The Glory
Bound Travellers
(Among
It's One Time Members Ted Taylor,)
The Mighty Clouds Of Joy
(among it's one time members Ted Taylor,
......................)
The Santa Monica Soul Seekers
(among it's one time members Lou Rawls, Ted Taylor, Aaron
Collins, Willie Davis, Will "Dub" Jones,
Glendon
Kingsby, Lloyd
McCraw,
.......................................)
The Jacks
(members Aaron Collins (lead and second tenor), Will "Dub"
Jones (lead and bass), Willie Davis (first tenor), Lloyd
McCraw (baritone and group
manager) and Ted Taylor (first tenor)
The Cadets
(Members Aaron Collins (Lead And Second Tenor), Will "Dub" Jones
(Lead And Bass), Willie Davis (First Tenor), Lloyd
Mccraw (Baritone And Group Manager)
And Ted Taylor (First Tenor) When Group Signed To Modern Records
In 1955 Joe Bihari Changed Their
Name Because Upon Hearing The Group's Potential And Adaptability
He Conceived The Idea Of Creating Two Groups Out Of One, Giving
The Jacks A New Additional Name The Cadets.
Modern 956 - I
Cried / Don't Be Angry* - 1955 *Cover Of 1955 Record By Nappy
Brown On Savoy 1155.
The Jacks
(Members Aaron Collins (Lead And
Second Tenor), Will "Dub" Jones (Lead And Bass), Willie Davis
(First Tenor), Lloyd Mccraw
(Baritone And Group Manager) And Ted Taylor (First Tenor)
RPM 428 -
Smack Dab In The Middle / Why Don't
You Write Me - 1955
RPM 428 - My Darling / Why Don't You Write Me – 1955
Donna
Hightower
RPM 432 - Love
Me Again / Dog Gone It - 1955 (Backed By The
Jacks)
The Jacks
RPM 433 - I'm
Confessin' / Since My Baby's Been
Gone – 1955
The Cadets
Modern 960 - Rollin' Stone* / Fine
Lookin' Baby - 1955 *cover of 1955 record by
The Marigolds on
Excello 2057.
Young Jesse
Modern 961 -
Mary Lou / Don't Think I Will - 1955 (Backed By
The Cadets)
The Cadets
Modern 963 - I
Cried / Fine Lookin' Baby – 1955
Donna
Hightower
RPM 439 -
Bob-O-Link / Since You - 1955 (Backed By The
Jacks)
Dolly Cooper
Modern 965 -
Ay La Ba / My Man - 1955 (Backed By
The Cadets)
The Jacks
RPM 444 - This
Empty Heart / My Clumsy Heart – 1955
The Cadets
Modern 969 -
So Will I / Annie Met Henry - 1955
Modern 971 - Do You Wanna Rock* / If
It Is Wrong - 1956 *a reworked version of
The Drifters song from 1955 "What'chs
Gonna Do" on Atlantic 1055
The Jacks
RPM 454 - So
Wrong / How Soon – 1956
The Cadets
Modern 985 - Church Bells May Ring* / Heartbreak Hotel -
1956 *cover of 1956 record by
The Willows on Melba 102. **cover of 1956 record by
Elvis Presley on RCA 6420. (after
this recording Prentice Moreland replaced Ted Taylor)
Ted Taylor
(born Theodore Austin Taylor on 16-February-1937 at
Okmulgee, near Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Died 22-October-1987 in Louisiana, cause: automobile
accident)
Ebb 113 - Everywhere I Go / Days Are Dark - 1957
Bob Reed & His
Band, Vocal By "Ivory Lucky"
(Ted Taylor)
Melatone
1003 - I'm Leaving You / I'm Gonna
Change My Way Of Living - 1957
Melatone 1004 - Malibu / Barrel
House - 1957
Melatone 1021 - I'm Leaving You /
I'm Going To Change My Way Of Living – 1957
Ted Taylor
Ebb 132 - If I
Don't See You Again / Keep Walking On - 1958
Ebb 151 - Wrapped Up In A Dream / Very Truly Yours - 1958
Duke 304 - Be Ever Wonderful / Since You're Home - 1959
Duke 308 - Count The Starts / Hold Me Tight - 1959
Top Rank International 2010 - Fallin'
In Love / ? - 1959
Top Rank International 2011 - I'm Saving My Love /
Chanta-Lula - 1959
Top Rank International 2048 - Has My Love Grown Cold / I Need
You So - 1960
Top Rank International 2076 - Darling Take Me Back / Look Out -
1960
Top Rank International 3001 - Someday
(I Know, I
Know) / You Know I Do - 1961
Austin Taylor
Laurie 3067 - A Heart That's True / Push Push - 1961
Ted Taylor
Laurie 3076 - You've Been Crying / Little Boy How Old Are You –
1961
Austin Taylor
Laurie 3082 - I Don't Want To Love You / Lovin' Hands - 1961
Laurie 3095 - I Love Being Loved By You / Together Forever -
1961
Ted Taylor
Warwick 628 - Someday / You Know I Do - 1961
Bob Reed And His Band (Members Ted Taylor .....)
