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Process & the Doo Rags started when Rick James enlisted his back-up singer James Bunty Hawkins (aka Process), the brother of the funk legend s guitarist and musical director Kenny Hawkins. He wanted to begin preparing some of his male backup singers to form a stand-alone act, much like the Mary Jane Girls. James and Kenny picked out Stacey Wave Lattimore, Henry Gumps Graham, Dennis Shorty Andrews and Michael Smooth Gibson and Process and the Doo Rags were born. The group was almost a quartet. Over 400 singers auditioned for the group and Lattimore, Graham and Gibson were picked to join the brothers Hawkins. Then Andrews asked for a late audition. I'm a little guy," Andrews said at the time. But I have a big voice." And he was in. The group travelled extensively and released in 1987 their second album, Colorful Changes. I Promise to Remember, a cover of a Frankie Lymon& the Teenagers 1950s doo-wop song was the first single and reached number 80 in the Billboard Hot Black Single chart. The follow-up single, "Call Me Up" peaked at #71 on Billboard's Hot Black Singles chart, staying there for 6 weeks and #38 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music\Club Play chart in October of 1987. One part of the album was produced by James in Buffalo, with the Stone City Band providing backup. The other was produced in Boston by the Aleem Brothers, twins Tunde-Ra and Taharqa, who were also Rick James associates. Although their second album was a modest success it is now highly in demand with record collectors. Their harmonies can still be heard backing up Rick James on several of his albums like Reflections, Glow, Freak Flag and Wonderful. So in spite of rave reviews, Process and the Doo Rags were nearly relegated to the rare and obscure music files. But after an absence of over 20 years, three of the four surviving members reunited in 2013 to record No Age in Love with Hall of Fame member Tom Lorentz for the theme song for the Special Olympics at the University at Buffalo. Lattimore died in 1996, and Process lives in Atlanta these days, but Kenny Hawkins reunited Graham, Andrews and Gibson with Diggs, along with legendary bass player, Jerry Livingston and piano player Bobby Jones, for the Lorentz recording and performances. The event was spectacular and I will forever be grateful for this experience, said Lorentz. They are colorful, talented, controversial, trend setting, demanding with attitude ... every ingredient needed to be a true artist. And now, with their induction into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame, their place in history is assured.