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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]
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]
"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]
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. [4]
In 1954, Johnnie & Jack had a number 1 country hit with their recording. [5] In April 1954, it peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard country and western chart. [6] It was also ranked No. 25 on Billboard ' s 1954 year-end country and western retail sales chart. [7] The Statler Brothers, whose version was a number 2 country hit in 1983.
"Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" is a song performed by singers Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams, written by Nat Kipner and John Vallins. The single was a comeback of sorts for Mathis, because his last U.S. top 10 hit had been 1963’s "What Will Mary Say" and his last U.S. #1 hit had been 1957's "Chances Are." [3]
Johnny Loftus of AllMusic stated that the album is "really an abstract, an only slightly condensed run through Sublime's three studio albums" and went on to say that "Gold isn't for anybody, because it includes too much shake for the noncommittal but not enough kind for the Sublime professionals."
Johnny's Greatest Hits received gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in June 1959, [7] and Platinum certification for reaching the one million mark was awarded on November 1, 1999. [8]