Whitfield would use the film to launch his new group and began composing music based on script outlines. Schultz offered Whitfield the opportunity to score his next picture, Car Wash. The original band line-up, now complete, prepared their debut album.ĭuring this time, Whitfield was contacted by film director Michael Schultz, fresh from the success of his first feature, Cooley High. In Dickey, Whitfield found the ingredient he felt was missing in Magic Wand: a charismatic female singer.

Harris informed Whitfield of his discovery and Dickey was flown to Los Angeles to audition. During a tour stop in Miami, Undisputed Truth leader Joe Harris noticed a singer named Gwen Dickey, then a member of a local group called The Jewels. The group, now called Magic Wand, began working with Yvonne Fair and became the studio and concert band for The Undisputed Truth. octet under his wing and signed them to his label. Whitfield, after a decade at Motown, wanted to start a company of his own. Starr introduced them to Norman Whitfield. In 1973, this collective toured England and Japan behind Motown soul star Edwin Starr. The group began in the early 1970s, when members of several backup bands from the Watts and Inglewood areas of Los Angeles united under the name Total Concept Unlimited. The Los Angeles-based group comprised Gwen Dickey (vocals), Henry Garner (drums), Terral 'Terry' Santiel (congas), Lequeint 'Duke' Jobe (bass), Michael Moore (saxophone), Kenny Copeland (trumpet, lead vocals), Kenji Brown (guitar, lead vocals), Freddie Dunn (trumpet), and Victor Nix (keyboards). ( July 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. This section's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia.

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