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Taylor in 1967. Johnnie Taylor was born in Crawfordsville, Arkansas, United States. [5] He grew up in West Memphis, Arkansas, performing in gospel groups as a youngster.As an adult, he had one release, "Somewhere to Lay My Head", on Chicago's Vee Jay Records label in the 1950s, as part of the gospel group The Highway Q.C.'s, which included a young Sam Cooke. [5]
Eargasm is an album by the American R&B singer Johnnie Taylor, released in March 1976 on Columbia Records. [2] [3] The album contains "Disco Lady", which was a No. 1 pop hit for four weeks, and achieved the first platinum certification for a single, with two million copies sold. [4]
"Disco Lady" is a 1976 single by American singer Johnnie Taylor that went on to become his biggest hit. It spent all four weeks of April 1976 at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and six weeks atop the Billboard R&B chart in the U.S. [4] It was also the first single to be certified platinum by the RIAA; [5] ultimately it sold over 2.5 million copies. [6]
"Who's Making Love" is a song written by Stax Records staffers Homer Banks, Bettye Crutcher, Don Davis and Raymond Jackson and recorded by singer Johnnie Taylor in 1968. [ 2 ] Released on the Stax label in the late summer of 1968, it became Taylor's breakthrough single, reaching number one on the US Billboard R&B chart and number five on the ...
Released as a single in the summer of 1973, "I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)" was one of the biggest hits of Taylor's career, holding the #1 spot on Billboard's Hot Soul Singles Chart for two weeks, reaching the #11 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, [3] and #35 in Canada.
Little Johnny Taylor (born Johnny Lamont Merrett; February 11, 1943 – May 17, 2002) [1] was an American blues and soul singer. He made recordings throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and continued public performances through the 1980s and 1990s.
Johnny Clayton Taylor, Jr. is an American lawyer, author, board member and public speaker who is the president and chief executive officer of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). [1] He was previously president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), which represents the 47 publicly-supported historically Black ...
"Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone" is a 1970 R&B single by Johnnie Taylor. The song was written by record producer Don Davis with Kent Barker and Cam Wilson, and produced by Davis. [1] The single was Taylor's second number one on the U.S. R&B chart and crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number twenty-eight in February 1971. [2]