to the other gentleman, joe blunt joe coleman and glen leonard, glen formerly with the temptations, when were you with the temptations. >> 1975 to 84. >> good long time. >> joe with platters. >> 1988 through 2004. >> all right and joe. >> drifters 1975 to 85. >> all right so how did you all get together and start singing together? because you perform all over the place and here is the great thing you get to hear hits from all those groups in this one show what brought you all together. >> we grew up together here in washington dc and we all split up, eventually and went off in different directions we signed with the group true reflection. we went off with the other groups and came back together we've kind of come full circle. >> talk about having grown up in washington the song you are doing for us joe coleman you wrote the song. >> i was contacted by a gentleman the executive director of aclu and he asked me to write this song i contacted my friend and we put it together stand up for dc. >> it is about dc rights and dc achieving voting rights because you all grew up here something you all feel strongly about. >> absolutely. >> very good well, you are going