Billy Scott & The Prophets are well
known for such beach music classics as “I Got The Fever”, “California”,
“Beach Trip”, “Roll Around Rockin”, “Rockin’ Good Way“, and the smash
#1 hit song for 20 weeks on The Rhythm ‘N Beach Top 40 Chart, “My Kind
Of Girl”, just to name a few.
Billy Scott & The Prophets have been a main staple on the southeastern
private party, festival, concert, corporate functions, night club and
wedding circuit for over thirty years. In 1997 they opened for The
Temptations at Blockbuster Pavilion in Charlotte, NC to a sold out crowd
of 17,000. This award winning 6-piece dance and show group plays a wide
variety of music including beach, blues, motown, retro, funk and oldies
and are in constant demand.
Billy Scott has been inducted in the Beach Music Hall Of Fame, The
North Carolina Music Hall Of Fame, and has a room full of Cammy Awards
to his credit. Billy Scott was awarded with three more Cammy Awards
on November 11, 2001 at the Alabama Theater in Myrtle Beach, SC.
Billy’s hit song “My Kind Of Girl” won Song of the Year, Ballad of the
Year, and Billy Scott also took home the 2001 Male Vocalist of the year
award.
Female
vocalist Cindy Floyd was nominated two years in a row for best female vocalist
at the 1998 and 1999 Cammy Awards. A duet with Billy on a song
titled “Rockin’ Good Way”, from their “Ready to Party” CD, also garnered
a nomination in 1999.
Their “Ready To Party” CD, nominated for three 1999 Cammy Awards, landed
at number six on the Rhythm 'N Beach Top 20 CD's Chart for 1999. In 2001
Billy Scott & The Prophets released a new CD titled “Looking Back”,
a retrospect of their best songs from 1968 through 2000.
In September
2002, Flipside Records released a new R&B compilation CD. The “New
Friends New Music” CD includes Billy’s new song “Can’t Do It Like I Used
To” and “ Long Legs All The Way Up”, written and sung by Prophets’ keyboardist,
Ricky Paul. Ricky Paul’s song was nominated for blues song of the year
at the 2003 Cammy Awards.
In the spring of 2003, Billy Scott received the Artist Of The Decade
Award from The Rhythm ‘N Beach Top 40 Award Show. Billy’s song “My Kind
Of Girl” was also named the #2 Song of the Decade second only to The Bee
Gees.
In September 2003, Billy Scott & The Prophets released a new CD
consisting of all original music composed by the group and a few outside
writers. The CD titled “Singers & Songwriters”, features lead vocals
on songs by all the band members including Billy Scott’s duet with the legendary
Bill Pinkney of The Original Drifters.
In January 2004, the group released their first live DVD titled ”Billy
Scott & The Prophets ‘A Soul Performance’ Live At The Newberry Opera
House”. The DVD is a two disc set packed with two hours of the favorite
songs by Billy Scott & The Prophets and also includes extra backstage
footage.
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