Melatone 1003 - I'm Leaving You / I'm Going To Change My Way Of
Living - 1961
Melatone 1004 - Malibu / Barrel House - 1961
Ted Taylor
Gold Eagle 1805 - My Darling / She's A Winner - 1961
Gold Eagle 1810 - Tat Happy Day / I Don't Care - 1961
Gold Eagle 1812 - No Matter What You Do / Never In My Life –
1961
Ted Taylor's
Combo Featuring Wiley Terry
Gold Eagle
1818 - Bandstand Drag / Rockin'
Horse - 1961 (Instrumentals)
Ted Taylor
Soncraft
400 - Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere / I Lost The Best Things I
Ever Had - 1961
Dade 5000 - Darling If You Must Leave / I Lost The Best Things I
Ever Had - 1962
Apt 25063 - Little Things Mean A Lot / My Days And Nights Are So
Blue - 1962
United Artists
452 - Pretending Love / Cant Take No More - 1962
Okeh 7154 - Pretending Love
/ Don't Lie - 1962
Okeh 7159 - You Must Have Been Meant
For Me / Time Has A Way - 1962
Okeh
7165 - Can't Take No More / I'll Release You* - 1962 *an "answer
record" to the 1962 release by
Esther Phillips "Little Esther" on
Lenox 5555.
Okeh 7171 - Be Ever Wonderful* /
That's Life I Guess - 1962 *also
recorded in 1968 by Joe Hinton on
Back Beat 589.
Okeh 7176 - You Give Me Nothing To
Go On / Him Instead Of Me - 1963
Okeh 7179 - I'll Make It Up To You /
It Ain't Like That No More - 1963
Okeh 7190 - So Hard / Need You Home
- 1964
Okeh
7198 - Somebody's Always Trying / Top
Of The World - 1964 (some promo copies were issued in purple
vinyl)
Okeh 7206 - If It Wasn't For You /
Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go) - 1964
Okeh
7214 - So Long, Bye Bye Baby / I
Love You Yes I Do* - 1965 *also recorded in 1961 by
James Brown on King 5547
Okeh 7222 - I'm So Satisfied / (Love
Is Like A) Ramblin' Rose - 1965
Ted Taylor / The Artistics
Okeh
Jzsp 111745 /
Jzsp 111809 - Stay Away From My Baby / This Heart Of
Mine* - 1965
(demo copies issued in purple vinyl ) *flip by The
Artistics.
Ted Taylor
Okeh 7231 - Stay
Away From My Baby / Walking Out Of You Life – 1965
Okeh 7240 - Daddy's Baby / Mercy
Have Pity – 1966
Okeh 7252 - Big Wheel / No One But
You – 1966
Epic 2241 - Be So Wonderful / (Love Is Like A)
Ramblin' Rose - ? (Re-Issue)
Epic 2249 - Stay Away From My Baby / Daddy's Baby - ? (Re-Issue)
Atco 6388 - Dancing Annie / Try Me
Again – 1965
Jewel 135 - Strange Things Keep Happening / Little Boy (How Old
Are You?) – 1965
Atco 6408 - River's Invitation /
Long Distance Call – 1966
Atco 6434 - Thank You For
Helpng Me See The Light / Help The
Bear – 1966
Jewel 748 - Very Truly Yours / Days Are Dark – 1966
Jewel 759 - You've Been Crying / Close Your Eyes – 1966
Jewel 774 - Everywhere I Go / Keep Walking On – 1966
Atco 6481 - Feed The Flame* / Baby
Come Back To Me - 1967 *Recorded 10-April-1967.
