Excellent!! What else can I say, I'm his granddaughter Submitted by A.B.H.M (Arizona) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 1 found this helpful.
Simply Awesome!! I went to see this great musician when I was just a kid, perhaps 12 0r 13 years old. I sat with my mother, who took me to see him, very close to the stage. She loved his music. His music made such an impression on me.I'm now a
musician myself. I was searching my memory to remember his full name, which I did. Thank God. I play the piano. And I realize what a great pianist he was and the flare in his execution.He makes the piano sing! I just wish I knew more about him.Is he still living somewhere? I have enormous admiration for him. Thank you for the opportunity to express my thoughts and respect for this fabulous musician and composer. Submitted by joseph. josr09 (Ventura, California 93002 USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
fernando valadez This is an excellent record and the original versions. Submitted by smayo27282 (san francisco) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Beyond time I was introduced to this great musician when I was 17 years old and a new Air Force recurit stationed in Mississippi- that was almost half a century ago - I have never stopped listening to this greatest of all amor
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Valadez Music that hits you in the heart. He is the Duke Ellington of spanish music; an excellent composer Submitted by simplementeplatano (Corona,Ny,USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
$14.25 Producers: Don Davis, Al Jackson, Al Bell, Terry Manning. Getting his big break as Sam Cooke's replacement in the Soul Stirrers, vocalist Johnnie Taylor may have started out in gospel, but he truly hit his stride (at least as a viable pop artist) when he shifted to R&B and signed to the Stax label in the mid 1960s. This 20-track collection covers Taylor's '60s/'70s run on Stax, beginning with the singer's first major hits--the lightly funky, horn-laden "Who's Makin' Love?" and its like-minded follow-up, "Take Care of Your Homework." Many of these late-'60s/early-'70s tracks feature Stax's mind-blowing assemblage of in-house musicians--from Isaac Hayes on guitar to the Memphis Horns and Booker T. & the MG's--and this top-notch backing only enhances the punch of Taylor's impassioned, raspy style. While this compilation doesn't contain Taylor's later hits (namely the slinky, chart-topping "Disco Lady"), CHRONICLE does an excellent job of surveying his classic Stax years, making it the perfect companion piece to the '76-'80 Columbia anthology RATED X-TRAORDINARE. Another of those classic soul singers who came out of gospel to the secular world of pop, Johnnie Taylor is probably best-known for his later incarnations as a disco singer (his "Disco Lady" was simply unavoidable on the airwaves in 1976) and later yet as a smooth singer of ballads, but he had a productive run with Stax Records prior to that in the mid- to late '60s, and several of those tracks are collected here, including his first hit, "Who's Makin' Love" from 1968. Obviously, this set doesn't tell the complete story, but it features Taylor not yet that far removed from his gospel roots, and it could be argued that his Stax period is his best. ~ Steve Leggett Johnnie Taylor's career covered enough ground (and enough different record labels) that trying to sum it up on a single disc would really take some doing, and Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits is not the CD designed to do that job. Despite the title, Chronicle is a collection focusing exclusively on Taylor's work for Stax, meaning his disco-funk material for Columbia (including his biggest chart hit, "Disco Lady") doesn't make the cut; neither do his late-period soul-blues recordings for Malaco, nor his early gospel material with the Highway ...
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