Latest Release
- 23 FEB 2024
- 2 Songs
- Carolyn Crawford - Hypnotised Soul · 2006
- Get Up And Move / Sugar Boy - Single · 2024
- Get Up And Move / Sugar Boy - Single · 2024
- Back To Class, Vol. 2 · 2023
- Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities Vol. 7 · 2021
- Tribute to Funk Brother Eddie Willis · 2017
- Let's Start the Dance - The Best of Carolyn Crawford · 2012
- Let's Start the Dance - The Best of Carolyn Crawford · 2012
- The Stars of Northern Soul Vol. 1 · 2010
- A Cellarful of Motown (Vol. 4) · 2010
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About Carolyn Crawford
US-born soul singer Carolyn Crawford won a 1963 talent contest staged by radio station WCHB in Detroit, the prize being a contract with the city’s biggest label, Motown Records. Her debut single, ‘Forget About Me’, proved unsuccessful, but she had a minor US hit in 1964 with Smokey Robinson’s ‘My Smile Is Just A Frown (Turned Upside Down)’. Her third release, ‘When Someone’s Good To You’, flopped in the USA, but became a cult record among British soul fans. Crawford left Motown shortly afterwards, working as a backing vocalist and session singer until joining the Detroit soul group Chapter 8 in 1975. She left that group a year later, to be replaced by Anita Baker, and after a spell with the vocal trio Hodges, James & Smith, she relaunched her solo career in 1979, registering another minor hit with ‘Coming On Strong’ on Mercury. After several years with Chapter 8 she recorded for Ian Levine’s Motor City label, releasing Heartaches.
- HOMETOWN
- Detroit, MI, United States
- BORN
- 1949
- GENRE
- R&B/Soul