Despite having only one Top Ten RB hit, the Ovations were a superb Southern soul trio. The original group featured Louis Williams and made some great ballads that were sung so vividly and produced in such raw fashion that they never reached the wider soul market. Though they reached the RB charts twice during the late '60s (with It's Wonderful to Be in Love and Me and My Imagination), the group eventually disbanded. By 1971, a new trio had resurfaced, with former Nightingales Rochester Neal, Bill Davis, and Quincy Billops, Jr. A remake of Sam Cooke's Having a Party in 1973 gave them their lone Top Ten RB hit. ~ Ron Wynn, Rovi