Twenty-five miles northwest of Gary, Indiana, the children of two Chicago families were busy dragging their equipment between their respective houses on 115th and 116th streets in wagons so as not to drive their parents completely crazy. Ricky, Hank, and Ronald Goggins along with Hedda, David, and Wendell Sudduth formed the Soul Impacts in 1967 before being discovered by neighbor Doris Jones one year later. Jones released a hastily recorded version of “Here’s Some Dances” on her short-lived S.I.M. label before turning the group over to veteran engineer, producer and manager Jim Porter. After a bit of tinkering that included adding neighbor Juwanna Glover and conga player Carl Monroe, Porter did the math and rechristened the group Eight Minutes. Between 1968 and 1969, he issued a crop of singles on his Jay Pee label, including a funky reworking of “Here’s Some Dances,” awash in kid-breaks and eerie vocal lifts. As the group grew locally, New York’s Perception label took note and eventually purchased their contract from Porter. The move spelled the end of their playing days as Perception brought in a team of session men for their only album. This same fate would bestow the Jacksons upon arrival at Motown. The LP and ensuing singles charted decently, but the Sudduth and Gogins family stopped short of pulling their kids out of school to take them to the next level. Years later Wendell would comment, “It was for the best, I think. I got to play baseball and be a normal kid. Michael didn’t.”