October 22, 1951: The Clovers hit #1 on the R&B chart with "Fool, Fool, Fool"…

The Clovers are an American rhythm & blues vocal group out of Washington, D.C. They became one of the biggest selling acts of the 1950s, including their top thirty US hit in 1959, the Leiber and Stoller song

 "Love Potion No. 9"…

October 22, 1951:

The Clovers hit #1 on the R&B chart with "Fool, Fool, Fool"…

Check out the guitar player. That's Bill Harris and he's a CLOVER. This is one of the earliest inclusions of an exclusively instrumentalist as one of the member of the group...

Atlantic Records signed the group in February 1951…

The Clovers were immediately booked by the Shaw Artists agency to perform at the Apollo Theater in Harlem starting on the 15 February that year…^.

Their second recording session resulted in the release of "Fool, Fool, Fool" in August 1951 which by September had reached #1 on the R&B chart…

The rest, as they say, is history…

THE CLOVERS

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