MARV JOHNSON HAPPY DAYS BABY BABY DEMO DJ SAMPLER LONDON AMERICAN LABLE
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Description
Title
‘Happy Days’
B side
‘Baby Baby’
Artist
Marv Johnson
Genre
Record Co / Number
London HLT 9265
Year
1961
Sleeve
Original standard die cut company sleeve, condition as seen.
Record Grading A side
Excellent Minus (EX-) some very light surface marks which do not affect playback (please note sound engineers penned notes on lable)
Record Grading B side
Excellent Minus (EX-) some very light surface marks which do not affect playback (please note sound engineers penned notes on lable)
Biography
Marv Earl Johnson born October 15th 1938 was an American R&B and Soul Singer most notable for performing on the first record to be issued from what became Motown. Born in Detroit in 1938 Johnson began his career singing with a doo-wop group called the Serenaders in the mid 1950s. He was discovered by Berry Gordy while he performed at a carnival. Gordy had already decided to form his first record lable Tamla, and Johnson's recording of their song "Come to Me" became the label's first single in May 1959.
Between 1959 and 1961, Johnson would issue nine Billboard Hot 100 singles including two Top 10’s. Johnson enjoyed many hits in Australia where he racked up a total of eight Top 40 hits, including three chart-toppers. "Come To Me" "You Got What It Takes" and "I Love The Way You Love". In the UK he had two Top Ten hits "You Got What It Takes", reached No.7 in 1960, and "I'll Pick a Rose for My Rose" got to No.10 in 1969. Three other recordings made the UK chart: "I Love The Way You Love", "Ain't Gonna Be That Way" and "I Miss You Baby".
Johnson continued singing into the 1990s, releasing a solo album on the London based Motorcity Records label. Johnson died of a stroke on 16 May 1993, in Columbia South Carolina at the age of 54.
