he met bobby byrd, who i call uncle bobby in georgia.as part of a gospel group gospel star lighters. he came and performed in the boys home. dad was there as an inmate, and then met there. they became friends because in order for dad to be able to get out of that detention home for boys, he needed a homecoming need to do place, so somebody had to take him in a and so uncle bobby talked his mom into taking dad in as a young boy so that he could get out of the detention home that he was in. from that point on the started to make music together and they started off doing gospel music. dad change that a little bit whenever he started bringing in some of his favorite songs of the time, like cal dona and a lot of different songs. back in the day, back in the early 1950's. they begin to start doing r&b as we know it. the first egg hit was please, please, please. ♪ please, please don't go honey, please don't go ♪ ♪ >> from the early 50's on, to the late 1990's, dad always used to be really amazed by how people would be so into him and into his m

he met bobby byrd, who i call on uncle bobby, in georgia. uncle bobby was part of a gospel group.ed in the boys home. they met there and they became friends because in order for dead to be able to get out of that detention -- dad to get out of that detention center for boys, he had to have somewhere to go. bobby talked his mom into taking dad in as a boy so he could get out of the home he was in. from that point on, they started to make music together. they started doing gospel music but dad kind of change that a little bit when he started bringing in some of his favorite songs at that time, ical dona -- like caledonia and a lot of choo choo hoo hoo songs. this is back in the early 1950's. they start to do r&b. the first big hit was "please please, please." >> ♪ please, please ♪ >> ♪ please don't go ♪ >> ♪ honey, please don't go ♪ >> ♪ go ♪ deanna: from the early 50's on, the late 1990's, dad always used to be really amazed by how people would be so into him and into his music. he would be so amazed, especially when he traveled around the country. he would call me sometimes when i