- Who's Making Love... (Remastered) · 1968
- Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits · 1970
- Gotta Get the Groove Back · 1999
- DISCO - 100 Hit's - Dance floor fillers from the 70s and 80s inc. The Jacksons, Boney M & Earth Wind & Fire · 2010
- Stax Profiles: Johnnie Taylor · 2006
- Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits · 1970
- Funk Soul Brother · 1996
- Funk Soul Brother · 1996
- Who's Making Love... (Remastered) · 1968
- Who's Making Love... (Remastered) · 1968
- Soul'd Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection · 2023
- Soul'd Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection · 2023
- Soul'd Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection · 2023
Essential Albums
Singles & EPs
Compilations
- 1985
About Johnnie Taylor
Known as the “Philosopher of Soul”, singer Johnnie Taylor touched on gospel, R&B and disco over the course of his decades-long career. He’s perhaps best known for his 1976 No. 1 smash “Disco Lady”. • Taylor grew up in West Memphis, Arkansas, and got his start singing in church. As a teen, he sang with the gospel group The Melody Kings and befriended Sam Cooke, then a member of the popular gospel outfit The Soul Stirrers. • He moved to Chicago in the early ’50s and sang with the doo-wop group The Five Echoes and the gospel group The Highway QCs. In 1957, he replaced Cooke in the Soul Stirrers. • In the early ’60s, after being fired from The Soul Stirrers, Taylor became the first artist signed to Cooke’s SAR label. He released a string of singles before the label dissolved following Cooke’s death in 1964. • Taylor signed with Stax Records in 1966 and broke through with the 1968 smash “Who’s Making Love”, which topped the R&B charts and went Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. • While at Stax, Taylor notched two more R&B chart-toppers: “Jody’s Got Your Girl and Gone” (1971) and “I Believe In You (You Believe In Me)” (1974). • Having moved to Columbia Records after Stax folded, Taylor topped the pop and R&B charts with 1976’s “Disco Lady”, the first-ever single to be certified platinum. • Taylor continued recording throughout the ’90s and died in May 2000 at age 66.
- HOMETOWN
- Crawfordsville, AR, United States
- BORN
- 5 May 1934
- GENRE
- R&B/Soul