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I really love 'Cant Live Without Your Love' from 1979. I have it on many compilation CDs & the 12"single too but does anyone know of any other Tamiko Jones records. The only one I've heard is her version of Marvin Gaye's 'I Want You' which is a brilliant slinky slower, but still disco treatment of the song (this was on the radio).
I can't imagine she was a one-shot diva.
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Another title by Tamiko Jones is a "morning music" tempo number titled "Let It Flow'. Also, if you have the Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage, there's a picture of Tamiko with Tom Moulton & Grace Jones, among others. I thought Tamiko was Chita Rivera until I read the photo caption. She somehow flew under my radar until recently.
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Yes Marky,I have that CD with that picture but it doesn't say who the woman is next to Grace Jones does it? I assume she's 'disco royalty' if she hung out with that gang.
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Hmmm, well now you've stumped me. Maybe it was Keefe who told me that was Tamiko in that photo. Are we wrong??? I have no idea what she looks like.
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The same photo is in the Mel Cheren book, where that girl is named Maje James
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Ah well, sometimes you're right and sometimes you're wrong. I could swear someone told me that was Tamiko, but I guess it's not.
Thanks Giovanni for clearing things up.
So what did Tamiko look like? Half Asian & half Black? I'm just askin!!!!!
"Lost inside adorable illusion...."
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Tamiko Jones also did a relatively nice version of Stevie Wonder's "Creepin'". Mark, there's a photo of her in some compilation I have, but I don't recall, offhand, which one.
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Ok, here's some info on Tamiko Jones:
Born Barbara Tamiko Ferguson in 1945 in Kyle, West Virginia; raised in Detroit.
R&B Chart Hits:
1975: Touch Me Baby (Reaching Out For Your Love) (Arista) reached #12 on R&B chart; #60 Pop
1975: Just You And Me (Arista) #78 R&B
1976: Let It Flow (Contempo) #76 R&B (Mine is on T.K. Disco)
1977: Cloudy b/w Let It Flow (Atlantis) #92 R&B
1979: Can't Live Without Your Love b/w Let It Flow (Polydor) #70 R&B
1980 I Want You (Sutra) #81 R&B
That's all that made the R&B charts.
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Many thanx 4 that info guyz.
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