Eargasm

Eargasm
Studio album by
Johnnie Taylor
ReleasedMarch 1976
StudioUnited Sound Systems, Detroit; Muscle Shoals Sound Studios; Sundance Studios, Dallas
GenreR&B, soul
Length34:45
LabelColumbia[1]
ProducerDon Davis
Johnnie Taylor chronology
Super Taylor
(1974) 		Eargasm
(1976) 		Rated Extraordinaire
(1977)

Eargasm is an album by the American R&B singer Johnnie Taylor, released in March 1976 on Columbia Records.[2][3] The album contains "Disco Lady", which was a No. 1 pop hit for four weeks, and achieved the first platinum certification for a single, with two million copies sold.[4] Eargasm was Taylor's first album for Columbia Records, after many years spent recording for Stax.[5]

The album peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200; it spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Soul Albums chart,[6][7] and peaked at No. 41 in Canada.[8] Taylor's most commercially successful album, Eargasm achieved gold status in 1980 and platinum status in 2001.[9][10][11] The album's second single, "Somebody's Gettin' It", was also a hit.[12]

The album helped Taylor earn the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's award for the 1976 "Entertainer of the Year".[13]

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  2. ^ "Johnnie Taylor Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  3. ^ Aletti, Vince (2009). The Disco Files 1973-78: New York's Underground, Week by Week. DJhistory.com. p. 171.
  4. ^ "Johnnie Taylor; Singer Had Hit With 'Disco Lady'". Los Angeles Times. June 2, 2000.
  5. ^ "Johnnie Taylor, 62; Soul Singer Had Hit With 'Disco Lady'". The New York Times. June 18, 2000 – via NYTimes.com.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference BB200 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Mayfield, Geoff (Jun 17, 2000). "Remembered". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 25. p. 108.
  8. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums – June 5, 1976" (PDF).
  9. ^ Wells, Chris (15 June 2000). "Obituary: Johnnie Taylor". The Guardian. p. 1.26.
  10. ^ "Gold Record Albums". Ebony. 35 (4): 92. Feb 1980.
  11. ^ Pesselnick, Jill (Dec 22, 2001). "Platinum Albums". Billboard. Vol. 113, no. 51. p. 52.
  12. ^ Spencer, Leigh (5 June 2000). "Johnnie Taylor". The Independent. Obituaries. p. 6.
  13. ^ "SCLC: Presidential Candidates Don't Know About Poor". Jet. 50 (24): 21. Sep 2, 1976.