Chairmen of the Board is an Detroit, Michigan-based soul music group, anchored by General (Norman) Johnson. General Johnson had a hit as the lead singer of The Showmen in the early 1960s, and when songwriting powerhouse Holland/Dozier/Holland left Motown in 1967 to establish their own Invictus/Hot Wax group of record labels, they teamed Johnson up with Eddie Custis, Danny Woods and Canadian born Harrison Kennedy as the new company’s flagship act, under the appropriate name “Chairmen of the Board”.