[1] Starting in the late 1950s, he was a founding member of doo wop vocal group The Parliaments, led by George Clinton.
The group originated as a barbershop quintet in the back room of a barber shop on West 3rd Street in Plainfield, New Jersey.
They started traveling to Detroit, Michigan on weekends in order to audition for Motown Records and to participate in the fertile music scene there [citation needed].
The song was actually recorded by George Clinton and a group called The Holidays, as the other Parliaments didn't make it to Detroit that week.
Due to the contractual issues surrounding the group name, Clinton signed the band as Funkadelic to Westbound Records.
Clinton also renamed his group of singers Parliament (but still with the Funkadelic musicians as official members) and signed that act to the Holland-Dozier-Holland-owned record label, Invictus.
In June 1977 at the height of P-Funk's popularity, Haskins (along with other original Parliaments Calvin Simon and Grady Thomas) left the ensemble over financial and management disputes with Clinton.
In 1981, Haskins, Simon, and Thomas formed a new funk band using the name Funkadelic, appeared on Soul Train under that name, and released the album, Connections & Disconnections.