TAMIKO Jones "Tamiko" 1968 LP on December Records "Someone To Light Up My Life"
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TAMIKO (Jones) - "Tamiko". Produced by Jimmy Wisner (and Pete Dino)/
1968 Original pressing LP on December Records. Labels are Near Mint. Record is Near Mint on Side 1; Side 2 has one surface scratch, otherwise would be Near Mint Minus). Cover has a cutout notch at top left (with a concommittant crease) and also a cut corner at bottom right; if not for those, would be Near Mint.
Tracklist
Someone To Light Up My Life (Se Todas Fossem A Voce) 2:49 You Only Live Twice 2:47 The Folks Who Live On The Hill 2:59 Only Yesterday 2:41 Meditation 3:44 Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2:59 Where Do I Go From Here 2:42 Don't Let Me Lose This Dream 2:34 How Can I Leave You 2:08 Live For Life (Vivre Pour Vivre) 2:47 That's Life 3:02Tamiko Jones (born Barbara Tamiko Ferguson, 1945) is an American singer. Her most successful record was "Touch Me Baby (Reaching Out For Your Love)" in 1975.
She was born in Kyle, West Virginia, and has part Japanese, part British, and partCherokee ancestry.[1] She was raised in Detroit where she first started singing and made her professional debut in a club in 1961.[1][2] She began her career performing pop songs in a jazz style.[1] Her first record release, credited simply as Timiko, was "Is It A Sin?", issued by Checker Records in 1963.[3] She then moved to the Atco label, recording "Rhapsody" as Tamiko in 1964.
By 1966 she had moved to the Golden World label, recording "I'm Spellbound", and then moved to Atlantic Records where she released several singles during 1967, including "Boy You're Growing On Me". That year, she also recorded the album A Mann and a Woman with jazz flutist Herbie Mann.[3][4] She also appeared as an extra in several movies in the 1960s.[1] In 1968, after being hospitalised withpolio, she met singer Solomon Burke, and they recorded several duets on his album I'll Be Anything for You. Jones became Burke's fiancée and manager for a time, and co-produced his single "Proud Mary". She also recorded the album I'll Be Anything For You, and a single "Goodnight My Love", for Creed Taylor's CTI label, followed by the album Tamiko for the December label. In 1969 her album In Muscle Shoals was issued on the Metromedia label.[3]
Her first chart hit, and most successful record, was "Touch Me Baby (Reaching Out For Your Love)", written by Johnny Bristol[3] and issued by Arista Records, which reached no. 12 on the Billboard R&B chart and no. 60 on the US pop chart in 1975. Its follow-up, "Just You and Me", reached no. 78 on the R&B chart,[2] and she also released an album, Love Trip. In 1976, the single "Let It Flow" (no. 76 R&B) was released on the Contempo label, owned by John Abbey, the founder and editor of Blues & Soul magazine.[3] She and Abbey married in Atlanta, Georgia in 1977.[5]
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