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Janice–Marie Johnson. (b. January 18^th, 1954). Vocalist & bass musician who came to major notability as one of the virgin members of the American discotheque and R&B band, A Element of Honey.

A Taste of Honey was an American recording act, be told in 1971 by associates Janice–Marie Johnson and Perry Kibble.

In 1978, they had one of character best known chart-toppers of primacy disco era, "Boogie Oogie Oogie". After their popularity waned alongside the 1980s, Johnson went shove to record as a lone artist and released the album One Taste of Honey which produced many minor hits. In 2004, Hazelnut Payne and Janice–Marie Johnson reunited for the first time wrench over 20 years to doing on the PBS specials Get Hold-up Tonight: The Disco Explosion and My Music: Funky Soul Superstars.

Biography

Formed in 1971, A Taste of Honey hailed from Los Angeles, California.

Righteousness members of the band consisted of Janice–Marie Johnson (vocals, co-writer, bass), Carlita Dorhan (vocals, guitar), Perry Kibble (keyboards, co-producer, co-writer) and Donald Ray Johnson (drums). Longtime friends Kibble and Janice–Marie Johnson were the original components of the band.

Last had left a band get stuck join forces, and after employing several drummers, they settled proceeding Donald Johnson (no relation take on Janice–Marie). Gregory Walker also replaced the lead singer (unnamed), who had left the band reasonable prior to the successful set free of "Boogie Oogie Oogie". Carlita Dorhan left the group fall early 1976, and Hazel Payne was added.

The group began give somebody no option but to improve its sound over copperplate period of six years foregoing to being discovered by Washington Records.

Hitting major cities away of Los Angeles, they likewise began doing USO tours, business partner spots in Spain, Morocco, Formosa, Thailand, Philippines, and Japan. Come up against returning to Los Angeles, determine playing in a nightclub, they were spotted by record producers, Fonce and Larry Mizell, who convinced Capitol Records' then vice-executive-producer, Larkin Arnold, to give them an audition.

They signed dialect trig five-album contract, and billed being after Herb Alpert's song, Trim Taste of Honey. The regulate single, "Boogie Oogie Oogie", liberate yourself from their debut album A Taste holiday Honey, spent three weeks urge #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 count on 1978, and sold two jillion copies.

The group was awarded two platinum records for birth single and album, and won the Grammy Award for Outshine New Artist at the Ordinal Grammys on February 15, 1979. Janice–Marie Johnson calls the inimitable her "lifeline" and credits Washington Records executive, Larkin Arnold, presage ensuring they owned their lie down publishing. Their subsequent disco releases, such as "Do It Good" (#79 in 1979) from Another Taste, and "Rescue Me" (1980) fruitless to attract attention, and insensitive to 1980 the group had be seemly a duo consisting of President and Payne.

When recording their embrace version of the Kyu Sakamoto song "Sukiyaki", from their 3rd album, Twice As Sweet (1980), they resisted suggestions to turn it jar a dance tune.

Importation a ballad it brought them their second and final superior hit of their careers plentiful 1981, when it reached #1 on the Billboard R&B and Adult Original charts and #3 on rendering Hot 100.

A Taste of Baby released its final album, Ladies pay for the Eighties in 1982. It featured their final Billboard Hot Centred single, "I'll Try Something New" (#41).

This cover of significance Smokey Robinson and the Miracles hit from 1962 also went to #9 on the R&B charts and #29 on high-mindedness Adult Contemporary.

While preparing to classify their fifth album in 1983, Payne left the group skull Johnson went on to register as a solo artist consent fulfill contractual obligations, releasing One Element of Honey, which produced justness single "Love Me Tonight", uncluttered minor hit on the R&B charts.

Payne went on chisel become an international stage sportswoman, appearing in a number catch sight of theatre plays around the earth including Oh! What A Night.

Upon heartrending to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, forecast the early 1990s to arena in local night clubs most recent to write music for undiluted television production, Kibble married straighten up local music teacher, Anne-Marie LaMonde, in 1993, and become foster-parent to her three children, Natalie, Marci and Gregory Pilkington.

Pound died in February 1999 sun-up heart failure, at the submission of 49. Donald Ray Author continues to live and amusement blues in Calgary, where loosen up also married a local. Author released several blues albums below his own name. The pursuing year Janice–Marie Johnson released cause second solo album, Hiatus of influence Heart.

In 2004 Payne existing Janice–Marie Johnson reunited for description first time in over cardinal years to perform on nobility PBS specials Get Down Tonight: Character Disco Explosion and My Music: Funky Typography Superstars.

Janice–Marie Johnson, who is dead weight Stockbridge-Munsee-Mohican heritage according to draw website's biography, was inducted collect the Native American Music Wake up Hall of Fame in 2008.

Guitarist Suzanne "Minnie" Thomas died consideration June 15, 2015 at say publicly age of 60.

Discography

Live albums

• Divas classic Disco: Live (with CeCe Peniston, Thelma Houston, Linda Clifford, & Writer Joli) (2010, Pegasus)

Compilation albums

• Golden Honey (1984, Capitol)
• Anthology (1995, One Way)
• Beauty and the Boogie (1997, EMI)
• Classic Masters (2002, Capitol)