Published: April 21, 2012 – 10:21 PM | Updated: April 23, 2012 – 12:02 AM

Question: Which of the following groups are future music hall of famers: The Chi-lites, Edwin Starr, Gerald Levert, Barry White, Sly, Slick and Wicked?

Answer: All of the above.

Most of the aforementioned artists won’t be enshrined at 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., but if LaMont Robinson’s dream becomes an actuality, those artists and many others who contributed to the rhythm and blues genre, and by extension pop music, will be enshrined at the Leo’s Casino R&B Music Hall of Fame & Museum.

The inaugural induction ceremony for the museum will take place at Cuyahoga Community College in November.

Robinson is a former Harlem Globetrotter who now owns and operates his own comedy basketball team, the Harlem Clowns, where he is known as “Showboat” Robinson, the Clown Prince of Basketball.

But Robinson, 49, is also a lifelong music fan who has amassed more than 5,000 items such as classic concert posters,  rare star-studded outfits worn by artists such as the O’Jays, photographs and other memorabilia from his personal collection and from artists and their families who are interested in helping him realize his dream.

He already has put together a mobile exhibit that he makes available for events, and hopes to keep a mobile museum rolling in a fold-out tractor-trailer once the bricks-and-mortar museum is open.

Robinson’s desire is to celebrate both legends and lesser-known R&B artists through the prism of Leo’s Casino, the eastside Cleveland nightclub that from 1963 through 1972 was the place to see R&B acts, designated a rock ’n’ roll landmark by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. The nightclub, owned by Leo Frank, was originally called Leo’s and was located at East 49th and Central, where it played host to jazz artists such as Cannonball Adderly and John Coltrane. The original building burned down in 1962, and Frank and his partner Jules Berger opened Leo’s Casino in the old Quad Hall Hotel at 7500 Euclid Ave.