BILLY STEWART - Summertime (LP)

BILLY STEWART ‎– Summertime¿

LCS 4001¿
Chess¿1967¿
SA¿

Sleeve : VG+¿
Media : VG/ VG+¿¿

Original album title was 'Unbelievable' but was reissued a year later as 'Summertime' after the song became a hit.¿
Stewart was 12 years old when he began singing with his younger brothers Johnny, James, and Frank as The 4 Stewart Brothers, and later went on to get their own radio show every Sunday for five years at WUST-AM in Washington, D.C. He was a graduate of Armstrong High School.
Stewart made the transition to secular music by filling in occasionally for The Rainbows, a D.C. area vocal group led by the future soul star, Don Covay. It was through The Rainbows that Stewart met another aspiring singer, Marvin Gaye. Rock and roller Bo Diddley has been credited with discovering Stewart playing piano in Washington, D.C. in 1956 and inviting him to be one of his backup musicians.¿
Stewart died in a broad-daylight car accident in January 1970, just two months prior to his 33rd birthday.