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Johnnie Harrison Taylor (born May 5, 1937, Crawfordsville, Arkansas; died May 31, 2000, Dallas, Texas) was an American vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from gospel, blues and soul to pop, doo-wop and disco.

Taylor had one release, “Somewhere to Lay My Head”, on Chicago’s Chance Records in the 1950s, as part of the doo-wop group Five Echoes.Taylor was also part of the gospel group,The Highway QC’s also,replacing Sam Cooke,who had become the lead singer of the Soul Stirrers in 1951.Then,after Cooke left the Soul Stirrers in 1957,Taylor was hired to take Cooke’s place as lead singer.

A few years later, after Cooke had established his independent SAR Records, Taylor signed on and recorded “Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day” in 1962. However, SAR Records quickly became defunct after Cooke’s death in 1964.

In 1966, Taylor moved to Stax Records in Memphis, where he was dubbed “The Philosopher of Soul”. While there he recorded with the label’s house band, Booker T. & the MGs. His hits included “I Had a Dream”, “I’ve Got to Love Somebody’s Baby” (both written by the team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter) and most notably “Who’s Making Love?”, which reached No. 5 on the Billboard Top 40 and No. 1 on the R&B charts in 1968. During his tenure at Stax, he became an R&B star, with over a dozen chart successes, such as “Cheaper to Keep Her” (Mack Rice) and producer Don Davis’s “I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)”.

After Stax folded in the mid 1970s, Taylor switched to Columbia Records, where he made his best-known hit, “Disco Lady”, in 1976.

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lostbuckzzz wrote:
December 2008

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December 2008

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Hahahans wrote:
November 2008

There's a party, in soul heaven.

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G-spothunter08 wrote:
August 2008

Granny aslways said that certain music will bring to your memory a certain smell of home cooked meals everyone that Johnnie produced brings me to the days of Tcakes and Big Mama's sweet tea made with a whole lot of LOVE

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MrReginaldCRice wrote:
March 2008

Will always LOVE YOU Johnnie

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saraonfire wrote:
November 2007

Good old Johnny Taylor, I remember being a little girl singing Disco Lady at night while my dad shined a flashlight on me lol! Aw, those childhood memories :)

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marva1946 wrote:
October 2007

JOHNNIE TAYLOR IS THE MAN.

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