Performance · Production
Joe South
Atlanta, United States · 1940-02-28 – 2012-09-05
Joe South is credited on 6,087 releases across 1,485 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
6,087
Pressings credited
1,485
Albums
8
Decades active
689
In collections
Biography
Joe South (born Joseph Alfred Souter; February 28, 1940 – September 5, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Best known for his songwriting, South won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1970 for "Games People Play" and was again nominated for the award in 1972 for "Rose Garden".
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
6,087 releases · 1,485 albums · active 1958–2026
- Performance · 6,408
- Production · 527
- Other credits · 241
Studios: Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville · Fame Recording Studios · CBS Studios, Nashville · Star-Club Hamburg
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Blonde On Blonde
1966

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
1966

Lady Soul
1968

Deepest Purple (The Very Best Of Deep Purple)
1980

Shades Of Deep Purple
1968

New Riders Of The Purple Sage
1971

Aretha Arrives
1967

Live! At The Star-Club In Hamburg, Germany; 1962
1977

An Anthology
1972

The Cutting Edge 1965 – 1966
2015

K
1996

Borderline
1980

Nightwatch
1978

When We Rock, We Rock And When We Roll, We Roll
1978

The Original Mono Recordings
2010

Is It Because I'm Black
1970

Hawaii Five-O
1969

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2019

Low In High School
2017

Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective
2013

Concerto For Group And Orchestra
1969

No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (A Martin Scorsese Picture)
2006

On Stage (February, 1970)
1970

= 1
2024
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Deep Purple
- Billy Joe Royal
- The Tams
- Lynn Anderson
- Unknown Artist
- The Beatles
- Glen Campbell
Around the web
See who really made the music.
Gatefold maps every producer, engineer, and player across your shelf — the credits no one else surfaces.
Start your shelf →Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.
