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Rainbow is a popular song written by Curtis Mayfield. Recorded by Gene Chandler in 1962, the single released on Vee-Jay Records [1] spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. [2] In 1965, Gene Chandler scored another hit with this song when he recorded Rainbow '65 (Part 1). [3]
Curtis in Chicago is a 1973 live album by Curtis Mayfield and others. Mayfield is joined by The Impressions, Jerry Butler, Gene Chandler and others in a review of Mayfield's then-fifteen years as a recording artist.
Later that year, Chandler recorded the album Gene and Jerry: One on One with fellow Chicago artist Jerry Butler. He also was featured along with the Impressions, LeRoy Hutson and Curtis Mayfield on the live album Curtis in Chicago (1973). Chandler sang on Arthur Louis's album Knocking on Heaven's Door (1974), with Eric Clapton.
Gene Chandler 18 40 — "Ain't It a Shame" Major Lance 20 91 — "Nothing Can Stop Me" Gene Chandler 3 18 41 [B] "(Gonna Be) Good Times" 40 92 — "(I've Got a Feeling) You're Gonna Be Sorry" Billy Butler — 103 — "You Can't Hurt Me No More" Gene Chandler 40 92 — 1966 "(I'm Just a) Fool for You" — 88 — "He Will Break Your Heart" The ...
Gene Chandler and Major Lance, who had worked with Mayfield during the 1960s, also signed for short stays at Curtom. Many of the label's recordings were produced by Mayfield. Mayfield's first solo album, Curtis, was released in 1970, and hit the top 20, as well as being a
Chi-Sound Records is an independent record label set up in 1976 by established Chicago record producer Carl Davis. [1] He had been involved in the music industry since the early 1960s working with locally based record labels, including Vee-Jay and Okeh, a subsidiary of the major Columbia Records.
Gene Chandler, Simtec & Wylie, The Free Movement: December 25, 1971 14 14 B.B. King, O.C. Smith, Patrice Holloway: January 1, 1972 15 15 Dennis Coffey, The Detroit Emeralds, Jesse James January 8, 1972 16 16 Little Richard, The Undisputed Truth, Nolan F. Porter: January 15, 1972 17 17 Curtis Mayfield, The Honey Cone, The Persuaders: January 22 ...
Around this time, she met her future producer, manager, and husband Floyd Smith, and recorded "Rainbow ’71" in 1971, [2] a Curtis Mayfield song that Gene Chandler had recorded in 1963. It was initially released on the Apache label, but was picked up for national distribution by Galaxy Records.