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	Johnnie Taylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johnnie Harrison Taylor (May 5, 1937–May 31, 2000) was a vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from gospel, blues and soul to pop, doo-wop and disco.
		Taylor's record sales were good but not enough for the singer to receive the national attention he once had.
		Johnnie Taylor died of a massive heart attack at Charleton Methodist Hospital on May 31, 2000 in Dallas, Texas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnnie_Taylor (422 words)

	CMT.com : Johnnie Taylor : Biography
		Taylor released a few singles on Sar and another Cooke label, Derby, over the next few years, including the minor R&B hit "Rome (Wasn't Built in a Day)." Unfortunately, Cooke was murdered in late 1964, and his labels folded, leaving Taylor without a record deal.
		Taylor's style during this era had evolved into a hybrid of soul and blues, with more emphasis on the latter than at any other point in his career; he continued to tour steadily through the '80s and '90s, and landed a few more singles on the lower reaches of the R&B chart up until 1990.
		Taylor's final album was 1999's Gotta Get the Groove Back; on May 31, 2000, he suffered a heart attack at his home in Duncanville, TX (a suburb of Dallas), and died at the hospital.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/taylor_johnnie/bio.jhtml (647 words)

	Johnnie Taylor -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		After a brief stint at Beverly Glen Records in 1982, Taylor signed with Malaco Records after the label heard him sing at blues giant (Click link for more info and facts about Z.Z. Hill) Z.Z. Hill's funeral in the spring of 1984.
		However, in 1996, Taylor's eighth album on the label, "Good Love", reached #1 on Billboard's blues charts and #15 on the trade journal's R&B charts.
		Johnnie Taylor died of a massive heart attack at Charleton Methodist Hospital on May 31, 2000
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/johnnie_taylor.htm (486 words)

	Johnnie Taylor: There's No Good in Goodbye - PopMatters Music Review
		Considering that this is a posthumous collection of outtakes and unused tracks amassed from Johnnie Taylor's 16 years at Malaco, the first pleasant surprise is that these are all "real" songs: no drawn-out improvisations, no instrumental jams, and no obscure live and alternate versions barely discernible from the originals.
		Taylor's voice is strong and expressive and, when he gets his vocals around a good song, he definitely knows what to do with it.
		Even when Taylor's narrator is the presumable cuckolder, as in "Please Sign the Dotted Line", he hopes that the woman he has fallen in love will be able to start a new life with him.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/t/taylorjohnny-theresnogood.shtml (981 words)

	CD review: "In Control"
		Johnnie Taylor, a contemporary of Al Green and Smokey Robinson, is from the era of RandB when the initials really stood for rhythm and blues — a term first applied in the '50s to music with a dance rhythm and blues-based melody.
		The strength of Taylor is that, whether delivering a blues or a Top-40-styled pop tune, he brings his Southern musical sensibility to each song, lifting the most banal to a level of artistic integrity that transcends the sometimes limited material on this release.
		Taylor shows more of a gospel influence on "I Found a Love." The traditional-style female backing vocals only add to the feeling of gospel inflection of Taylor's own singing.
	www.trageser.com /archive/music/album-taylor-johnnie.html (471 words)

	Review
		The late Johnnie Taylor is best remembered, at least by the masses, for one incredibly hot song: "Who's Makin' Love." You remember: "who's makin' love to your old lady while you were out makin' love?" Yeah, that scorched, but it was just a taste and not even a representative one.
		Taylor's journey into the secular world is documented quite well here, with early, raw but oh-so-fine tracks as well as liner note information about how it happened.
		Johnnie Taylor could sing anything you put in front of him, but when you put the blue lights up and brought the tempo down, the man was pure magic.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-january01/reviews/review_johnnie_taylor.html (674 words)

	"Disco Lady"
		Johnnie returned to Memphis and, on impulse, dropped in at the office of Stax Records.
		Johnnie's last Top 40 pop hit was "Somebody's Gettin' It" (#33, 1976), although several of his singles appeared on the R&B chart through 1990.
		One of the most versatile and durable recording artists of the modern pop era, Johnnie Taylor continued to tour through the Nineties and also recorded a string of well-received albums, mostly in a soul-blues style, for the Malaco label during the past decade.
	www.superseventies.com /1976_1singles.html (755 words)

	Rockzillaworld Johnnie Taylor "There's No Good In Goodbye" By David Pilot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Taylor spent sixteen years recording for the Malaco label, and this record serves as a posthumous compilation of various outtakes and unrecorded efforts from that span.
		It seems clear Taylor never quite established a style as distinctive as that of Clarke or Redding, but in borrowing (at times heavily) from both, he did manage to construct a delivery that's his own.
		Fact is, for an artist who played within the rules of the genres he roamed, Johnnie Taylor developed a sense of self and authenticity that many of our current musical deconstructors (see Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Green Day) would sell their bassists to attain.
	www.rockzilla.net /pilot112.html (711 words)

