The Stovall Sisters performed and recorded songs in the genre that consisted of a gospel/R&B fusion and maintained a successful career as professional studio and touring backup singers for an impressive list of well-known artists that include The Staple Singers, The Caravans, Bobby Womack & The Womack Brothers, Al Green & The Green Brothers, Ray Charles & The Blind Boys, The Harmonizing Four, The Soul Stirrers, The Salem Travelers, The Pilgrim Jubiees and Sylvester, The Davis Sisters and The Highway Q.C's, B.
King, Big Mama Thornton, Etta James, Jimmy McCracklin, Bobby Bland, Charles Brown, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Earth Wind & Fire, Jackie Wilson, Joe Tex, Joe Simon, Parliament-Funkadelic, Sam Cooke, Cannonball Adley, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Norman Greenbaum.
They also toured with Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson of Sanford & Son and briefly performed as The Ikettes with Ike & Tina Turner,[1] 1967.
Eventually, under contract with Warner/Reprise, they recorded their sole gospel/R&B crossover album, The Stovall Sisters (producer, Erik Jacobsen) which featured "Hang On In There".
The Stovall Sisters went on to record unreleased tracks for an album with Earth, Wind & Fire's Philip Bailey and Maurice White but disbanded before its release.