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JOHNNY & JACKEY, die u. a. für Tri-Phi und Anna Records
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Johnny Bristol and Robert "Jackey" Beavers enjoyed a five-record career on Gwen Gordy and Billy "Roquel" Davis' (aka Tyran Carlo) Anna Records and Gwen and Harvey Fuqua's Tri-Phi label. Bristol, from Morgantown, NC, met Beavers, from Cartersville, GA, when the Air Force transferred him to Fort Custer in Battle Creek, MI, where Beavers was stationed. After competing with each other in Air Force talent shows, the two singer/songwriters decided to form a musical duo.
Battle Creek was home to the El Grotto Lounge, a rocking, bucket-of-blood establishment where Junior Walker & the All Stars performed as the house band. Johnny & Jackey progressed from talent shows to cash money gigs at the El Grotto, backed by the All Stars, and were discovered by Gwen Gordy, who signed them to Anna Records and became their manager. An initial single, "Lonely & Blue," a Beavers, Bristol, and Billy Davis composition, was released in March 1960. It only got local recognition, but was featured in the El Grotto's jukebox. A second Anna release came out October 1960, but "Hoy Hoy" was strictly local, in fact, many are unaware of Johnny & Jackey's Anna recordings.
Anna dissolved when Davis left to form Check Mate Records, encouraged to do so when Gwen Gordy switched her affections from him to Harvey Fuqua. Gwen Gordy and Fuqua started Tri-Phi & Harvey Records and Johnny & Jackey went along. Their first Tri-Phi single, "Carry Your Own Load" (1961), received more exposure than previous singles, but never charted very high; Junior Walker recorded it years later on Soul Records. "Someday We'll Be Together," released January 1962, lacked a full-blown promotional effort but got some play in surrounding states. With Fuqua's clout, the duo performed at bars and venues in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, performing at times with the Spinners, Shorty Long, the Challengers Three, and the Quails. "Someday" sold millions when Bristol cut it using Diana Ross & the Supremes; Beavers co-wrote it with Bristol and Fuqua. The final Johnny & Jackey single, the groovy "Baby Dontcha Worry," did little; Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell later recorded it on one of their albums. Johnny & Jackey performed a lot, with Beavers being the vocally dominant member.
A negative cash flow caused Gwen and Harvey Fuqua to fold and throw in with Motown. The duo became Motown artists and songwriters by default; Bristol stayed but Beavers left, opting to try his luck with Roquel, who was now Chess Records' A&R director. Bristol started writing and producing with Fuqua for the Spinners, but really hit his stride on Gaye and Terrell's first album, Edwin Starr's "25 Miles," David Ruffin's "My Whole World Was Empty (The Moment You Left Me)," and Diana Ross & the Supremes' monster. Bristol became family with Barry Gordy -- he married Iris Gordy, Barry Gordy's niece. But when dissension with Motown began (Johnny wanted to sing) and his marriage hit the skids, he left, divorced his wife, and started producing acts like Tavares and singing again. The only chance he got to shine at Motown was cueing Diana Ross on "Someday We'll Be Together." He scored his biggest solo success when "Hang on in There Baby" assaulted both the R&B and the pop charts. Initially, Beavers' move to Chess appeared promising, and he enjoyed his biggest single, "Sling Shot," on Checker Records. But the deal was short-lived and he moved on to record for a string of labels with little success. While flops, they're valued Northern soul items, including "Come Back My Love" on Nation, "Singing a Funky Song for My Baby" on ZS7, "Bring Me All Your Heartaches" on Grand Land Records, and "We're Not Too Young to Fall in Love," credited as the Jackey Beavers Show.
Beavers cranked out secular music until the late '70s. He's credited with more than 110 songs registered with B.M.I., many of which he wrote and produced for others, including Joe Simon, Ella Washington, and Mighty Elegant's beautiful "I'm Falling in Love With You" on Westbound Records. Beavers later produced records for Nashville DJ John Richbourg (WLAC) and toured with the Continental Showstoppers. He ran the Brothers Three nightclub in Cartersville for a while with his brother, but gave it to his brother after realizing he couldn't stand nightclubs.
