Music Style Rock

Musical Influences Association

Similar Artists The Association

Artist History Jim was the founding member and original lead singer of the successful singing group: The Association. Their legendary hits included Windy, Never My Love, Along Comes Mary and the beautiful classic Cherish. In 1967 The Association had the distinguished honor of outperforming The Beatles and became the number one group of the year. They performed on over 50 major television shows in a period of four years.Jim started his career in 1960 with his brother Jerry and performed throughout California as The Yester Brothers. While fulfilling service obligations with the US Army in Germany, he toured Germany and France for 1½ years entertaining troops with a folk-comedy trio called The Yester Years. The Yester Years won many commendations and lifting the spirits of many troops stationed far from home.In 1965 Jim returned to LA and formed the popular group The Association. In 1966 the group earned their first gold record for Along Comes Mary. In 1967 The Association was voted the number one vocal group in the USA. 1967, Cherish became the second gold record for The Association and Windy the third gold record. In 1968, Never My Love became the groups fourth gold record.In 1993, Jim joined The New Four Preps vocal group which is still touring the United States. In 1994, Jim joined Linda Genteel’s Piano Princess Show and her Get High On Music, Not Drugs School Programs and in 1997 joined Linda Genteel’s Piano Concert Tour of China. 1965 Formed the popular group The Association. 1966 Earned first gold record for Along comes Mary. 1966 The Association performed on The Ed Sullivan Show and over 20 other major shows. 1967 The Association was voted the number one vocal group in the USA. 1967 The Association reappeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. 1967 Cherish became the second gold record for The Association. 1967 Windy became the third gold record for The Association. 1968 Never My Love became the fourth gold record for The Association. 1985 Reformed The Modern Folk Quartet. 1991 Joined the new Loving Spoonful vocal group. 1993 Joined The New Four Preps vocal group. 1994 Performed with The New Four Preps at The Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, Atlantic City. 1994 Joined Linda Genteel's Get High On Music, Not Drugs School Assembly program. 1997 Recorded his first solo album Touches of Love with Linda Genteel. 1997 Joined Linda Genteel's Piano Concert Tour of China. 1998 Joined Linda Genteel's Piano Princess Show.

Group Members Jim Yester

Instruments Guitar, Base, Banjo

Location Woodbine, New Jersey - USA

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