The Chairman Of The Board - Soul Agenda - flac - covers

The Chairman Of The Board - Soul Agenda



Tribute to General Norman Johnson (The Showmen/Chairman Of the Board)



General Norman Johnson (May 23, 1943, Norfolk, Virginia – October



13, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia)[1] had a hit as the lead singer of The



Showmen in the early 1960s, with the New Orleans rock and roll



anthem "It Will Stand" and Carolina Beach classic "39-21-46".



When Holland/Dozier/Holland left Motown in 1967 to establish their



own Invictus/Hot Wax group of record labels, they teamed Johnson



up with Eddie Custis, Danny Woods and Canadian born Harrison



Kennedy as the new company's flagship act, under the appropriate



name "Chairmen of the Board". Custis left the group after their



second album.



Though they all had a turn at lead vocals, it was Johnson's quirky



hiccup-laden style and his songwriting which became increasingly



showcased, with the group selling a million plus copies of their single,



"Give Me Just a Little More Time". The disc was released in December



1969, reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, with one million sales



confirmed in May 1970, when the group were presented with a gold



record by the R.I.A.A.[2] Chairmen of the Board also scored with



"You've Got Me Dangling On A String", "Pay To the Piper",



"Everything's Tuesday", "Working On A Building Of Love", "Elmo



James", "Finders Keepers", and the original version of "Patches", a



Grammy Award winning ballad when later covered with success by



Clarence Carter.



Kennedy, Woods and Johnson all went on to record solo albums,



whilst Johnson wrote and produced (with Greg Perry) for other



Invictus/Hot Wax acts, notably Honey Cone. Kennedy having left,



Johnson and Woods toured the UK in 1976 with six musicians as



Chairmen of the Board, but were not as successful as before. The act



was broken up immediately afterwards, Johnson having signed for



Arista Records as a solo artist.



In 1978, Johnson reformed the Chairmen of the Board along with



Danny Woods and Ken Knox. In 1980, the new Chairmen founded



Surfside Records, for which the group still records. Surfside Records



is an independent record label based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The



reformed group had a regional hit with "Carolina Girls", a popular



beach music song in North and South Carolina.



General Johnson continued to perform with Woods and Knox as the



Chariman of the Board until his death from lung cancer in 2010



R. I. P. General Norman Johnson

May 23, 1943 – October 13, 2010





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                             Track List

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1          Chairman Of The Board

2          Working On A Building Of Love

3          Bravo, Hooray

4          (You've Got Me) Dangling On A String

5          Everything's Tuesday

6          I'll Come Crawling

7          Elmo James

8          Give Me Just A Little More Time

9          All We Need Is Understanding

10          Men Are Getting Scarce

11          Let Me Down Easy

12          Pay To The Piper

13          Patches

14          Tricked And Trapped (By A Tricky Trapper)

15          Bless You

16          When Will She Tell Me She Needs Me

17          Try On Me Love For Size

18          Bittersweet

19          Everybody's Got A Song To Sing

20          Finders Keepers



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