So it took me out of the chitlin' circuit and I was thankful for that.
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Ms. STATON: At that time, I was basically doing chitlin' circuit gigs.
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They'd won an Apollo Theater talent night the previous year and were working the "chitlin circuit" of black clubs when producer Bobby Taylor urged Motown to sign the group.