Detroit deejay LeBaron Taylor was his conduit to a solo contract. And I came up with 'Agent Double-O Soul.'”Doggett wasn't interested in recording it with Edwin, so the young singer quit. "I watched the movie like three times, and then I went back to my hotel room, and was sitting there contemplating on the idea of what the movie was all about and trying to figure out how to incorporate that into a song. "The movie just happened to be 'Agent 007,' you know, the James Bond movie,” he said.
While in New York with Doggett, Edwin went to the movies on his day off and found the inspiration for his first hit. So I got a chance to get my road experience by traveling with Bill for two-and-half-years.” "It was less money than I was actually making,”said the late Starr, "but it was a lot more experience. Bill Doggett's manager, Don Briggs, saw Edwin with them and offered him a gig singing with the organist's combo. Ric-Tic boasted a singer in Edwin Starr whose pipes were powerful enough to knock down the walls of any recording studio.īorn Charles Edwin Hatcher in Nashville on January 21, 1942, Starr grew up in Cleveland and sang with a vocal group, The Future Tones, from 1955 to 1960. Big Ed Wingate's Ric-Tic label released great records that sounded a lot like what was going on over at Hitsville U.S.A.-which makes sense, since various moonlighting Funk Brothers often played on them. Motown wasn't the only label in Detroit pumping out mid-'60s hits.
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