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The Righteous Brothers


They weren't really brothers, but Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield were most definitely righteous, defining and perhaps even inspiring the term "blue-eyed Soul" in the mid-'60s.

Bobby Hatfield was born on August 10th, 1940 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and Bill Medley was born on September 19th, the same year in Santa Ana, California. When Medley and Hatfield combined forces in 1962, they emerged from regional groups The Paramours and The Variations.

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In fact, they kept The Paramours billing for their first single. Thinking of a new name, the pair remembered the night they sang in front of a group of U.S. Marines. After their set, one of the Marines shouted out, "That's righteous brothers!" and the name stuck.

For the next couple of years,they did quite a few energetic R&B tunes on the Moonglow label that bore similarity to the Gospel/Soul/Rock style of Ray Charles, gaining their greatest success with "Little Latin Lupe Lu", which made it to #49 on the Bi