The Flaming Ember

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The Flaming Ember was an American white soul band from Detroit, Michigan, who found brief commercial success around 1970.

The group originally formed as in Detroit in 1964 called The Flaming Embers. They signed with Hot Wax Records (the label founded by Holland-Dozier-Holland after leaving Motown Records in 1968) after having recorded for a number of smaller Detroit-area labels since 1965.

The band dropped the "s" from its name and scored pop and rhythm and blues chart hits with "Mind, Body and Soul" (#26 on the Billboard pop singles chart), their signature song (and heartland rock antecedent) "Westbound Number Nine" (#24 pop, #15 on the Billboard R&B singles chart), and "I'm Not My Brother's Keeper" (#34 pop, #12 R&B), all released between late 1969 and late 1970.

The group's follow-up efforts such as 1971's "Stop the World and Let Me Off" were not as successful, and after changing their name to Mind, Body and Soul they spent the rest of the 1970s playing the Detroit bar circuit.

The band was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1999, due to Jerry Plunk hailing from Jackson, Tennessee where rockabilly was born. [1]

The Flaming Embers reunited briefly in the early 2000s and are in the process of completing a CD.