The Tams are an American vocal group from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, who enjoyed their greatest chart success in the 1960s, and the 1970s, and most improbably in the 1980s. Two separate versions of the group continued to perform and record. One version features original member Robert Lee Smith - 'The Original Tams with R. L. Smith', and the other was under the leadership of Charles Pope, the brother of co-founder Joe Pope.