	Variety.com - Johnnie Taylor
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		R&BR&B singer Johnnie Taylor, who stayed current for 40 years by moving from doo-wop to smooth soul to disco and then returning to his roots, died of a heart attack Wednesday in Dallas.
		Johnnie Harrison Taylor was born in Crawfordsville, Ark. He made his first recording in the early 1950s as part of the Five Echoes, a doo-wop group that had one release on the Chance label in Chicago.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117782211 (463 words)

	Jet: Three people declared children of famed singer Johnnie Taylor - Entertainment
		Fonda Bryant has been in court for two years fighting to prove that she is the daughter of the late singer Johnnie Taylor.
		Taylor died at age 62 of a heart attack at his residence in Duncanville, a south Dallas suburb (JET June 19, 2000).
		Taylor had a $1.5 million home in Dallas, a Mercedes, jewelry, including a Rolex, 3 acres of land in Hawaii and gold records, the Charlotte Observer reported.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_22_102/ai_94511221 (677 words)

	SacObserver.com [SOUL] Johnnie Taylor's Music Lives On (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Johnnie Taylor recorded extra tracks while making his albums, ensuring the Malaco label would be able to assemble a first-rate album of vault jewels after his death.
		Taylor, best known for his smash crossover pop hits "Who's Making Love" and "Disco Lady," was believed by many to possess one of the greatest soul voices, in a class with Otis Redding, Sam Cooke and Al Green.
		During his 16 years at Malaco, Taylor consistently recorded extra tracks while making his albums, ensuring that the label and his heirs would be able to assemble a first-rate album of vault jewels.
	www.sacobserver.com /soul/073003/johnnie_taylor.shtml (650 words)

	JOHNNIE TAYLOR
		Johnnie Harrison Taylor was born in Crawford, Arkansas on May 5, 1938, and reared in nearby West Memphis.
		Taylor would score with "ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY" in 1962, but his recording career bogged down temporarily when Sar's operations were suspended after the tragic death of Sam Cooke.
		Johnnie Taylor died of a heart attack on may 31st, 2000 and is buried at the Forrest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri.
	staxrecords.free.fr /jtaylor.htm (1600 words)

	CanEHdian.com: Johnnie Taylor
		Johnnie Taylor was one of those artists that transcended time and style, offering literally dozens of recordings to his modest fan base throughout the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s.
		A protégé of Sam Cooke, Taylor had all of the bases of the rhythm-and-blues repertoire covered, floating from Deep Soul to Retro-Soul to Southern Soul to plain old Soul.
		Taylor died suddenly from a heart attack in 2000, and this release only furthers his legendary status.
	www.canehdian.com /non/artists/t/johnnietaylor/funksoulbrother.html (359 words)

	Johnny Taylor
		Taylor switched to secular music in 1961; releases on Cooke's Sar and Derby labels betrayed his mentor's obvious influence.
		Taylor's first album there, This Is The Night (1984), reaffirmed his gritty, blues-edged approach, a feature consolidated on Wall To Wall, Lover Boy and Crazy 'Bout You.
		Taylor had one of the great voices of the era: expressive graceful and smooth, and yet it is a mystery why he failed to reach the heights of the likes of Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye and Wilson Pickett.
	feroz.8m.com /johnnie_taylor (307 words)

	Jet: Johnnie Taylor, Soul Music Legend, Dies Of Apparent Heart Attack At 62 In Texas - Obituary
		Johnnie Taylor, whose 1976 Disco Lady was a hit on the dance floor and on the pop charts, recently died of an apparent heart attack.
		Taylor was stricken at his home in suburban Duncanville and died at Charlton Methodist Medical Center in Dallas, TX, according to authorities.
		Five years later Taylor earned another chart success with the song Cheaper To Keep Her, which was a Top 20 hit.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_2_98/ai_62925018 (400 words)

	Malaco - Blues / R&B
		For decades, from the turbulent sixties to the new millennium, Johnnie was in the spotlight, on the radio, and on the stage.
		Floyd Taylor spent many years in the shadow of his famous father, although it was a loving and caring shadow.
		The aura of Johnnie Taylor's stellar career as a recording and performing artist was a flame that melted the wax on most wings daring to draw close.
	www.malaco.com /Catalog/Blues-R-B/Floyd-Taylor/list.php (655 words)

	JOHNNIE TAYLOR SPECIAL
		Johnnie Taylor, maybe Dallas' best-known ambassador of a pure American art form, would head to the airport or back his big tour bus onto Marsalis Avenue and move out on another smooth musical odyssey that would take him from Oak Cliff to points around the world.
		When elegant and often private Johnnie Taylor would glide in the general direction of your neighborhood, he'd be preparing to preach about love and all its mysterious, smoky, inconsistent, incandescent and bittersweet vagaries.
		Taylor recorded a number of critically and commercially successful albums for Malaco, many of them steeped in the classic soul music genre that he had helped to invent in the 1960s and 1970s.
	staxrecords.free.fr /jtaylorspecial.htm (2770 words)

