“I went from the cotton field to the chicken coop to a superstar of rhythm and blues - you can’t tell me I ain’t gonna be nothin’,” Simon said in his 2016 documentary, Looking Back with Joe Simon.Īt the Apollo, he agreed to let a young soul band, the Jackson 5, appear on the same bill. “You can definitely pick his voice out of any crowd.”Įarly in his touring career, Simon played New York’s Apollo Theatre, where an employee told him he wouldn’t amount to anything.
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“He had a very different and distinct voice,” says his grandson, David Simon, a professional basketball player who toured with Simon toward the end of his R&B career in the ’80s. He was known as “The Mouth of the South,” compared to Otis Redding, Sam Cooke and, perhaps most aptly, Jackie Wilson. 1s and 14 top 10s on what is now called the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and a best R&B vocal performance, male Grammy for “The Chokin’ Kind.” He collaborated with Philly Sound hitmakers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff for 1971’s “Drowning In the Sea of Love,” then created the theme to 1973’s Cleopatra Jones. Nonetheless, Simon’s career moved quickly, as he landed three No. “I’ll take my time, because the artist who rushes overlooks a lot of things.”
“I don’t want to rush my career,” Simon told Billboard in 1968. Peter Nero, Grammy-Winning Pianist & Ex-Conductor of Philly Pops, Dies at 89
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