Little Johnny Taylor - The Galaxy Years (2006)

2012-01-22T19:34:24Z

Little Johnny Taylor - The Galaxy Years (2006)


01 - You'll Need Another Favor
02 - What You Need Is A Ball
03 - Part Time Love
04 - Somewhere Down The Line
05 - Since I Found A New Love
06 - My Heart Is Filled With Pain
07 - First Class Love
08 - If You Love Me (Like You Say)
09 - You Win, I Lose
10 - Nightingale Melody
11 - I Smell Trouble
12 - True Love					play
13 - For Your Precious Love
14 - I've Never Had A Woman Like You Before
15 - Somebody's Got To Pay
16 - Help Yourself
17 - One More Chance
18 - Please Come Home For Christmas
19 - All I Want Is You					play
20 - Zig Zag Lightning
21 - The Things That I Used To Do
22 - Big Blue Diamonds
23 - I Know You Hear Me Calling
24 - Driving Wheel
25 - Sometimey Woman
26 - Double Or Nothing

Vocals – Little Johnny Taylor

Some folks still get them mixed up, so to get it straight from the outset, Little Johnny Taylor was best known for his scorching slow blues smashes "Part Time Love" (for Bay Area-based Galaxy Records in 1963) and 1971's "Everybody Knows About My Good Thing" for Ronn Records in Shreveport, LA. This Johnny Taylor was definitely not the suave Sam Cooke protégé who blitzed the charts with "Who's Making Love" for Stax in 1968; that's Johnnie Taylor, who added to the confusion by covering "Part Time Love" for Stax. Another similarity between the two Taylors: both hailed from strong gospel backgrounds.

Little Johnny came to Los Angeles in 1950 and did a stint with the Mighty Clouds of Joy before going secular. Influenced by Little Willie John, he debuted as an R&B artist with a pair of 45s for Hunter Hancock's Swingin' logo, but his career didn't soar until he inked a pact with Fantasy's Galaxy subsidiary in 1963 (where he benefited from crisp production by Cliff Goldsmith and Ray Shanklin's arrangements).

The gliding mid-tempo blues "You'll Need Another Favor," firmly in a Bobby Bland mode, was Taylor's first chart item. He followed it up with the tortured R&B chart-topper "Part Time Love," which found him testifying in gospel-fired style over Arthur Wright's biting guitar and a grinding, horn-leavened downbeat groove. The singer also did fairly well with "Since I Found a New Love" in 1964 and "Zig Zag Lightning" in 1966.

Taylor's tenure at Stan Lewis' Ronn imprint elicited the slow blues smash "Everybody Knows About My Good Thing" in 1971, and a similarly witty hit follow-up, "Open House at My House," the next year (both were covered later by Z.Z. Hill for Malaco). While at Ronn, Little Johnny cut some duets with yet another Taylor, this one named Ted (no, they weren't related either). Though he recorded only sparingly during the 1980s and 1990s, he remained an active performer until his death in 2002. --- Bill Dahl, allmusic.com

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Little Johnny Taylor – Greatest Hits (1991)

2012-01-18T09:52:04Z

Little Johnny Taylor – Greatest Hits (1991)


1. Part Time Love
2. I Smell Trouble 
3. Zig Zag Lightning
4. You'll Need Another Favor
5. Double or Nothing
6. Big Blue Diamonds
7. Somebody's Got to Pay
8. Darling, Believe in Me 
9. If You Love Me (Like You Say)
10. I Know You Hear Me Calling
11. Sometimey Woman
12. You Win, I Lose
13. My Heart Is Filled With Pain 
14. First Class Love 
15. Since I Found a New Love
16. Somewhere Down the Line
17. One More Chance

Arthur G. Wright - guitar, bandleader, background vocals
Little Johnny Taylor - vocals
Lonnie Bolden - Tenor Saxophone
Jerry Clark - guitar
Jimmy Benson - Tenor Saxophone, Soloist

The gospel-tinged and decidedly soul-inflected 1963-1968 blues sides of Little Johnny Taylor on Galaxy Records benefitted from marvelous horn-powered arrangements by Ray Shanklin that brilliantly pushed Taylor's melismatic vocals. Naturally, the impassioned "Part Time Love" is included, along with the Bobby Bland-tinged mid-tempo groover "You'll Need Another Favor," a delicious "Since I Found a New Love," and the blistering "You Win, I Lose." Seventeen tracks in all, many of them bolstered by Arthur Wright's stinging guitar. ---Bill Dahl, AMG

Little Johnny Taylor (born Johnny Lamont Merrett; February 11, 1943 – May 17, 2002) was an American blues and soul singer, who made recordings throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and continued public performances through the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Gregory, Arkansas, United States,[1] he is frequently confused with his contemporary and near namesake Johnnie Taylor, especially since the latter made a cover version of the song that Little Johnny Taylor was most famous for, "Part Time Love" (1963), and the fact that both men began their careers as gospel singers.

Little Johnny Taylor moved to Los Angeles in 1950, and sang with the Mighty Clouds of Joy before moving into secular music. Influenced by Little Willie John, he first recorded as an R&B artist for the Swingin' record label.

However, he did not achieve major success until signing for San Francisco-based Fantasy Records' subsidiary label, Galaxy. His first hit was the mid-tempo blues "You'll Need Another Favor," sung in the style of Bobby Bland, with arrangement by Ray Shanklin and produced by Cliff Goldsmith. The follow-up, "Part Time Love", became his biggest hit, reaching #1 in the U.S. Billboard R&B chart, and # 19 on the pop chart, in October 1963. However, follow-ups on the Galaxy label were much less successful.

By 1971, Taylor had moved to the Ronn label subsidiary of Jewel Records in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he had his second R&B Top 10 hit with "Everybody Knows About My Good Thing".[3] The following year, he had another hit with "Open House at My House". While at Ronn, Taylor also recorded some duets with Ted Taylor (also unrelated).

Though he recorded only sparingly during the 1980s and 1990s, he remained an active performer until his death in May 2002 in Conway, Arkansas. --- answers.com

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Little Johnny Taylor - The Galaxy Years (2006)

Little Johnny Taylor – Greatest Hits (1991)