Artist's albums
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of The Ink Spots
1999 · compilation
Sing Country and Their Own Hits
1972 · album
Ink Spots Favorites
1999 · album
The Anthology
1998 · album
If I Didn't Care
1995 · album
The Ink Spots' Greatest Hits
1981 · compilation
Stanley Morgan's Ink Spots in London
1979 · album
The American Songbook
2023 · compilation
I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire (Remastered)
2023 · single
If I Didn't Care: An Anthology
2022 · album
Cow Cow Boogie
2022 · single
Always
2021 · single
The Final Album
2020 · album
Address Unknown (Better Call Saul Mix)
2020 · single
18 Greatest Hits
2005 · compilation
Ink Spots Vol. 2
1950 · album
In Las Vegas
1961 · album
The Ink Spots
1964 · album
The Ink Spots' Greatest Hits
1935 · album
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Biography
The Ink Spots played a large role in pioneering the Black vocal group-harmony genre, helping to pave the way for the doo wop explosion of the '50s. The quavering high tenor of Bill Kenny presaged hundreds of street-corner leads to come, and the sweet harmonies of Charlie Fuqua, Deek Watson, and bass Hoppy Jones (who died in 1944) backed him flawlessly. Kenny's impeccable diction and Jones's deep drawl were both prominent on the Ink Spots' first smash on Decca in 1939, the sentimental "If I Didn't Care." From then through 1951, the group was seldom absent from the pop charts, topping the lists with "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)" (1940), "I'm Making Believe" and "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" (both in 1944), and "The Gypsy" and "To Each His Own" (both in 1946). Watson eventually split to form his own group, the Brown Dots, and appeared in numerous low-budget film musicals, while Kenny attempted a solo career, notching a solo hit in 1951 with the uplifting "It Is No Secret." Countless groups masquerading as the Ink Spots have thrived across the nation since the '50s. ~ Bill Dahl, Rovi