Biography
Joseph Simon (September 7, 1936 – December 13, 2021) was an American soul and R&B musician. He began as a gospel artist singing with the Golden West Singers in the Bay Area in California. A consistent presence on the US charts between 1964 and 1981, Simon charted 51 U.S. Pop and R&B chart hits between 1964 and 1981, including eight times in the US top forty, 38 times in the top 40 of the US R&B chart, with 13 chart hits in Canada. His biggest hits included three number one entries on the US Billboard R&B chart: "The Chokin' Kind" (1969), "Power of Love" (1972), and "Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor)" (1975). In 2021, he was one of the 60 nominees for the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Full Clip: A Decade Of Gang Starr
1999
The Best Of Percy Sledge
1969
Super Bad
1972
Cleopatra Jones (Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture)
1973
Child Of The Seventies
2006
Boyz N The Hood (Music From The Motion Picture)
1991
Straight Checkn 'Em
1991
When A Man Loves...
1980
Star-Collection
1972
The Percy Sledge Way
1967
Mellow, Mellow Right On / Overdose
1979
Martha Reeves
1974
Millie Jackson
1972
The Sounds Of Simon
1971
That's Soul 3
1968
Credited work
687 releases · 138 albums · active 1963–2025
- Performance · 987
- Production · 238
- Other credits · 41
- Engineering · 12
Studios: Mediasound · Big Beat Soundlabs · Muscle Shoals Sound Studios · Music City Recorders, Nashville
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Percy Sledge
- Martha Reeves
- Comptons Most Wanted
- Millie Jackson
- Ben E. King
- Jackie Verdell
- Quinn Harris