So, then, would a Kingsmen-style group be successful today?

That was the question that inspired the ideas set forth in my previous post. So maybe I'd better answer that question, hm?

Of course, it depends on what one means by "Kingsmen-style".

If by that you mean would that group be as successful as the present Kingsmen, check out the present Kingsmen, and answer it for yourself.

If rather you mean as successful as the Kingsmen of the 1980s, it depends.

The success of that group was a function of the time and place that group was in...and since that time and place was roughly 25 years ago, that's kind of hard to say now.

That group's success was also a product of the type of singers it had...and the creative energy of its' driving force, lead singer Jim Hamill.

So if one could somehow find a Hamill-like leader, or hit on the right combination of people and tastes that would duplicate that exact period in time to the extent that that kind of singing would produce the same reaction now as then, then possibly.

But since Hamill was arguably "one of a kind", as were his cohorts, it would seem doubtful that those days could be "recreated", glorious as though they may have been.

Thank God though, for recordings!:-)

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