Tavares - Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel (1976) • TopPop

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In 1976, Tavares — five Cape Verdean-American brothers from New Bedford, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island — were at the apex of their commercial breakthrough. 'Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel', written by Freddie Perren and Keni St. Lewis, reached number one in the Netherlands and number three on the US Hot Soul Singles chart, becoming the group's only Gold record. Their appearance on AVRO's TopPop — the…

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This performance documents a canonical peak-disco-era soul vocal group at the precise moment of their European breakthrough, captured in the distinctive production idiom of the most important pop television platform in the Netherlands. As a single-take, no-cut broadcast record, it preserves the…