Ronn 15 - Miss You So / I'm
Gonna Get Tough – 1968
Ronn 21 - I Need Your Love So Bad /
Ollie-Mae – 1968
Ronn 25 - Without A Woman / Honey
Lou – 1968
Ronn 29 - You Got To Feel It /
Strangest Feeling – 1969
Ronn 33 - Long Ago / I'm
Gonna Send You Back To Oklahoma –
1969
Ronn 34 - It's Too Late / The Road
Of Love – 1969
Ronn 37 - I'm Lonely Tonight / If I
Thought You Needed Me – 1969
Ronn 40 - I Feel A Chill / Loving
Physician – 1970
Ronn
44 - Something Strange Is
Goin'
On In My House / Funky Thing - 1970
Ronn 46 - It's A Funky Situation /
I'm So Glad You're Home – 1970
Ronn 49 - Can't Take No More /
Singing Man – 1971
Ronn 52 - How's Your Love Life Baby
/ This Is A Troubled World – 1971
Ronn 57 - How Do You Walk Away From
Fear / Only The Lonely Knows – 1972
Ronn 63 - I'm Just A Crumb In Your
Bread Box Of Love / Houston Town – 1972
Ronn 65 - I Want To Be Part Of You
Girl / Going In The Hole – 1972
Ronn 72 - Make Up For Lost Time /
What A Fool – 1973
Ronn 74 - Break Of Day / Fair
Weather Woman – 1973
Little Johnny Taylor &
Ted Taylor
Ronn 75 - Cry It Out
Baby / Walking The Floor – 1973
Ted Taylor
Ronn 77 - She Loves
To Do It As Well As You / Ready For The Heartbreak – 1974
Ronn 82 - I've Got To Find Somebody
New / For All The Days In My Life – 1974
Ronn
- Friendship Only Goes So Far - ? (although
unissued on vinyl this was released
in the U. K. on a 2001 Westside Cd
"Soul Jewels Volume 2 - I Wake Up Crying" WESA 913)
Ronn
- Let's Call The Whole Thing Off - ?
(although unissued on vinyl this was
released in the U. K. on a 2001 Westside Cd
"Soul Jewels Volume 2 - I Wake Up Crying" WESA 913)
Ronn
- Fair Warning
- unissued as a 45 but released in
the U. K. on a 2003 Kent
Cd "Masterpieces
Of Modern
Soul" CDKEND 222.
Alarm 110 - Everybody's Stealing / Caught Up In A Good Woman's
Love 1975
Alarm 2112 - Somebody's Getting It / Steal Away 1975
Little Johnny Taylor &
Ted Taylor
Ronn
89 - Pretending Love / Funky Ghetto 1976
Ted Taylor
Ronn
106 - Houston Town /
Cummin's Prison - 1976
Ronn
112 - Be Ever Wonderful / I Love You Just The Same - 1976
Ronn
114 - Little Red Rooster / Stay Away From My Baby - 1976
Ronn
116 - Steal Away / My Key
Jumped
Back In My Hand - 1976
Alarm 110 -
Everybody's Stealin' / Caught Up -
1976
Alarm 112 - Somebody's Getting It / Steal Away - 1976
Alarm 2114 - Gonna
Hate Myself / Stick By Me 1976
Alarm 2117 - Ghetto Disco / You Can Make It If You Try 1977
T.
K. 31 - Ghetto Disco / ? - 1977
(12" Release)
Alarm 2119 - Two Minute Warning / Paying For My Love Mistakes
1977
Alarm 2123 - You Make Loving You So Easy / Talk To Me - ?
The
Taylors featuring
Ted Taylor
Alarm 2124 - Paying
For My Love Mistakes /
Spanish Harlem - ?
Alarm
2125
- Spanish Harlem / ?
Ted Taylor
MCA 1985 -
Keepin'
My Head Above Water (6:58) /
Keepin'
My Head Above Water (3:17) - 1978
(12" promo issue)
MCA 40937 - Keepin'
My Head Above Water / I Can't Fake It Anymore 1978
MCA 40977 - Chase The World Away / Double My Money Bag
Solpugits 101 - I Let You Hurt Me
Too Long / Pleading For Love* - ? *also recorded in 1955 by
Larry Birdsong with Louis Brooks & His Hi-Toppers on
Excello 2076 and in 1959 by
Roscoe Shelton on Excello
2167.
Bob Reed & His Band,
Vocal by "Ivory Lucky" (Ted Taylor)
Watts City 1003 - I'm Leaving You / I'm Going To Change My Way
Of Living - 1983 (Re-issue of Melatone
1003 disc)
Ted Taylor
Solpugits 102 -
You're Tippin' She's
Rippin' / Little Red Rooster - 1987
Solpugits 2313 -
Children Of The Light / Loving You Till The Break Of Day - 1987
Additions by
Jean-Marc Vos and Steve Howard