The Jarmels

 ( American Rhythm And Blues Musical Groups ) 

Jim Gribble, who had previously worked with The Mystics and The Passions, was assigned as Talent manager of the Jarmels. In early 1961, they released the single "Little Lonely One", which did not find much success outside New York. However, their second single, "A Little Bit of Soap", reached number 12 in United States on the Billboard chart in June of the same year. The flip side of the recording was "The Way You Look Tonight", a song featured in the film Swing Time and originally performed by Fred Astaire. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. "Soap" proved to be the only hit single for the Jarmels; the next four singles, including "Just the Way You Look Tonight" and a remake of the 1935 Bing Crosby hit "Red Sails in the Sunset" did not record chart at all.

The group continued to perform throughout the 1960s, recording a remake of "Come On, Girl" in 1963. There were several personnel changes, notably the addition of Major Harris, who would later go on to join the Delfonics. The group disbanded in 1969.

• Nathaniel Ruff (July 7, 1940 – April 15, 1997)
• Jesse "Paul" Burnett (July 28, 1943 – March 23, 2001)
• Ray Smith (born 1941)
• Earl Christian (February 27, 1942 – April 21, 1968)
• Thomas Eldridge (October 23, 1940 – June 19, 2000).