Diane Mathis [2020] - Welcome Back Home [Blaque Bagg] / The Debonaires Discography

This single was released in Nov 2020 but has only just been posted on YT (4 Feb 2021).

Details

Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Blaque Bagg
Cat No:	None
Year:	2021
Key:	4A
BPM:	85
Value:	£1

D'Y-Ann Marie Mathis aka Diane Hogan dated Stevie Wonder for 2 years whilst she was at college. She joined The Debonaires as lead singer (aged 15) after they recorded their first single, which to my calculation would make her 70/71 this year.

The Debonaires recorded four singles on Golden World followed by two on Solid Hit. She also released a solo single on Capitol in 1969 as Diane Hogans.

In the seventies, she was on the road with The Undisputed Truth and various other Detroit groups.

The Debonaires were a young girl group from Detroit who started out as a trio Elsie Baker, Dorothy Garland and Joyce Vincent. Diane Hogan joined after the first single.

Discogs states that the original members were Thelma Hopkins, Joyce Vincent, Diane Hogans and Elsie Baker, however an article on SoulfulDetroit says it was Dorothy Garland, Joyce Vincent, Diane Hogan and Elsie Baker i.e Dorothy Garland not Thelma Hopkins.

Thelma (Telma) Hopkins became an actress in the late 70s after she had been a member of Tony Orlando's Dawn.  There are several articles about her on the net and none of them menton her being in The Debonaires so I tend to defer to the Soulful Detroit account. 

Joyce Vincent was later known as Joyce Vincent Wilson and joined Tony Orlando's Dawn at the same time as Telma Hopkins around 1970/71. Prior to this Dawn were actually two sessions singers, but Orlando needed to form a group to tour after the success of a couple of singles. It is also claimed that she was chosen to replace Mary Wilson in The Supremes but the goup was disbanded by Motown as no original members remained with the group, but she did later perform with FLOS (Former Ladies Of The Supremes).

I can't find any info on Dorothy Garland as have to plough through dozens of pages referring ot Judy Garland's character in Wizard Of Oz! Neither can I find anything on Elsie Baker.

The Debonaires - Discography

1964 - Please Don't Say We're Through / A Little Too Long [GW-17]

A: Doo-Wop / early 60s

B: Doo-Wop / early 60s

1965 - Eenie Meenie Gypsaleenie / Please Don't Say We're Through [GW-26]

A: Northern Soul

B: Doo-Wop / early 60s

1966 - How's Your New Love Treating You? / Big Time Fun [GW-38]

A: Northern Soul

B: Poppy early 60s girl group sound

1966 - C.O.D. (Collect On Delivery) / How's Your New Love Treating You? [GW-44]

A: Northern Soul

B: Northern Soul

1966 - Headache In My Heart / Loving You Takes All My Time [SH-102]

A: Northern Soul

B: ?

1967 - I'm In Love Again / Headache In My Heart [SH-104]

A: Northern Soul

A: Northern Soul

Diane Hogans

1969 How Does It Feel / Love Is All Around [Capitol #2478]

A: ?

B: Sweet Soul Ballad