Moving back to Cartersville, where he picked cotton as a youngster, Beavers went to college, earned a degree, and became an ordained minister, pastoring at New Hope Baptist Church and at Glory Harvester Church. He served as executive assistant to Joe Frank Harris, the Governor of Georgia, for eight years; executive assistant to Bobby Whitworth, the Commissioner of Georgia's Department of Corrections, for three years; and aide to Tom Murphy, Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, for seven years. In addition, he became a columnist for the Daily Tribune News in Cartersville. Bristol remained in the Detroit area and produced, performed, and wrote gospel music. ~ Andrew Hamilton, All Music Guide
Jackey Beavers ranks among the unsung pioneers of the Detroit soul music scene of the 1960s. Born Robert L. Beavers and raised in Cartersville, GA, after high school he joined the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Fort Custer in Battle Creek, MI, where he began singing in military talent shows. Beavers regularly competed against fellow singer/songwriter Johnny Bristol, and in time the rivals agreed to join forces, performing under the name Johnny & Jackey. By 1959 they were appearing regularly at Battle Creek's El Grotto Lounge, where a then-unknown Junior Walker & the All-Stars served as the house band; Berry Gordy's sister Gwendolyn ultimately offered to manage Johnny & Jackey and signed them to her Anna Records label, where they debuted in February 1960 with "Let's Go to a Movie, Baby." "Hoy Hoy" followed in September, but when Gordy's business partner Billy "Roquel" Davis left Anna to form his own label, CheckMate, she formed a new imprint, Tri-Phi, with Harvey Fuqua. Johnny & Jackey went with her, and in 1961 released "Carry Your Own Load," a minor regional hit.
The duo's biggest record, "Someday We'll Be Together" -- written by Beavers, Bristol, and Fuqua -- followed a year later. After one final single, "Baby Dontcha Worry," Johnny & Jackey split, and Beavers cast his lot with Davis, by now the A&R director at Checker. His debut for the label, 1965's "Sling Shot," would prove Beavers' biggest solo hit, but his tenure with the company nevertheless proved brief and he spent the next several years skipping from label to label, generating a series of singles ("Lover Come Back," "I Need My Baby," "Bring Me All Your Heartaches," and "We're Not Too Young to Fall in Love" among them) that sold poorly but were later resurrected in the clubs of Britain's Northern soul circuit. Beavers earned his greatest renown as a songwriter -- the old Johnny & Jackey single "Someday We'll Be Together" was re-recorded in 1969 by the Supremes as Diana Ross' last single with the group, going on to top the charts. He also penned material for artists ranging from Joe Simon to Ella Washington, and for a while worked as a producer, including a stint for Nashville DJ John Richbourg and station WLAC. Beavers eventually returned home to Cartersville to own and operate his own club, Brothers Three. He also went back to school, becoming an ordained minister and preaching at Cartersville's New Hope Baptist Church and later the Glory Harvester Church. Beavers then mounted a career in politics, serving as executive assistant to longtime Georgia governor Joe Frank Harris; for many years, he also wrote a weekly newspaper column for Cartersville's Daily Tribune News, All Music Guide
JOHNNY & JACKEY, die u. a. für Tri-Phi und Anna Records
aktiv waren...
ALL MUSIC GUIDE:
Biography
Johnny Bristol and Robert "Jackey" Beavers enjoyed a five-record career on Gwen Gordy and Billy "Roquel" Davis' (aka Tyran Carlo) Anna Records and Gwen and Harvey Fuqua's Tri-Phi label. Bristol, from Morgantown, NC, met Beavers, from Cartersville, GA, when the Air Force transferred him to Fort Custer in Battle Creek, MI, where Beavers was stationed. After competing with each other in Air Force talent shows, the two singer/songwriters decided to form a musical duo.
Battle Creek was home to the El Grotto Lounge, a rocking, bucket-of-blood establishment where Junior Walker & the All Stars performed as the house band. Johnny & Jackey progressed from talent shows to cash money gigs at the El Grotto, backed by the All Stars, and were discovered by Gwen Gordy, who signed them to Anna Records and became their manager. An initial single, "Lonely & Blue," a Beavers, Bristol, and Billy Davis composition, was released in March 1960. It only got local recognition, but was featured in the El Grotto's jukebox. A second Anna release came out October 1960, but "Hoy Hoy" was strictly local, in fact, many are unaware of Johnny & Jackey's Anna recordings.
Anna dissolved when Davis left to form Check Mate Records, encouraged to do so when Gwen Gordy switched her affections from him to Harvey Fuqua. Gwen Gordy and Fuqua started Tri-Phi & Harvey Records and Johnny & Jackey went along. Their first Tri-Phi single, "Carry Your Own Load" (1961), received more exposure than previous singles, but never charted very high; Junior Walker recorded it years later on Soul Records. "Someday We'll Be Together," released January 1962, lacked a full-blown promotional effort but got some play in surrounding states. With Fuqua's clout, the duo performed at bars and venues in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, performing at times with the Spinners, Shorty Long, the Challengers Three, and the Quails. "Someday" sold millions when Bristol cut it using Diana Ross & the Supremes; Beavers co-wrote it with Bristol and Fuqua. The final Johnny & Jackey single, the groovy "Baby Dontcha Worry," did little; Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell later recorded it on one of their albums. Johnny & Jackey performed a lot, with Beavers being the vocally dominant member.
