Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
The group helped launch the careers of several secular stars, including Lou Rawls, Johnnie Taylor and Sam Cooke. The Highway Q.C.'s were founded in 1945 in Chicago by a group of male teenagers who attended Highway Baptist Church, including Sam Cooke , Creadell Copeland , Marvin Jones, Charles Jones, Jake Richard , and Lee Richard.
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]
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.
The release of "Steal Away" on Fame in May 1964 was occasioned by a visit to FAME Studios by "Mr Atlanta Music" Bill Lowery, on whose say-so Hall made an initial one thousand copy pressing of "Steal Away", Hall and FAME Studios sideman Dan Penn - then twenty-three years old [6] - distributing the discs to radio stations throughout the South in ...
Diggs plays Johnnie Taylor, a former athlete and coach who returns to his hometown after a tour of duty and falls for a local policewoman. ... Diggs is divorced from actress/singer Idina Menzel ...
"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]
Malaco Records is an American independent record label based in Jackson, Mississippi, United States, [1] that has been the home of various major blues and gospel acts, such as Johnnie Taylor, Bobby Bland, Latimore, Z. Z. Hill, Denise LaSalle, Dorothy Moore, Little Milton, Shirley Brown, Tyrone Davis, Marvin Sease, and the Mississippi Mass Choir.