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Their hit, "I'll Take You There," climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's biggest crossover success.

You don’t have to read far in the biographies of Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding to discover that they grew up singing in one church or another. In fact, ...