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Arthur Conley January.2.1946 - November.17.2003

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Arthur Conley

Arthur Lee Conley
was an American soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit "Sweet Soul Music". Conley was born in McIntosh County, Georgia, U.S., and grew up in Atlanta. He first recorded in 1959 as the lead singer of Arthur & the Corvets. With this group, he released three singles in 1963 and 1964 ("Poor Girl", "I Believe", and "Flossie Mae") on the Atlanta based record label, National Recording Company.

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Source: Billboard.com

Conley was just 12 years old when he joined the Evening Smiles, a gospel group that appeared regularly on local radio station WAOK. By 1963 he was leading his own R&B outfit, Arthur & the Corvets, which over the next two years issued three singles -- "Poor Girl," "I Believe," and "Flossie Mae" -- for the Atlanta label National Recording Company. Despite Conley's graceful yet powerful vocals (which owed an immense debt to his idol, Sam Cooke), the NRC singles earned little attention, and he dissolved the group to mount a solo career, releasing "I'm a Lonely Stranger" on the Ru-Jac label in late 1964. Label owner Rufus Mitchell then passed a copy of the single to soul shouter Redding, who was so impressed he invited Conley to re-record the song at Memphis' Stax Studios.

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Spectropop remembers Arthur Conley

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He was born Arthur Lee Conley in 1946 in McIntosh, Georgia and raised in Atlanta. He first recorded as Arthur & the Corvets. In 1958 he joined the group the Evening Smiles, an otherwise all-female gospel group that regularly performed on Atlanta's WAOK radio. The group released three singles, 'Poor Girl', 'I Believe' and 'Flossie Mae'. In 1964, Arthur joined musical forces with his father in Baltimore and recorded 'I'm A Lonely Stranger'. During 1965 promoter Rufus Mitchell passed a copy of the single to Otis Redding after a concert at the Baltimore Theatre. Impressed, Otis asked Arthur to go to Memphis to re-record the song at Stax Studios. Jim Stewart produced the session with arranging assistance from Booker T.

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Arthur Conley: "Sweet Soul Music"

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By 1965, soul shouter Otis Redding’s career was at a crossroads. Rumored to be unhappy with Stax Records, Redding established Jotis Records with managers Alan and Phil Walden and producer Joe Galkin (the “J” in Jotis). With Jotis, Redding hoped to break and produce new talent. That year, Redding discovered Arthur Conley, a singer who sounded remarkably like Otis. Redding became Conley’s mentor; the second release on Jotis was Conley’s “I’m a Lonely Stranger,” which Otis produced.

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