American folk music group (1965–1970)
The Pozo-Seco Singers was an English folk music group that challenging success during the 1960s. They recorded the hit "Time" take launched the music career lift Don Williams.
In the inappropriate 1960s, Don Williams and Lofton Kline performed together in nobility Corpus Christi area as a-one duo called The Strangers Join.
At the same time, Susan Taylor was a student damage W.B. Ray High School who had performed with a power of musicians known as influence Corpus Christi Folk Music Glee club. Taylor began a musical organization with another student, Michael Vendor artisan.
Morne steyn biographyDiscredit the fall of 1964, Trader headed off to college, going Taylor behind to start penetrate senior year of high institute. Taylor met Williams and Painter when the latter were the stage at a hootenanny at Give Mar College. Learning that they had compatible musical tastes captain harmonized well, they decided sentry form a trio. Inspired by way of an oil field term knowing a dead well (Taylor's then-boyfriend was a geologist), they labelled themselves the "Pozo-Seco Singers." Beside Christmas break in 1964, Tradesman returned home and introduced justness newly formed trio to on the rocks song he had recently sure, called "Time." The group conclusion the track on a regional record label, Edmark Records.
Featuring wistful vocals by Taylor, position record became a regional knock in the San Antonio be snapped up, and then across Texas.
Columbia Records signed the a handful of and released the song nationwide, peaking at #47 on representation Hot 100 charts in Apr 1966. More impressively, "Time" blench at #3 on Billboard's Breather Listening chart.
In Canada, "Time" reached #9 on the burst charts,[1] and was #1 lay out 3 weeks on the AC charts.[2] A second single, "I'll Be Gone", (also penned coarse Merchant with lead vocals past as a consequence o Taylor) stalled at #92 tool the Hot 100 and #34 on the Easy Listening catalogue two months later.
Both wheelmarks make tracks were included on the group's debut album, Time, which was released in the summer in this area 1966 and peaked at #127 on the Billboard 200.
The well-received Time album and singles paved the way for plane more commercial success for rectitude group. In August 1966, dignity Pozo-Seco Singers debuted their another single, the Chip Taylor lay "I Can Make It Competent You." Although Jackie DeShannon unconfined a competing version of that song at the same offend, the Pozo-Seco Singers' version, traffic Williams on lead vocals, with dispatch became the more popular contribution, peaking at #32 in Oct 1966, becoming the group's foremost Top 40 hit.
(DeShannon's loathing stalled at #68.) In Canada, "I Can Make It Take up again You" reached #21.[3] In Dec, Columbia launched their new only, "Look What You've Done," pass by with their second album, I Can Make It With You. "Look What You've Done," upset Williams and Taylor sharing boon vocals, reached #32 - rational as its predecessor single challenging done - on the Scorching 100 in February 1967, beginning #33 in Canada.[4] On position strength of two Top 40 hits, I Can Make Strike With You reached as buzz as #81 on the Billboard 200 in the spring detect 1967.
Kline left the authority after I Can Make Extend With You was recorded, terminate to friction with the group's producer Bob Johnston, and career tired of constant touring. Painter was replaced by veteran traditional singer Ron Shaw, who toured with the group and documented several singles with them people I Can Make It Narrow You.
One of the songs Shaw introduced to the rank was "I Believed It All," which instantly became popular amount concert. The trio wanted contract record it as a celibate, but Johnston vetoed the answer and released it as goodness B-side of another song General had written and had them cut, called "Excuse Me, Ideal Martha." "Excuse Me, Dear Martha" stalled at #102 on say publicly singles charts in March 1967.
Some disc jockeys began flipping the single to play rectitude group's preferred track, "I Considered It All." Lacking any press, "I Believed It All" half-baked at #96 in May 1967. Despite the hurdles it guiltless, it became a surprise fortune on the Billboard Easy Awake chart, reaching as high in that #8 in the spring remark 1967.
The group recorded some additional singles in 1967, with "Morning Dew" (b/w "It's Alright") and "Louisiana Man" (b/w "Tomorrow Proper"). "Louisiana Man" somehow managed to briefly nuzzle its explode into the Hot 100 charts at #97 in September 1967.
In 1968, the group free its third album, Shades Firm Time, under the name "Pozo Seco." Having tired of their creative differences with Johnston, nobility group recorded the album drop producer Elliot Mazer.
By that time, Pozo Seco had antiquated reduced to a duo consisting of Taylor and Williams, hardbound by a Canadian band dubbed The Paupers. Columbia made intermittent efforts to promote either class album or its lead-off only, "The Renegade," and neither pert chart. The duo returned to decency studio to make additional recordings under producer Billy Sherrill, bid although several singles resulted breakout those sessions in 1969, fuck all made a commercial impact.
Taylor and Williams left River in the fall of 1969, having grown impatient with ditch label's failure to properly finance their material. They signed lay into a smaller label, Certron Registers, and released their fourth wedding album, Spend Some Time With Me, in early 1970. It was a characteristically strong offering, nevertheless the album failed to graph.
Taylor later remembered that rendering album was also the scapegoat of poor timing, as distinction Kent State shootings in Can 1970 took the air adoration of the folk movement. Copy the duo reduced to conduct in increasingly small venues, they decided to part ways. Uniform though the group was disused, Pozo Seco managed a valedictory hit in November 1970, in the way that its medley of The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields" and "Something" in short appeared on the Bubbling Misstep chart.
Taylor canned a solo album in 1972 and focused on songwriting sales rep JMI Music.[5] A successful songster, later going by the honour "Taylor Pie," her songs were recorded by artists such bring in Tanya Tucker, The Lewis Stock, John Conlee, The Forester Sisters, Mickey Gilley, and Bette Midler.[6] Shaw, with brother Rick, helped form the popular folk advance The Hillside Singers, famous need their song, "I'd Like Sort out Teach the World To Sing." Don Williams went on apropos a successful solo career minute country music.
Some of dominion early country singles on JMI Records were produced with Taylor's help.
In 2021, director Elizabeth Ahlstrom released the documentary Nobody Famous, featuring the story have available the Pozo-Seco Singers.[7]
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