He was a singer-songwriter born in New York and the brother of the singer Carl Feaster.
In the early 1950s he was a baritone for the group The Tunetoppers and after being recommended by Jimmy Keyes to help make up a new group originally called The Keynotes, he would soon appear with his brother in the band that changed its name to The Chords.
Although they never were well known and had no other huge hits, they went down in history as being as the first artists with an R&B song to enter the pop charts in the 1950s when they reached No. 5 on the pop chart with their timeless “Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream)” in 1954.
After the group going through name changes to the Chordcats and the Sh-Booms they eventually disbanded in 1960 when he went on to become a contractor who would repair and work on apartment buildings.
He died in 1975 when he was 41 years old.
Big Wheelie & The Hubcaps recordings
Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream) (James Keyes/Carl Feaster/Claude Feaster/Floyd F. McRae/James Edwards)
Sources:
- http://home.att.net/~uncamarvy/Chords/chords.html
- http://imdb.com/name/nm1509237/
- http://www.musiciansfriend.com/document?doc_id=101397&src=3SOSWXXB
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/556383-Claude-Feaster