Tony Clarke (died 1970) was an American soul singer-songwriter born in New York City and raised in Detroit. He wrote the songs
Pushover and
Two Sides to Every Story, hits for Etta James. Clarke scored a chart hit of his own with
The Entertainer which hit #10 R&B and #31 Pop in the US in 1965. Clarke died in 1970, too late to see his career see a resurgence in the 1970s on the UK northern soul scene. The intense devotion was given to an obscure Chess single,
Landslide, and a song recorded later in Detroit on MS called
(They Call Me) A Wrong Man. Clarke also had a minor role in t…
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