Rip Loleatta Holloway

Encore une diva qui nous quitte

Loleatta Holloway

Loleatta Holloway
by RAY FITZGERALD on MARCH 22, 2011

Soul and Disco singer Loleatta Holloway died Monday evening following a brief illness. She was 64 years old.

Holloway got her start as a gospel singer, recording with Albertina Walker and the Caravans. In the early 1970s, she signed a recording contract with the Aware Records. Holloway recorded two albums for the label, both of them produced by Floyd Smith—Loleatta (1973) and Cry to Me (1975). Holloway later married Smith. Her first single from the second album, the ballad Cry to Me (video below) rose to No. 10 Billboard R&B and No. 68 on the Hot 100, but before the label could really establish Holloway, it went out of business.

Top Philadelphia arranger and producer Norman Harris quickly signed her in 1976 for his new label, Gold Mind. The first release from the album Loleatta was another Sam Dees ballad, Worn-Out Broken Heart, which reached No. 25 R&B, but the B-side, Dreaming, climbed to No. 72 on the pop chart and launched her as a disco act.

Eighteen songs of hers charted on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, including four No. 1s. However, it was a ballad that proved to be another big R&B hit for her. Only You was written and produced by Bunny Sigler, who also sang with Holloway on the track, and it reached NO. 11 in 1978.

Oh punaise décidement

quelle hécatombe....

R.I.P. Loleatta... Elle avait bien été pillée par Blackbox (Ride On Time) mais elle avait gagné son procès et récupéré un paquet de thunes

superbe Photo Wonder B

R.I.P. Loleatta.

en ce moment çà n'arrete pas
r.i.p Loleatta

djpats a écrit:superbe Photo Wonder B

elle est extraite d'un de mes vieux numéros de BILLBOARD Magazine...

Rip Loleatta Holloway
une chanteuse que j'aimais bcp

La chanteuse Loleatta Holloway, connue pour son tube «Love Sensation» dans les années 80, est morte à 64 ans, rapporte son manager.

La chanteuse américaine a enregistré six albums studio entre 1973 et 1980 - dont «Love Sensation», samplé en 1989 par le groupe Black Box dans leur tube Ride On Time, puis par Mark Wahlberg.