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New Birth (also known as The New Birth) is an American funk and R&B group. It was originally conceived in Detroit, Michigan, by former Motown songwriter/producer Vernon Bullock and co-founded in Louisville, Kentucky, by him with former singer and Motown songwriter/producer Harvey Fuqua and musicians Tony Churchill, James Baker, Robin Russell, Austin Lander, Robert "Lurch" Jackson, Leroy Taylor ...
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Birth Day is the fourth album by American funk and R&B collective New Birth, released in North America by RCA on December 12, 1972. The album was produced by Harvey Fuqua (and his uncredited assistant Vernon Bullock) and was the record that put the group on the map.
Ain't No Big Thing, But It's Growing is the second album by American funk and R&B collective New Birth, released on July 17, 1971, in North America by RCA.. Released eight months after the release of their self-titled debut album (1970), like the previous album, Ain't No Big Thing was produced by mentor Harvey Fuqua and his assistant Vernon Bullock.
Gary Morris, whose version of the song was released as a single in 1986, and reached #21 on the RPM Adult Contemporary chart in February of that year. [14] New Birth's rendition features enhancements to the original melody, including a more instrumentally complex introduction, later directly sampled in Jamie Foxx's hit song "Unpredictable," and ...
In 1975 the song was remade by Louisville, Kentucky-based group New Birth. Their version was the group's only #1 hit on the soul chart and one of three songs to make the top 10 on that chart; it was one of two New Birth entries to hit the Top 40, reaching #36 on the pop chart.
The New Birth was as much a concept as it was a group, as it consisted of the instrumental group The Nite-Liters, (already famous for the song "K-Jee"), who during their height, consisted of James Baker, Robin Russell, Leroy Taylor, Charlie Hearndon, Tony Churchill, Austin Lander, Robert "Lurch" Jackson, (and, at this point, Johnny Graham, though they would later add Carl McDaniel), female ...
The song climbed to the number 12 position on the American Billboard Hot 100 chart, her highest peak on that chart in her career. [10] It became her first single to make the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, climbing to the number five position there. [11] It also reached number four on the Billboard adult contemporary charts. [12]