Linda Jones

Linda Jones (December 14, 1944 - March 14, 1972) was an American soul singer. Jones was born in Newark, New Jersey. She started singing in her family's gospel group the Jones Singers at the age of six. Her first recording was "Lonely Teardrops" under the name Linda Lane, on Cub Records in 1963, and she had unsuccessful singles on Atco Records in 1964 and Blue Cat Records the following year. She signed with Warner Bros. Records subsidiary Loma Records in 1967 and released the biggest of several hits, "Hypnotized". Soon after her career took off, however, she was diagnosed with diabetes and died at home in Harlem in 1972 while resting between matinee and evening shows at the Apollo Theater. (Read more at Wikipedia)

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For a time in the late 1960s soul music went out of fashion with some British pop listeners, due to the increasingly commercial path taken by some Tamla Motown artists and the association of the music in the UK with discos frequented by gangs of violent young Mods (such as those who disrupted Peel's gig at London's Tiles club in 1967). However, by the early 1970s soul had experienced a renewal and Peel was beginning to feature soul records on his programmes, among them future chart hits, album tracks and rarities. His selections included tracks by a number of noted female singers, including Betty Wright ("Clean Up Woman"), Ann Peebles ("I Can't Stop The Rain"), Millie Jackson ("Lovin' Arms") - and Linda Jones. Jones had no UK hit singles, unlike the other singers mentioned, but her extraordinary gospel-influenced singing and her early death made her a cult figure among soul fans, and her reputation has endured into the twenty-first century.

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