This is Your Night

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

Notes: Personnel: Johnnie Taylor (vocals); Jimmy Johnson , Dino Zimmerman (guitar); Brian Gum, John Frantz, Bennett Randman, Linda Geidel, Bob McNally, Mickey Davis, Peggy Plucker, Janet Dressler, Claudette Hampton (strings); Jim Horn (saxophone, horns); Harrison Calloway, Ben Cauley, Charles Rose, Harvey Thompson (horns); Carson Whitsett (keyboards); Ray Griffin (bass guitar); James Robertson (drums); Cathy Young, Doug Williams , Frank Williams, Jewel Bass, Leonard Williams, Melvin Williams, Thomisene Anderson (background vocals). Arranger: Harrison Calloway. Johnnie Taylor departed Beverly Glenn and made an immediate and welcome impact with his debut at Malaco. They continued having him do evocative ballads like the title cut, mixed in a few uptempo wailers, and were close to putting Taylor back in the ball game. They weren't able to duplicate their Z.Z. Hill success, but Taylor was making music and singing tunes that he felt and believed in, and the results were obvious. ~ 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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