For over 70 years, the Highway QC’s have been one of the top gospel groups in the classic “quartet” tradition. Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls, and Johnnie Taylor began their careers in the QC’s, each taking ...

'Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone' This 1970 Johnnie Taylor hit may or may not have been the genesis for a popular Army running cadence. Both talk about the danger -- or likelihood -- of losing your ...

The most beautiful flowers of Otis Redding's music blossomed from his faithful, country gospel roots. When he sang soul music, he was at worship—not at the altar of any deity but in the temple of ...

Before this, he had been in gospel outfits The Five Echoes – who he joined in 1951 or 1952 at age 17 – and, from 1957, The Highway QC’s, who Sam Cooke had passed through. In August 1960, he took on ...

Johnnie Taylor, whose career began in gospel but hit its commercial highpoint with the salacious innuendo of the 1976 hit "Disco Lady," and Otis Blackwell, whose rhythm-and-blues-based compositions ...

For over 70 years, the Highway QC’s have been one of the top gospel groups in the classic “quartet” tradition that married the older a cappella sound of jubilee singers to the hard-driving rhythm ...