Joe Simon
Joe Simon
Top Songs
| 1 | Drowning in the Sea of Love [Rerecorded] | ||
| 2 | Power of Love [Rerecorded] | ||
| 3 | Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor) [Rercorded] | ||
| 4 | Chokin' Kind | ||
| 5 | The Chokin' Kind - Original |
Albums
Mar 2011 • 20 songs
Jun 2008 • 17 songs
Jun 2006 • 5 songs
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Biography
His plaintive baritone equally conversant with R&B and country phrasing, Joe Simon married the two genres with startling success during the late '60s, adapting Nashville material to the soul sound and repeatedly coming up a winner. Simon began recording in the Bay Area, but a switch in recording sites (first to Muscle Shoals for Vee-Jay and then to Nashville after signing with disc jockey John Richbourg's Sound Stage 7 label in 1966) heightened his national appeal. With easy access to prime country-oriented material, Simon soon found his true calling, scoring major hits with "...