Sonny Green

1 record in the archive · 1971

About the artist

Robert "Sonny" Green, born Monroe, Louisiana in 1942, learned to sing in church, worked with Big Jay McNeely in Los Angeles, led a band out of Amarillo, Texas for 18 years, then settled in Los Angeles, opening for Tyrone Davis, Johnnie Taylor and Little Milton. He recorded for Whip (1964), Fuller, United Artists and Hill Records (owned by his manager Matt Hill); "Jody's On The Run" (Hill 777, 1971), the flip of "If You Want Me To Keep On Loving You", is confirmed by Sir Shambling's, which calls it "a real funky screamer". Still active: his debut studio album "Found! One Soul Singer" appeared…

Records

  1. Sonny Green – Jody's on the Run (1971)

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