http://www.rockhall.com/event/hall-of-fame-series-event/live/

*****LIVE STREAMING AT THR ROCK HALL WEBSITE****

with original member of THE O'JAYS-BOBBY MASSEY

7:00 PM EST 4:00 PST !!

Posted by Bill G. on Wednesday, 02/27/2013 @ 19:08pm

Is there an other group called the Ojays? Why are people voting for the Ojays at the Rock Hall museum? They are already inducted!

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 01/13/2019 @ 20:22pm

Amazing! The Rock Hall Museum can't get their voting machine to detect artists who are already inductees, and block uninformed people from voting for them.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 01/14/2019 @ 06:39am

My guess is that the voting machine didn't catch the lack of apostrophe.

Posted by Follower on Monday, 01/14/2019 @ 23:53pm

https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-william-carvan-iles-dead-20190405-story.html

*** R.I.P. BILL ISLES of THE O'JAYS (1941-2019)***

William "Bill" Isles, one of the five FOUNDING MEMBERS of the Legendary Rock Hall-Inducted R&B group, THE O'JAYS, died this past March of cancer at his home in Oceanside, California. Bill was 78.

He was an original member of the group, and sang on several of their early 60's National hits...such as "LIPSTICK TRACES", STAND IN FOR LOVE",LONELY DRIFTER,and 'LET IT ALL OUT', which was later covered by Nina Simone. Despite his status as an ORIGINAL and FOUNDING MEMBER of the O'Jays, who sang with them for the first seven years of their existence, Isles was SNUBBED from Induction when The O'Jays were inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005...for unknown reasons. Rumor has it that Original members EDDIE LEVERT and WALTER WILLIAMS didn't want Bill inducted because they never forgave him for quitting the group in 1965. Original O'Jays member BOBBY MASSEY (who quit just BEFORE the group's First Million-Seller,"BACK STABBERS" was released, but WAS inducted), protested this decision, but was out-voted by EDDIE and WALTER (founding member WILLIAM POWELL, who was ALSO inducted, is deceased0.
WHILE IT'S STILL AVAILABLE,SEE THE O'JAYS' STORY
HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EskUD0g0QZg

And more on the death of BILL ISLES HERE:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8505968/bill-isles-dead-ojays

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/story/2019-04-05/obituary-the-ojays-co-founder-william-carvan-isles-ii-has-died-at-the-age-of-78

SEE THE FIVE ORIGINAL O'JAYS PERFORM THEIR HIT "LIPSTICK TRACES" on ABC-TV's "SHIVAREE" at THIS LINK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK90_cWyyco

(L-to-R) BOBBY MASSEY, BILL ISLES, EDDIE LEVERT, WILLIAM POWELL, and WALTER WILLIAMS on Lead.

Posted by Bill G on Tuesday, 06/4/2019 @ 23:05pm

Inducted in 2005

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 09/3/2020 @ 07:54am

It appears that remains found in 1982 in Ohio have been identified as those of Frankie Little Jr., a member of the O'Jays for a short time in the 1960s. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/us/ojays-frank-frankie-little-jr-remains-identified-cold-case-trnd/index.html

Posted by Joe S. on Tuesday, 12/14/2021 @ 20:54pm