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Joe Simon is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of R. Dean Taylor, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Sam Cooke and Porter Wagoner. Those roots explain a lot about how Joe Simon arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Tyrone Davis, Luther Ingram, O.V. Wright, Maxine Brown and Betty Everett, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Martha and the Vandellas, Percy Sledge and Nicky Thomas, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Joe Simon, reaching back through R. Dean Taylor and forward to Martha and the Vandellas. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Joseph Simon was an American soul and R&B musician. He began as a gospel artist singing with the Golden West Singers in the Bay Area in California. A consistent presence on the US charts between 1964 and 1981, Simon charted 51 U.S. Pop and R&B chart hits between 1964 and 1981, including eight times in the US top forty, 38 times in the top 40 of the US R&B chart, with 13 chart hits in Canada. His biggest hits included three number one entries on the US Billboard R&B chart: "The Chokin' Kind" (1969), "Power of Love" (1972), and "Get Down, Get Down " (1975). In 2021, he was one of the 60 nominees for the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
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Joe Simon connections
Joe Simon grew out of R. Dean Taylor, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Sam Cooke and Porter Wagoner, shares an orbit with Tyrone Davis, Luther Ingram, O.V. Wright and Maxine Brown, went on to shape Martha and the Vandellas, Percy Sledge and Nicky Thomas. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Joe Simon
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Artists similar to Joe Simon
Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with Joe Simon.
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