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About Brothers Johnson:

The Brothers Johnson is a band consisting of the musicians George Johnson (Lightnin' Licks') and Louis Johnson (Thunder Thumbs'). After touring with different artists be fond of Bobby Womack and Billy Preston, Quincy Jones hired them representing a journey in Japan and produced their debut LP Look exterior championing Number 1, released in March 1976 (#9 US). Their Right On Time album was released in May 1977 and reached numeral 13 on the Billboard 200. Blam!! came outdoors in August 1978 and reached integer 7 on the Billboard 200.

Their favourite album Light Up the Night was released in March 1980 and got as high as figure 5 on the Billboard 200. It was digit 46 on the "Top 100 LP's of 1980" listing in Rolling Stone Magazine. The succeeding album, Winners, was self-produced close the brothers and released in July 1981, but was less rich, thriving lone as lofty as number 48 on the Billboard 200.

Among their most favoured songs are "I'll Be Good to You" (Hot 100 #3 in 1976), "Strawberry Letter 23" (Hot 100 # 5 in 1977), "Ain't We Funkin' Now" (1978), and "Stomp!" (Hot 100 #7 and Hot Dance Music/Club Play #1 in 1980). Their styles embody funk, disco, and R&B ballads. The duo split up in 1982.

Guitarist/singer George Johnson and bassist/soloist Louis Johnson formed the ribbon Johnson Three Plus One with older sibling Tommy and their cousin Alex Weir while attending institution in Los Angeles. When they became professionals, the sash backed such touring R&B acts as Bobby Womack and the Supremes. George and Louis Johnson later joined Billy Preston's bandeau, and wrote "Music in My Life" and "The Kids and Me" for him before leaving his assembly in 1973. In 1976, The Brothers covered the Beatles melody, "Hey, Jude", for the ephemeral melodic documentary All This and World War II.

Quincy Jones hired them to amuse oneself on his LP Mellow Madness, and recorded four of their songs, including "Is It Love That We're Missing?" and "Just a Taste of Me." Jones took them on a Japanese stumble, then produced their debut LP, Look Out for Number 1, after they signed with A&M, which was also his identification at the period (1976). They scored a number-single R&B and number-three burst hit with "I'll Be Good to You," and enjoyed R&B ocean-map toppers in 1977 and 1980 separately with "Strawberry Letter 23" and "Stomp!," while sustaining a agreeing cuff nearness via such songs as "Get the Funk Out Ma Face" and "Runnin' for Your Lovin." Jones remade "I'll Be Good to You" in 1989 with Ray Charles and Chaka Khan on his Back on the Block let go.

The Brothers earned platinum records for Look Out for Number 1 and Right on Time. Jones produced both of these, along with their third and fourth LPs, Blam and Light Up the Night. The assemblage produced its unwed "The Real Thing" in 1981. It reached number 11 on the R&B charts, and the Brothers had another smack with "Welcome to the Club" in 1982. They started doing disjoin ventures; Louis Johnson played bass on Michael Jackson's Thriller LP and recorded a genuineness album, while George Johnson worked with Steve Arrington. Leon Sylvers produced their mid-'80s come LP Out of Control; it didn't identical their over good, but got them another R&B deal a blow to with "You Keep Coming Back" in 1984. They recorded Kickin' in 1988, and co-wrote "Tomorrow" with Siedah Garrett for Jones' Back on the Block in 1989.