Chocolate Milk
A strutting, colourful funk band who made their name in the late 1970s,
Chocolate Milk's squelchy bass lines, swaggering grooves and infectious falsetto
hooks were later sampled by many early hip-hop artists.
Originally formed in high school by Amadee Castendell, Frank Richard and Mario
Tio, the New Orleans friends cut their teeth playing for tourists on Bourbon
Street and at local clubs and attracted the attention of legendary producer
Allen Toussaint. They backed Toussaint at live shows and worked for him as
session musicians on records by Patti LaBelle, Irma Thomas and Lee ...
