Arthur Conley
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Born in McIntosh County, Georgia on January 4, 1946, souls singer Arthur Conley was best known for his 1967 hit single âSweet Soul Music.â Growing up in Atlanta, he fronted his own band, Arthur and the Corvettes, who released three singles in 1963: âI Believe,â âFlossie Mae,â and âPoor Girl.â The following year, he went solo and eventually issued the single âWhere He Leads Meâ / âIâm a Lonely Stranger,â which caught the attention of Otis Redding, who signed him to his label, Jotis Records. After several more singles â âWhoâs Fooling Who,â âI Canât Stop (No No No)â and âIâm Gonna Forget About Youâ â Arthur Conley hit paydirt with the 1967 single âSweet Soul Music,â a song that he had co-written with Redding. The song, which was a re-write of Sam Cookeâs âYeah Man,â became a massive hit and climbed to number 2 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the R&B / Soul Singles chart. The single was featured on the album of the same name, which was followed later that year by the album Shake, Rattle & Roll. However, Arthur Conleyâs success was fleeting and by the end of the decade, heâd only achieve minor success with the singles âWhole Lotta Womanâ (1967), âShake, Rattle & Rollâ (1967), âOb-La-Di, Ob-La-Daâ (1968), and âPeople Sure Act Funny.â Two More albums were released in the 1960s â Soul Directions (1968) and More Sweet Soul (1969) â but the writing was on the wall and Arthur Conley spent the early 1970s recording a string of mildly successful singles. Still considered a viable artist in the UK and Europe, Arthur Conley moved to England in 1975 before finally settling in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1977. He changed his professional name to Lee Roberts and achieved success for several years before dying of intestinal cancer on November 17, 2003, at the age of 57.
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- Sweet Soul Music
- I'm a Lonely Stranger
- You Really Know How to Hurt a Guy
- Love Comes and Goes
- Where You Lead Me
- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
- A Change Is Gonna Come
- Love Got Me
- You Don't Have to See Me
- I'm Gonna Forget About You
- There's a Place for Us
- Keep On Talking
- Funky Street
- Who's Foolin' Who
- I Can't Stop (No, No, No)
- Hand and Glove
- I'll Take the Blame
- Take Me (Just as I Am)
- This Love Of Mine
- Baby What You Want Me to Do
- Stuff You Gotta Watch
- Let Nothing Separate Us
- Something You Got
- One Night Is All I Need
