Jay & the Techniques

Their song "Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie", released in 1967 on the Smash label, reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

[2] Although this song served as the band's primary hit, the group also captured various chart positions with "Keep the Ball Rollin'" (No.

[3] "Keep the Ball Rollin'" also notched up sales in excess of a million copies, to secure a second gold disc for this group.

[3] "Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie" and "Baby Make Your Own Sweet Music" (the latter a cover of a single first released in 1967 by Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon) were both released in the UK by Mercury Records and, whilst neither song charted in the UK, in the early 1970s both songs became dance favourites of the British Northern soul music scene.

[citation needed] The band was multiracial, Proctor and George (Lucky) Lloyd being the only African-Americans in the group.