They also had a hit with the up-tempo song “Surprise party for baby” (1971) in the UK on the Northern Soul scene.
The quintet's members included Don Bradley, Carl Fisher, Dave Govan, James Johnson and Ricky Owens.
25); concurrently, they had a hit under the name The Marathons with "Peanut Butter", a rewritten version of the Olympics' "Hully Gully" with new lyrics by Hidle Brown Barnum and Martin Cooper (No.
Roberts stated: "This track knocks you sideways by the 4th bar and continues to race against time, leaving you collapsed in a heap of delight!".
Owens and the other Vibrations regrouped and continued, eventually becoming a nightclub act in the mid-1970s, before officially dissolving the group in 1976.