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 | US | 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
(89 weeks)US |
R&B3 (60 weeks) R&B |
A&M Records
|
1984 | Don't stop |
UK59 (3 weeks) UK |
US39
gold
(37 weeks)US |
R&B7 (38 weeks) R&B |
A&M Records
|
1986 | Emotionally | - |
US26th
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 | US | 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 |
with Joyce Kennedy
|
|
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 |
with Dionne Warwick
|
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
- 1994: Far Longer than Forever (with Regina Belle )
Web links
- Official website of Jeffrey Osborne
- Jeffrey Osborne at Allmusic (English)
- Jeffrey Osborne at Discogs (English)
- Jeffrey Osborne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Joel Whitburn: Top R&B Singles 1942-1995, 1996 ISBN 0-89820-115-2
- ↑ imdb.com
- ↑ a b Chart sources: UK US
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Osborne, Jeffrey |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American funk and R&B musician |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Providence , Rhode Island , USA |