Vivian Delores Dorsey was born January 23, 1928 in Detroit, Michigan to parents DockT. Davis and Georgia Ann Davis. Vivian grew up in a musically involved household with five sisters and three brothers.She played the piano and sang alto in Northern High School Choir and the RobertNolan Choir. Robert Nolan was the family piano teacher and the family vocalaccompanist...
Frank Newby was born on August 5, 1916 in Jones County, Georgia to Cuyler Newby and Ada Jessie Billingslea Newby. His father was a sharecropper in Georgia and a factory maintenance worker in Detroit. His mother taught school, worked in a cannery, and looked after her family of ten children.
Frank was a WWII army veteran and a longtime...