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Johnson was born 14 September 1945. [1] He was the youngest of nine children – six girls and three boys. He was born a twin but his twin sibling died in infancy. [2] The Johnson family lived in a three-bedroom house, first on Ellsworth Street across from the Christian Union Church in South Philadelphia, then later on North Cleveland Street in North Philadelphia.
The recording and mixing of Collective Soul took five weeks, a strained scheduled due to added concerts in late December 1994 which finished on New Year's Eve. Ed Roland wrote thirty-five songs in 1994 and recorded fifteen of them in the studio. Four more were written in the studio which allowed the band to disregard eight of the previous tracks.
Claude Johnson died on October 31, 2002, at age 67. [ 6 ] In 1981 the NYC based Afro-Cuban rumba vocal/percussion group, Totico y Sus Rumberos, recorded a rumba/guaguanco version of the song that was released on the Montuno Records label that became a cult classic in the city's Latino community.
No one really knew which record store bin to put Collective Soul in when the Atlanta band broke onto the scene — they were labeled everything from “bubblegum grunge” to southern blues-rock ...
The group, with Johnson as lead singer, scored three hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 and 1969 for the Kapp Records label. The first, "Court of Love" climbed to #25, but reached #3 on the US Billboard R&B chart. [3] The follow-up, "The Beginning of My End" got to #36 on the Hot 100 and #9 R&B. Two further releases in 1969 reached the R&B ...
Collective Soul formed in 1992 in Stockbridge, Georgia, and are currently based out of Atlanta. They became hugely successful in the alternative and modern rock charts in the ‘90s and 2000s on ...
The first version of "Uncertain Smile" differed from the "Cold Spell Ahead" demo by adding a Roland TR-808 drum machine beat, a bassline played by Johnson on a Fender Precision, lead and rhythm guitar leads on a 12-string Rickenbacker, and a xylimba which Johnson had purchased from Manny's Music on Manhattan's 48th Street.
All music composed by Henry Mancini, lyricists indicated "Baby Elephant Walk" – 2:49 "Charade" (Johnny Mercer) – 3:15 "Dreamsville" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) – 3:48