Shreveport, US
r&b
334.7m all-time streams (13 Feb '26)
Brenton Wood's charmingly unpredictable phrasing and his infectious sense of good times made the smooth uptown soul of "The Oogum Boogum Song" and "Gimme Little Sign" into hits in 1967.

Despite his skill as a pop-soul vocalist, Wood was never able to reach such heights again, yet those two songs became genuine R&B classics of their era.