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.

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He was around Memphis, Tennessee, when I was doing my early, early years--you know, doing the Chitlin Circuit gigs and stuff--and I heard his recordings, and every--nobody said anything negative about Milton.

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So it took me out of the chitlin' circuit and I was thankful for that.

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