Vocalist And Founding Member Of The Dramatics Dies
Ron Banks, a vocalist known for his falsetto and as a founding member of the R&B group the Dramatics, died Thursday (March 4) at his Detroit home of a reported heart attack. He was 58.
Banks was a member of the group with William Howard, Larry Demps, Willie Ford and Elbert Wilkins. In 1971, the Dramatics, on the Stax/Volt record label, scored a No. 9 pop hit “Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get.” The next year, they had a No. 1 hit with “In the Rain.”
Banks was a Detroit native born May 10, 1951. He is survived by his wife Sandy and six children. Banks is the fourth Dramatics member to pass away following the deaths of Wilkins (1992), Howard (2000) and James Mack Brown (2008).