Pick Up the Slackby The Soul Children

Formed 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, disbanded late 1970s. Brought together by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. A two-man, two-woman vocal group with a penchant for recording soap-opera ballads dealing with adultery, the Soul Children were signed to Stax Records in the late '60s. After Stax closed its doors in 1975, the Soul Children recorded for Epic and later issued several up-tempo dance singles for Fantasy's reactivated Stax label. The group temporarily stopped issuing new music by the decade's end; however, they reconvened nearly 30 years later for the release of 2008's Still Standing. www.allmusic.com