sentences:  In 1967, Green won a local talent show at a club called the Trocadero.His prize was a concert opening for Lou Rawls and Earl Hines at the Sutherland Lounge.In the audience was Mel Collins, and his wife Joshie Jo Armstead, who was a songwriter who had written tunes with Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson prior to the couple joining Motown.