Brothers Johnson

The Brothers Johnson are an American group of music composed of George Johnson ( Lightnin' Licks ) and Louis Johnson ( Thunder Thumbs ).

Biography

The two Johnson brothers began their musical career with the college with their elder Tommy and their cousin Alex Weir. They train together the group Johnson Three Plus One. This one obtains very high notes in the world of the Drunk person of Los Angeles to the beginning of the year 1970. They accompany regularly by the artists like the Supreme ones, David Ruffin, Bill Whiters and Bobby Womack, on scene or in studio.

George and Louis decide to continue in duet and write songs which they provide in particular to Billy Preston for his albums Music Is My Life in 1972 and The Kids & Me in 1974. The following year Quincy Jones discovers the two brothers by chance one day when they audition in studio for Stevie Wonder. It immediately engages them for a round in Japan and it calls upon them for its album Mellow Madness to which they bring several texts as “Just has little taste off me” and especially 'Is it coils that we' Re missin? that they interpret with him.

The success of this collaboration marks a turning for Brothers Johnson which leaves in round to Japan with Quincy Jones before entering to A&M on its recommendation to engrave under its direction prophetic Look Out For N°1 (Attention with the number one). By being essential at the head better sales during the summer 1976, this album definitively makes them know in their giving two best-sellers, “I' L Be good to you” and “Get the funk out my face”.

In front of the results of the sales of this first album which exceeds the bar of the million specimens, A&M proposes to the two brothers to renew their collaboration with Quincy Jones since 1977. We are then into full in the era with the Disco music-Funk and the boxes at rates/rhythms as well as the synthesized guitars of the brothers create sensation. Right one Time becomes him also platinum album in less than one quarter, while the title “Strawberry letter 23” (a song borrowed from the son of Johnny Otis, Shuggie), with its solo of guitar composed by Lee Ritenour, replaces the name of the Brothers Johnson at the top of the black charts.

The scenario reproduces almost with identical with Blam! , seven weeks at the head of best the sales of Drunk album in 1978, then again two years later with Light Up the Night of which the title “Stomp! ”, omnipresent on the tracks of dance in 1980, gives to George and Louis their third and last Number one.

With the years 1980, maturity yields the place to a certain wear, the more so as the brothers chose to do without from now on from Quincy Jones; if Winners in 1981 is carrying a solid hit with “The real thing”, the sales of the album are much lower than than Johnson knew until there.

Blast! (The latest and the Greatest) two years later, with a face of last successes and a face of innovations, and Out off Control in 1984 announce the deceleration of their common adventures.

Since the beginning of the decade, Louis is one of the bass players of studio most required of the trade (one can in particular hear it on the Thriller album of Michael Jackson) and George works regularly with Steve Arrington, which them empèche not to find itself punctually for projects often implying their producer fetish, Quincy Jones. In 1989, for his Back album one the Block, Jones their paid a nice homage while asking Ray Charles and Chaka Khan to take again “I' L Be good to you”, which found on this occasion the first place of the Black hit-parades.

In 2007, the group electro French Justice (group) sample " You make me wanna wiggle" extract of the album Light up the night, on its piece New Jack.

Discography

Look out for number one (1976)
Right one time (1977)
Blam!! (1978)
Light up the night (1980)
Winners (1981)

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