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Biography
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The Jesters
Effective period / Period of releases: 1957 - 1993
Members: Adam Jackson (7), Lenny McKay, Noel Grant (2), Jimmy Smith (40), Leo Vincent
The Jesters were a doo-wop group based in New York City who achieved success in the late 1950s. They were students at Cooper Junior High School in Harlem who graduated from singing under an elevated train station near 120th Street to the amateur night contest at the Apollo Theater, where Paul Winley discovered them and signed them to his Winley Records.