Jimmy Ellis

The Trammps formed in Philadelphia in 1972. Much of their sound was defined by the powerful and unmistakable voice of Jimmy Ellis. The group reached #17 on the R&B chart with an unlikely, though remarkable, cover of “Zing Went the Strings of My Heart” – a song originally recorded by Judy Garland in 1943. The group found true success, however, when they made the move to Atlantic Records and became one of the label’s hottest disco acts. Songs like “Disco Party”, “The Night the Lights Went Out” and “Soul Bones” keot them in the charts. But it was their 1977 hit song “Disco Inferno” that propelled them into supergroup status; landing them a Grammy in 1979, after the song was feature in 2001: A Space Odessey. Jimmy’s voice can still be heard over that driving beat at clubs and parties everywhere at any given time.