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SystematicOpis:Product DescriptionBilly Griffin born (1950) and raised in West Baltimore, Maryland was a guitarist, as well as a singer and sang with his brother Donald in a local Baltimore group called The Last Dynasty. With the group Griffin won a talent program on NBC Television. First prize was a record deal with RCA, but he never took it. The next week, Griffin was in Detroit, auditioning for Berry Gordy and the Motown executives. The audition was to replace Smokey Robinson of the Miracles, and Griffin got the job. During The Miracles' nationwide 1972 Farewell Tour with Smokey Robinson, Griffin was introduced by Robinson as his replacement in The Miracles as lead singer. After a couple of singles the Miracles released "Do It Baby" in 1974, which peaked at #4 on the Billboard R&B charts and became the group's first big hit with Griffin. Like Robinson before him, Griffin co-wrote many of the Miracles' songs, in addition to singing lead vocal. Griffin and original Miracles member Pete Moore wrote all of the Miracles' 1975 platinum selling album, "City of Angels". During his tenure with the group, they recorded three hits: "Do It Baby" in 1974, and the Miracles' most successful single, the number-one hit "Love Machine", in 1975 which sold 4.5 million records worldwide. Griffin also sung lead on "Don't Cha Love It", a Top 10 R&B single. The Miracles left Motown in 1976, signing with Columbia Records. After two albums for Columbia, Griffin and Moore decided to retire from performing and focus on songwriting. In 1982, Griffin released his first solo album, "Be With Me", with the hit single "Hold Me Tighter in the Rain" which was a smash in Europe and one of the best dance singles that year. He followed in 1983 with the album "Respect", which contained his first solo U.

S. hit, "Serious". Through both albums, Griffin's work with producer John Barnes - who later worked with Michael Jackson - provided a bridge from the then-dying disco era to the 80 s dance sound that Jackson popularized in Thriller and Bad. Griffin then teamed with Leon Ware to record the "Systematic" in 1985. The title song Systematic (written by James Ingram and Leon ware) is one of the best but lesser known r&b tracks of the 80's with one of the tightest bass lines ever. It is hard to find other tracks produced by Leon Ware that were as good as this. After Systematic Billy Griffin moved to Atlantic to record the single "Believe It Or Not," but never released an album there. In 1989, Griffin joined UK record producer Ian Levine's Motown-reunion project Motorcity Records, and was the first to release a single on the label, "First in Line". Griffin also fronted a Miracles reunion with a new recording of "Love Machine". Griffin became a writer and backing vocals arranger for several of the other artists, and recorded a large number of tracks himself, but his album "Technicolour" was never released and the label collapsed in 1992. Most of his Motorcity recordings were released on the 1996 compilation "Best Of Billy Griffin". Griffin has written songs and sung backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, The O'Jays, Ronald Isley, Freda Payne, Edwin Starr, Evelyn Champagne King, Herb Alpert, Martine McCutcheon, The Emotions and many others. In 2006, Griffin released his latest solo album, "Like Water".

About the ArtistBilly Griffin born (1950) and raised in West Baltimore, Maryland was a guitarist, as well as a singer and sang with his brother Donald in a local Baltimore group called The Last Dynasty. With the group Griffin won a talent program on NBC Television. First prize was a record deal with RCA, but he never took it. The next week, Griffin was in Detroit, auditioning for Berry Gordy and the Motown executives. The audition was to replace Smokey Robinson of the Miracles, and Griffin got the job. During The Miracles' nationwide 1972 Farewell Tour with Smokey Robinson, Griffin was introduced by Robinson as his replacement in The Miracles as lead singer. After a couple of singles the MAutor:Billy GriffinNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2016-04-15Waga: 0.18 gramWysokość: 0.6 cmSzerokość: 5 cmDługość: 5.6 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.