Jeffrey Osborne

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Jeffrey Osborne

Jeffrey Osborne (* 9. March 1948 as Jeffrey Linton Osborne in Providence , Rhode Iceland ) is an American radio and R & B musician, songwriter and former lead singer of the band LTD

Life

Osborne is the youngest of 12 children in a musical family. He has five brothers and six sisters, some of whom have followed him into the music business. His brother Billy was also with LTD. Osborne's father, Clarence “Legs” Osborne, was a great trumpeter who played with Lionel Hampton , Count Basie and Duke Ellington .

Osborne started his music career in 1969 with a band called Love Men Ltd., which later got the abbreviation LTD. The band recorded hits like Love Ballad (1976), Everytime I Turn Around (Back in Love Again) (1977) and Holding on (When Love Is Gone) (1978). All of these titles were number one on the American R&B charts. At first Osborne was just the group's drummer, later he also took on the lead vocal. From 1980 he started his solo career.

In 1982 Osborne released his named debut album on A&M , which includes his first two hit singles, On the Wings of Love and I Really Don't Need No Light . In total, Osborne has had 25 hits on the R&B charts to date. In the standard work Top R&B Singles 1942–1995 , he is listed as 19th among the most successful artists of the 1980s. Other successful hits were Don't You Get So Mad , Stay with Me Tonight (1983), The Last Time I Made Love (1984, with Joyce Kennedy ), You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song) (1986), Love Power (1987, with Dionne Warwick ), She's on the Left (1988, his only number one hit as a soloist on the R&B charts), and Only Human (1990). His albums from 1983-86 were each awarded gold for 500,000 units sold. He also received three Grammy nominations during those years. Another followed in 2001.

In 2013 he recorded an album of standards called A Time for Love . This CD was one of the last productions by George Duke shortly before his death.

In 1985 Osborne was part of the superstar band USA for Africa , who recorded the charity hit We Are the World .

Osborne is married and has three children.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK US US R&B R&B
1982 Jeffrey Osborne - US49 (43 weeks)
US 		R&B3 (48 weeks)
R&B
A&M Records
1983 Stay with Me Tonight UK56 (7 weeks)
UK 		US25th
gold
gold

(89 weeks)US 		R&B3 (60 weeks)
R&B
A&M Records
1984 Don't stop UK59 (3 weeks)
UK 		US39
gold
gold

(37 weeks)US 		R&B7 (38 weeks)
R&B
A&M Records
1986 Emotionally - US26th
gold
gold

(26 weeks)US 		R&B5 (29 weeks)
R&B
A&M Records
1988 One Love: One Dream - US86 (16 weeks)
US 		R&B12 (28 weeks)
R&B
A&M Records
1990 Only human - US95 (23 weeks)
US 		R&B9 (36 weeks)
R&B
Arista Records
1997 Something warm for Christmas - - R&B86 (1 week)
R&B
A&M Records
2000 That's for sure - US191 (1 week)
US 		R&B50 (14 weeks)
R&B
Private music
2003 Music Is Life - - R&B50 (8 weeks)
R&B
cook
2005 From the soul - - R&B72 (6 weeks)
R&B
cook
2013 A time to love - - R&B34 (7 weeks)
R&B
Rykodisc / Warner

More albums

  • 1999: Ultimate Collection (Hip-O)
  • 2001: Love Songs
  • 2002: Best of Jeffrey Osborne - Millennium Collection

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK US US R&B R&B
1982 I Really Don't Need No Light
Jeffrey Osborne 		- US39 (15 weeks)
US 		R&B3 (23 weeks)
R&B
feat. Lynn Davis
On the Wings of Love
Jeffrey Osborne 		UK11 (14 weeks)
UK 		US29 (18 weeks)
US 		R&B13 (15 weeks)
R&B
Chart entry in UK only in 1984
1983 Eenie Meenie
Jeffrey Osborne 		- US76 (5 weeks)
US 		-
Don't You Get So Mad
Stay with Me Tonight 		UK54 (7 weeks)
UK 		US25 (14 weeks)
US 		R&B3 (19 weeks)
R&B
Stay with Me Tonight
Stay with Me Tonight 		UK18 (12 weeks)
UK 		US30 (21 weeks)
US 		R&B4 (20 weeks)
R&B
1984 Plane Love
Stay with Me Tonight 		- - R&B10 (13 weeks)
R&B
We're Going All the Way
Stay with Me Tonight 		- US48 (12 weeks)
US 		R&B16 (14 weeks)
R&B
The Last Time I Made Love
 - US40 (12 weeks)
US 		R&B2 (18 weeks)
R&B
Don't stop,
don't stop 		UK61 (3 weeks)
UK 		US44 (15 weeks)
US 		R&B6 (17 weeks)
R&B
The Borderlines
Don't Stop 		UK98 (1 week)
UK 		US38 (11 weeks)
US 		R&B7 (16 weeks)
R&B
1985 Let me know
don't stop 		- - R&B44 (9 weeks)
R&B
1986 You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song)
Emotional 		- US13 (19 weeks)
US 		R&B2 (19 weeks)
R&B
Soweto
Emotional 		UK44 (7 weeks)
UK 		- R&B18 (13 weeks)
R&B
Room with a View
Emotional 		UK96 (2 weeks)
UK 		- R&B29 (9 weeks)
R&B
In Your Eyes
Emotional 		- - R&B82 (6 weeks)
R&B
1987 Love Power
Reservations for Two 		UK63 (5 weeks)
UK 		US12 (14 weeks)
US 		R&B5 (14 weeks)
R&B
1988 She's on the left
 - US48 (11 weeks)
US 		R&B1 (16 weeks)
R&B
Can't Go Back on a Promise
One Love - One Dream 		- - R&B28 (14 weeks)
R&B
1989 All Because of You
One Love - One Dream 		- - R&B48 (9 weeks)
R&B
Take Good Care of You and Me
 UK93 (2 weeks)
UK 		- R&B46 (9 weeks)
R&B
with Dionne Warwick
1990 Only human,
only human 		- - R&B3 (21 weeks)
R&B
1991 If My Brother's in Trouble
Only Human 		- - R&B11 (13 weeks)
R&B
The Morning After I Made Love to You
Only Human 		- - R&B24 (11 weeks)
R&B
2003 The Rest of Our Lives
Music Is Life 		- - R&B75 (9 weeks)
R&B
2005 Yes I'm Ready
From The Soul 		- - R&B64 (14 weeks)
R&B

More singles

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joel Whitburn: Top R&B Singles 1942-1995, 1996 ISBN 0-89820-115-2
  2. ↑ imdb.com
  3. ↑ a b Chart sources: UK US
  4. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
personal data
SURNAME Osborne, Jeffrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American funk and R&B musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island , USA