This is soul with a horn section and backing vocals that sounded a bit like The Temptations. There were a lot of groups that sounded like this in the early 1970s.
The Detroit Emeralds were originally called The Emeralds and were from Little Rock, Arkansas; they later moved to Detroit and added it to their name. "Do Me Right" was their seventh single; it reached #7 on the US R&B charts but only reached #43 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #95 in Canada. It appears to have been a local hit in Toronto.
After this, they reached #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971 with "You Want It, You Got It" and #24 in 1972 with "Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)"; neither received airplay in Toronto. The group splintered in 1974; at one time, two groups of singers were using the name. A new version of The Detroit Emeralds, with one original member, was reformed in 2019 and has released four singles so far without success.
Created February 9, 2026.