A negative cash flow caused Gwen and Harvey Fuqua to fold and throw in with Motown. The duo became Motown artists and songwriters by default; Bristol stayed but Beavers left, opting to try his luck with Roquel, who was now Chess Records' A&R director. Bristol started writing and producing with Fuqua for the Spinners, but really hit his stride on Gaye and Terrell's first album, Edwin Starr's "25 Miles," David Ruffin's "My Whole World Was Empty (The Moment You Left Me)," and Diana Ross & the Supremes' monster. Bristol became family with Barry Gordy -- he married Iris Gordy, Barry Gordy's niece. But when dissension with Motown began (Johnny wanted to sing) and his marriage hit the skids, he left, divorced his wife, and started producing acts like Tavares and singing again. The only chance he got to shine at Motown was cueing Diana Ross on "Someday We'll Be Together." He scored his biggest solo success when "Hang on in There Baby" assaulted both the R&B and the pop charts. Initially, Beavers' move to Chess appeared promising, and he enjoyed his biggest single, "Sling Shot," on Checker Records. But the deal was short-lived and he moved on to record for a string of labels with little success. While flops, they're valued Northern soul items, including "Come Back My Love" on Nation, "Singing a Funky Song for My Baby" on ZS7, "Bring Me All Your Heartaches" on Grand Land Records, and "We're Not Too Young to Fall in Love," credited as the Jackey Beavers Show.
Beavers cranked out secular music until the late '70s. He's credited with more than 110 songs registered with B.M.I., many of which he wrote and produced for others, including Joe Simon, Ella Washington, and Mighty Elegant's beautiful "I'm Falling in Love With You" on Westbound Records. Beavers later produced records for Nashville DJ John Richbourg (WLAC) and toured with the Continental Showstoppers. He ran the Brothers Three nightclub in Cartersville for a while with his brother, but gave it to his brother after realizing he couldn't stand nightclubs.
Moving back to Cartersville, where he picked cotton as a youngster, Beavers went to college, earned a degree, and became an ordained minister, pastoring at New Hope Baptist Church and at Glory Harvester Church. He served as executive assistant to Joe Frank Harris, the Governor of Georgia, for eight years; executive assistant to Bobby Whitworth, the Commissioner of Georgia's Department of Corrections, for three years; and aide to Tom Murphy, Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, for seven years. In addition, he became a columnist for the Daily Tribune News in Cartersville. Bristol remained in the Detroit area and produced, performed, and wrote gospel music. ~ Andrew Hamilton, All Music Guide
Jackey Beavers ranks among the unsung pioneers of the Detroit soul music scene of the 1960s. Born Robert L. Beavers and raised in Cartersville, GA, after high school he joined the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Fort Custer in Battle Creek, MI, where he began singing in military talent shows. Beavers regularly competed against fellow singer/songwriter Johnny Bristol, and in time the rivals agreed to join forces, performing under the name Johnny & Jackey. By 1959 they were appearing regularly at Battle Creek's El Grotto Lounge, where a then-unknown Junior Walker & the All-Stars served as the house band; Berry Gordy's sister Gwendolyn ultimately offered to manage Johnny & Jackey and signed them to her Anna Records label, where they debuted in February 1960 with "Let's Go to a Movie, Baby." "Hoy Hoy" followed in September, but when Gordy's business partner Billy "Roquel" Davis left Anna to form his own label, CheckMate, she formed a new imprint, Tri-Phi, with Harvey Fuqua. Johnny & Jackey went with her, and in 1961 released "Carry Your Own Load," a minor regional hit.
The duo's biggest record, "Someday We'll Be Together" -- written by Beavers, Bristol, and Fuqua -- followed a year later. After one final single, "Baby Dontcha Worry," Johnny & Jackey split, and Beavers cast his lot with Davis, by now the A&R director at Checker. His debut for the label, 1965's "Sling Shot," would prove Beavers' biggest solo hit, but his tenure with the company nevertheless proved brief and he spent the next several years skipping from label to label, generating a series of singles ("Lover Come Back," "I Need My Baby," "Bring Me All Your Heartaches," and "We're Not Too Young to Fall in Love" among them) that sold poorly but were later resurrected in the clubs of Britain's Northern soul circuit. Beavers earned his greatest renown as a songwriter -- the old Johnny & Jackey single "Someday We'll Be Together" was re-recorded in 1969 by the Supremes as Diana Ross' last single with the group, going on to top the charts. He also penned material for artists ranging from Joe Simon to Ella Washington, and for a while worked as a producer, including a stint for Nashville DJ John Richbourg and station WLAC. Beavers eventually returned home to Cartersville to own and operate his own club, Brothers Three. He also went back to school, becoming an ordained minister and preaching at Cartersville's New Hope Baptist Church and later the Glory Harvester Church. Beavers then mounted a career in politics, serving as executive assistant to longtime Georgia governor Joe Frank Harris; for many years, he also wrote a weekly newspaper column for Cartersville's Daily Tribune News, All Music Guide
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