Cobb and Walter Eaton and keyboardist Joe Wilson-relocated to Atlanta and signed a recording deal with Capitol Records. Yost quickly established that his greater talent was not drumming but singing, and after being discovered by talent agent Paul Cochran, who co-managed the group with Buddy Buie (who would also produce their records), the band-which also included guitarists J. Yost’s drumset was manufactured by Classic and the group, which played cover songs, changed its name first to the Classics before settling on Classics IV (another band had already trademarked the Classics). At age 7, Yost moved to Jacksonville, Fla., where he first played drums in a mid-’60s band called the Echoes, followed by a stint with Leroy and the Moments. Their best known member was the Detroit-born singer Dennis Yost. They were called The Classics IV, and those soft-rock hits with the single-word titles-“Spooky,” “Stormy” and “Traces”-were, well, true classics of the late ’60s AM radio scene.īut who were the Classics IV, and what became of them? They’re one of those bands that will never, ever get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but we bet you fondly recall their three Top 10 hits-all logged within a period of less than a year and a half-and wouldn’t turn them off if they came on the radio right now.

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