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Exile was founded in Richmond, Kentucky, in 1963 as the Exiles, [2] [3] by a group of students attending Madison High School.Randy Westbrook, in the book 50 Years of Exile: The Story of a Band in Transition, describes the band's origins as "murky" due to conflicting accounts among early members. [4]
James Preston Pennington (born January 22, 1949) is an American musician, known primarily as the guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the country pop band Exile.Pennington was one of the early members and one of the lead singers of the group until departing in 1989, though he would later reform the band in 1995, before reuniting the mid-80's country lineup in 2008. [2]
American band Exile has released 14 studio albums, five compilation albums, two live albums, 40 singles, and eight music videos.. Initially, Exile was a rock and roll and rhythm and blues band, releasing several unsuccessful singles on a number of labels including Date and Wooden Nickel.
In 1980, Taylor became the contributing lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of country-pop band Exile. He performed with the group until 1989, when he left to pursue a solo career. After parting ways with Epic, Taylor reunited with Exile in 1995 and continues to perform with the band. [3]
After lead singer J. P. Pennington quit the band in 1989, LeMaire alternated with Paul Martin on lead vocals, including the singles "Nobody's Talking" and "Yet". [3] Following Exile's initial 1993 disbanding, LeMaire played bass for Burnin' Daylight in the mid-nineties, [5] reuniting permanently with his "Kiss You All Over" bandmates in 2008.
Exile had been performing since the mid-1960s, both as a touring and recording act. After adopting a pop-rock style in the early 1970s, the group reached the peak of its success in 1978 with the song "Kiss You All Over"; that song spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Subsequent singles fared far less successfully.
"Kiss You All Over" is a 1978 song performed by American group Exile, written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. It was included on the band's third album, Mixed Emotions (1978), and featured lead vocalist Jimmy Stokley and guitarist J.P. Pennington on vocals.
Mark Eugene Gray (October 24, 1952 – December 2, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter and country music artist. He recorded both as a solo artist for Columbia Records and as a member of the country pop band Exile, of which he was a member between 1979 and 1982.