Biography
Johnnie Harrison Taylor (May 5, 1934 – May 31, 2000) was an American recording artist and songwriter who performed a wide variety of genres, from blues, rhythm and blues, soul, and gospel to pop, doo-wop, and disco. He was initially successful at Stax Records with the number-one R&B hits "Who's Making Love" (1968), "Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone" (1971) and "I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)" (1973), and reached number one on the US pop charts with "Disco Lady" in 1976. In 2022, Taylor was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Buhloone Mind State
1993
Beats, Rhymes And Life
1996
The Anthology
1999
Al Green Gets Next To You
1971
Roger Taylor's Fun In Space
1981
Only For The Lonely
1970
Wanted One Soul Singer
1967
Who's Making Love
1968
Taylored In Silk
1973
Boy Meets Girl
1969
UN Or U Out
2004
Sam Cooke's SAR Records Story 1959 - 1965
1994
Ever Ready
1978
Presenting Gospel Pearls
1962
Sam Cooke
1961
Mavis Staples / Only For The Lonely
1993
Jesus Gave Me Water
1993
Credited work
243 releases · 68 albums · active 1954–2025
- Performance · 321
- Production · 30
- Other credits · 8
- Engineering · 2
Studios: Muscle Shoals Sound Studios · Battery Studios, New York · New Daisy Theatre · Master Recorders
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Al Green
- The Soul Stirrers
- A Tribe Called Quest
- Ernie Smith
- Mavis Staples
- The Five Echoes
- Ben E. King