Backup band for the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, with "the"

• The Godfather's backing band
• "Sex Machine" band, with "The"
• "Murder, She Wrote" author Fletcher et al
• Members of James Brown's band
• Soul backing band named for their singer
• The Godfather of Soul's backup band, with "The"
• James Brown's aptly named band, with "the"

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