Abrim "Abe" Tilmon's Career

To Our Dad, STEVE TILMON....

Abrim "Abe" Tilmon's Career

Tilmon Brothers

Standing: Cleofas Tilmon, Aaron Mapson, Raymond Ellis

Seated: Ivory Tilmon, Abrim Tilmon Sr.,

Abrim Tilmon Jr.

Grandpa Abrim was 6 or 7

when this photo was taken.

DO ME RIGHT

(1971 Album)
Do Me Right
Wear This Ring (With Love)
Long Live the King
What You Gonna Do About Me
You Can't Take This Love For You, From Me
Just Now and Then
Lee
If I Lose Your Love
And I Love Her
I Can't See Myself (Doing Without You)
Holding On
Admit Your Love Is Gone

YOU WANT IT, YOU GOT IT

(1972 Album)
You Want It, You Got It
There's Love For Me Somewhere
I'll Never Sail The Seas Again Gone
Take My Love
Feel the Need (In Me)
I've Got to Move
Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)
I Bet You Get the One (Who Loves You)
Till You Decide to Come Home

I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU

(1973 Album)
Shake Your Head
So Long
You're Gettin A Little Too Smart
I Think of You, You Control Me (medley)
Whatcha Gonna Wear Tomorrow
Heaven Couldnt Be Like This, Without You Baby, I'm in Love with You Baby (medley)
My Dreams Have Got the Best of Me

FEEL THE NEED

(1977 Album)
Set It Out
Take It Or Leave It
Feel the Need In Me
Wednesday
Love for You
Look What Has Happened To Our Love
Sexy Ways
Love Has Come to Me

LET'S GET TOGETHER

(1978 Album)
Let's Get Together
Turn On Lady
(Call Me) Traveling Man
I Can't Seem to Forget
What's The Deal
Treat Her Like A Lady
I Just Dont Know About This Girl of Mine
Have A Good Day

THE DETROIT EMERALDS GREATEST HITS

(22 of the above songs plus)
Guess Who's Been Talking (not released until 1998)
I'm Qualified (1974)
Yes, I Know I'm In Love (1975)
Something You Got (not released until 1998)
I Can't Seem to Forget (1978)

SINGLES BY ABRIM TILMON

(A. C. Tilmon 1974)
I Love To Dream
Girl You Thrill Me
Yes, I Know Im In Love
Rosetta Stone
Turn On Lady

RIC TIC LABEL

(1968)
Show Time
(I'm An Ordinary Man) Take Me the Way I Am
I'll Keep On Coming Back

Awarded to ABE TILMON by Phonogram U.K. for sales in excess of 250,000 copies of the Detroit Emeralds' Janus Recording of "Feel The Need In Me"

Grandpa Abrim receiving the silver record for Feel the Need sales in the United Kingdom.

Cleofas Tilmon is a retired businessman from DiamlerChrysler's headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. He resides in Michigan.

Grandpa Abrim At Recording Studio

James Mitchell (top), Abrim Tilmon (middle) and Ivory Tilmon (front)

Abrim Tilmon, James Mitchell & Ivory Tilmon

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James Mitchell

James and Sandra Mitchell will be married 40 years on June 29, 2004. They have two sons Mark and Marlin and seven grandchildren. James is a deacon at St. Peter's Primitive Baptist Church in Detroit. When one of his sons (almost 20 years old) was on the basketball team at St. Martin De Pores High School, James would volunteer to help with the team. He was there everyday so the school offered him a job as the assistant athletic director and he coaches the boys' basketball team. He is out of the music business but still gets calls from new artists asking for advice about the music business. He gives them phone numbers of contacts that can help them advance their careers. Marvin Willis, who replaced Abrim in the "Ivory and James Emeralds," has a recording studio on 6 Mile Road in Detroit and James occasionally gives him advice also.

James reflected on the early days of the Detroit Emeralds. They used to rehearse at each others' homes. Both Abrim and James had two children, but Ivory had six children, so when they got to Ivory's home to rehearse, they had to do a lot of babysitting. Now all of the Emeralds' children are adults and so are some of their grandchildren.

He also remembered when they were considering forming the Detroit Emeralds how he and Abrim and their wives used to travel to other cities like Chicago and New York to see performers like James Brown. By the time the Emeralds emerged, many of the well-known artists knew them. As a matter of fact, the Emeralds' hit song, "Do Me Right" was written for James Brown on napkins when Abrim, James and Ivory were on the way to audition for James Brown. He wasn't there when they arrived, so the Emeralds kept the song for themselves.

Ivory Tilmon

Ivory Tilmon has been out of the music business for years but plans to go back to his gospel roots by the end of this year and start singing in the church again. He has been a truck driver for almost 10 years now, mainly driving locally but occasionally driving out of town. He has been married to Renaa for 30 years. They have 6 children and 10 grandchildren.

None of the other siblings ever went into the music business as a profession, but they are musically talented and their children also inherited the Tilmon musical genes. One of their cousins, James Epps was the lead singer of the Fantastic Four. "The Whole World Is A Stage" was one of their biggest hits. James died last year. Some of the other family members sing and play organs in their churches and several cousins are pastors of churches in Detroit.

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Do You Remember Dancin' To The Sounds Of The Detroit Emeralds?
Background Music:

'Wear This Ring With Love'

Recorded by: Abrim Tilmon & The Detroit Emeralds.