'Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone' This 1970 Johnnie Taylor hit may or may not have been the genesis for a popular Army running cadence. Both talk about the danger -- or likelihood -- of losing your ...

Before this, he had been in gospel outfits The Five Echoes – who he joined in 1951 or 1952 at age 17 – and, from 1957, The Highway QC’s, who Sam Cooke had passed through. In August 1960, he took on ...

Church and school are often the two places youngsters spend most of their time outside of home, so it’s only fitting that in 1945 five religious teen singers in Chicago named their group after these ...

Johnnie Taylor reportedly was born May 3, 1934, in Crawfordsville (Crittenden County), although he always claimed to be four years younger. He was raised in West Memphis by his grandmother. Like Lee ...

Due out October 25th on LP, CD, and digital formats, the collection features 12 heart-breaking songs of passion and betrayal. Summer may be over, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t turn up the heat ...