImdZBgY

I Don't Want to Have to Wait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Epfkw9DZ6Q

She Ain't Gonna Do Right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvmhDhZbMXw