Artist: Hamilton Bohannon
Genre(s):
Dance
Other
Discography:
Essential Dancefloor Artists Vol.4
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Insides Out
Year: 1975
Tracks: 7
Stop and Go
Year:
Tracks: 8
Drummer Hamilton Bohannon (innate March 7, 1942) was among the crest bandleaders, percussionists, and producers in '70s disco/dance music. Bohannon grew up in Newnan, GA, and was drumming in a high gear school band piece an elementary shoal student. After earning a music degree from Atlanta's Clark College, he was leased as a drummer by Stevie Wonder and moved to Detroit, where he was a bandleader and organizer for Motown tours until he joined Dakar/Brunswick in 1972. Bohannon perfected his rule of heavy, dull bass accents and aggressive rhythms patch recording for Dakar. He had several songs that were successful baseball club records, simply only when mild R&B hits, among them "South African Man," "Foot Stompin' Music," "Disco Stomp," and "Bohannon's Beat." He moved to Mercury in the late '70s and scored a major strike with "Let's Start the Dance" in 1978, Bohannon's only Top Ten R&B release. The birdcall featured singer Carolyn Crawford. He afterwards produced Crawford's solo acquittance, "Advent on Strong," that same year and continued working with her into the '80s. Bohannon unbroken recording for Mercury, though just acquiring light chart action in 1979 and 1980. He started Phase II Records in 1980 and recorded there until 1984. Bohannon introduced another vocalizer, Liz Lands, on a remake of the Originals' "Sister, I'm for Real," which was included on the 1980 LP One Step Ahead. He gestural with MCA in 1984 and recorded several albums. His 1989 release Here Comes Bohannon featured another clean female voice, Alltrinna Grayson.
