Lover Boy

Performer: Johnnie Taylor
Engineer: Wolf Stephenson; Tom Easley
Producer: Tommy Couch; Wolf Stephenson; Tommy Couch; Wolf Stephenson
Distributor: Select-O-Hits

Notes: Personnel: Johnnie Taylor (vocals); Jewel Bass, Thomisene Anderson, Catherine Henderson (vocals); Jimmy Johnson , Dino Zimmerman (guitar); Tim Mika, Steve Dressler, Bob McNally, Mickey Davis, Peggy Plucker, Janet Dressler, Claudette Hampton (strings); Sybil Cheesman (flute); Gary Armstrong, Harrison Calloway, Charles Rose, Harvey Thompson, Ronnie Eades (horns); Carson Whitsett (keyboards); Vickie Lancaster (percussion); James Robertson (drum programming). Audio Mixers: Wolf Stephenson; Pete Green. Recording information: Malaco Studios, Jackson, MS. Photographer: John Haynsworth. The title tune was a nice change of pace, part mocking and part confrontational. Otherwise, it was a standard Taylor record on Malaco -- lots of fine, earnest gospel/soul singing with blues underpinnings, expert production and arrangements, and one or two songs that might have become staples in the '60s or '70s. But you can't help feeling that time has passed many of the Malaco (and Ichiban) artists by. ~ Ron Wynn

Johnnie Taylor first achieved notoriety when he joined Sam Cooke's former group, the Soul Stirrers, in 1957. Taylor's blues-based R&B records of the '60s, like his biggest hit, "Who's Makin' Love?," featured an irresistible beat and Taylor's gruff, emphatic vocals. While he never achieved the fame of Otis Redding or Wilson Pickett, Taylor stuck around long enough to enjoy a second surge in popularity with the lusty hit "Disco Lady" in 1976.

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