	Johnnie Taylor - Eargasm: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Johnnie Taylor [+]'s biggest hit album also proved his undoing.
		It was not only a number one hit, but the song of the year for 1976, and Taylor was shoved into territory he wasn't comfortable in.
		Taylor eventually left the label after subsequent attempts to pigeonhole him as a dance singer bombed.
	www.music.com /release/eargasm/1 (263 words)

	Johnnie Taylor - Lifetime: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It's true that you have to be a pretty deep Taylor fan to commit to nearly four hours of his music.
		It's also true that even if you are a big Taylor fan, you're likely to need some patience to last through some of the average cuts, or his stylistic transition from gospel to soul to disco and retro-soul.
		For the remainder of disc one and some of disc two, there are plenty of fine soul-blues cuts from his early days at Stax in the mid-to-late '60s that will be familiar to relatively few listeners, his fine soul-blues-gospel vocal blend resulting in some of his finest work.
	www.music.com /release/lifetime/5 (466 words)

	Review - Johnnie Taylor: There's No Good in Goodbye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Johnnie Taylor began his musical career in Gospel music with the Melody Kings, and later the Soul Stirrers, but he's perhaps best known for his work on Stax/Volt and the label with which he spent the last fifteen years of his life, Malaco.
		The Philosopher of Soul recorded a dozen records, until a heart attack, likely brought on by the cumulative effects of years of hard living, felled Johnnie in 2000.
		His vocal skills are in fine form on "If You're Looking for a Fool" and "Take Me to the Mardi Gras." There's plenty of soul on There's No Good in Goodbye, and this posthumously released record is an outstanding introduction to a great soul singer.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-september03/reviews/review_johnnie_taylor.html (177 words)

	Johnnie Taylor, 1938-2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Taylor, who died on May 31, 2000, at age 62, scored his only No. 1 pop single with "Disco Lady." As a result, Taylor was labeled as a disco artist, even though "Disco Lady" wasn't really a disco song, as it lacked the driving beat characteristic of that genre.
		A more fitting name for Taylor was the title given him by his former record label, Stax Records: "The Philosopher of Soul." During his years with Stax, Taylor established himself as one of soul music's biggest stars.
		When Stax Records folded in the mid-1970s, Taylor was signed by Columbia Records, where he recorded the album, "Eargasm," which contained his biggest hit, "Disco Lady." The song was the first record to be certified as a platinum single for two million in sales.
	www.bluesmusicnow.com /taylor60.html (541 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Gotta Get The Groove Back - Johnnie Taylor at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Johnnie Taylor not only saw "Soul Heaven," but is equally as great as the artists names he mentioned.
		Johnnie was born in West Memphis, the sister city of one ot the south's greatest music cities, Memphis.
		What made it triumphant was that Johnnie wrote several songs while at Malaco.
	www.epinions.com /musc-review-14AB-A1B510-39A74E52-prod1 (507 words)

	Amazon.com: Eargasm: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		When Johnnie Taylor recorded Eargasm, he was coming off a distinguished soul career at Stax, and disco seemed like alien territory to his rough, gospel-trained voice.
		Johnnie Taylor was one of the last of the soul greats.
		Taylor would go on to make some very good cd's, but stick with this one.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000IIWX?v=glance (601 words)

	Johnnie Taylor - Super Taylor
		Johnnie Taylor is one of the DEFINITAVE singers in Soul Music and he deserved better treatment!
		IMHO, Johnnie Taylor (the "Blues Wailer", as some of the DJ's on the old, original WVON radio station, here in Chicago, called him...) was, indeed, BADD!
		Throughout the 1970s Staton and Taylor often performed together until she returned to gospel music in 1982.
	www.soul-patrol.com /soul/jtaylor.html (925 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: The Johnnie Taylor Philosophy Continues [Import] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Taylor's rendition of Parliarment's "I Wanna Testify" made an impact on the charts, and is interesting, but his voice was worthy of better.
		Johnnie Taylor belongs in the pantheon of great fl male soul singers, chilling with Al Green, Otis Redding, James Brown, Sam Cooke, Ted Hawkins, and a few select others.
		If you're a fan of old-school soul, funk, and randb, then you should have at least a few Johnnie Taylor albums in your collection, and "The Philosophy Continues" is a fine one to start with.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000ZL3 (490 words)

	Johnnie Taylor News: "Philosopher of Soul" Johnnie Taylor Dead At 62 >> liveDaily
		Johnnie Taylor (music), who was dubbed the "Philosopher of Soul" by Stax Records publicists in the late '60s, died at a hospital near Dallas on Wednesday (5/31) after apparently suffering a massive heart attack at his home.
		A native of Crawfordsville, Ark., Taylor began singing with doo-wop group the Five Echoes in the '50s, but first gained national attention when he replaced Sam Cooke in R&B group the Soul Stirrers in 1957.
		Though probably best known for his biggest hit "Disco Lady," which topped the charts in 1976, Taylor was said to have been more comfortable singing R&B and gospel, and was an important part of the stable of artists at Memphis' Stax Records.
	www.livedaily.com /news/1265.html (431 words)

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