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The Avalon's George Cox began singing during the late 1940's in Booker T. Washington High School's school choir, the same Norfolk high school attended years earlier by several members of the Golden Gate Quartet. At the same time, he started a vocal group there called the Bob-O-Links. Besides George, the group contains Bernard Branch, a fellow called Bachelor D. and a couple of other members whose names have been lost with time. The Bob-O-Links soon landed their own weekly radio show on station WRAP, hosted by Bob King and aired every Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, across the river in Newport News, two other singing groups were attracting attention. The Sentimental Four, a group that would eventually evolve into the Five Keys, consisted of two pairs of brothers, Rudy and Bernie West and Rafael and Ripley Ingram. They added Edwin Hall as a fifth member.
A second Newport News group formed, initially consisting of Bernard Purdie, his brother-in-law Charles "Bobby" Crawley, Ulysses Hicks and George Leroy Harris. At some point Maryland Pierce replaced Ulysses Hicks. This group was at different times called the Chimes, the Four Bees and the Five Chimes. It would eventually evolve into Encores and then be renamed the Avalons.
As is often the case with groups from the same locale, the Sentimental Four and Four Bees ended up exchanging members frequently. This was not done intentionally. It's just that when one singer found himself out of one group and another needed a singer, things happened. Thus, at one time or another, Edwin Hall and Rafael Ingram sang in the Four Bees, while Ulysses Hicks and Maryland Pierce ended up in the Five Keys.
Thus the Encores ended up composed of James Dozier (tenor), George Cox (tenor), Bobby Crawley (baritone) and Bernard Purdie (bass). In the early 1950's, the Encores joined the Silas Green tent show which took them into Canada for the first time. Even after leaving Silas Green some months later, the Encores decided to remain in Canada, playing clubs there, mostly in Montreal and Quebec.
In 1955 the Encores acquired Fanny Wolff as manager and she got them a recording contract with RCA's Groove label subsidiary. At Groove, the group would change its name to the Avalons and record the classics "Chain Around My Heart" and "It's Funny But It's True".
In 1955, the Avalons joined the Hortice Allen Dance Troop and toured Canada and the eastern United States. In 1956, they joined the Raymon Bruce Rock & Roll Review that toured New Jersey with the Spiders, Sensations, Clovers, Gloria Mann and many other acts. One of the most memorable shows was at the Stanley Warner Theater in Camden NJ on April 8, 1956.
The Avalons eventually left Canada for an extended gig at the Club Harlem in Atlantic City (NJ) with stars like Eartha Kitt, Billy Daniels and Richard Pryor. Meanwhile, songs that they had recorded both in Canada and the U.S. began finding their way onto vinyl. "Hearts Desire," first released in Canada on the Sandryon label, was re-recorded and released on Unart. It was to become their most endearing song. Barry Golder and Jocko Henderson, who leased "Hearts Desire" to United Artists, also released "You Can Count On Me" on their own Casino label.
Sometime around 1959, Bobby Crawley left the Avalons while they were playing Atlantic City and was replaced by Huey Lewis. Lewis was a friend who often traveled with the group, so he knew all the arrangements.
By the early 1960's the original Avalons had broken up. George Cox formed a new Avalons group that recorded "Picture of You" on Ernest Kendricks and Viviane Green's Ken-Gren label. The Avalons then changed their name to the Squires and released the George Cox composition, "Why Should I Suffer" for the Herald label.