Randy Brown (musician)
Randy Brown is an American R&B singer, born in Memphis, Tennessee.
Brown became a solo singer after recording with Memphis group, The Newcomers, who had the R&B hit "Pin The Tail On The Donkey" in 1971, on Stax Records. After several unsuccessful singles on Stax subsidiary label, Truth in 1974, he was persuaded to return to the studio by writer/producer Carl Hampton in 1978. Hampton produced and wrote all of the material on Brown's debut album with Homer Banks, another long-time Memphis producer/musician. Brown recorded four albums for Casablanca Records' subsidiaries, Parachute and Chocolate City, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, often performing songs penned and produced by [Homer Banks]], now working with writer/guitarist, Chuck Brooks. At one point, Brown was also a short-term member of The Temprees.
Brown's brother was William Brown, who was a member of The Mad Lads group and also a studio recording engineer, especially at Stax Records. He produced several tracks for his brother on Truth, which were later released in 1981 on an album on the re-activated Stax Records, following the takeover by Fantasy Records. [1]
Discography
Albums
- Welcome to My Room (1978) U.S. R&B #48[2]
- Intimately (1979) U.S. R&B #46
- Midnight Desire (1980) U.S. R&B #50
- Check It Out (1981)
- Randy (1981)
Singles
- "I Wanna Make Love To You" (1978) U.S. R&B #22[3]
- "I'd Rather Hurt Myself (Than To Hurt You)" (1978) U.S. R&B #89
- "We Ought to Be Doin' It" (1980) U.S. R&B #16
References
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