John Congos

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John Kongos (born August 6, 1945 in Johannesburg , South Africa ) is a singer and songwriter .

Life

After John Kongos had some record successes with his band "Johnny and the G-Men" and as a solo artist in his home country South Africa in the early 1960s, he went to Great Britain in 1966 to advance his career. In April 1967 he founded the band "Floribunda Rose", to which Pete Clifford (guitar), Jack Russell (bass, vocals), Nick Doktor (drums) and Chris Demetriou (keyboard) belonged. After a single was released ( Linda Loves Linda ), Clifford and Doktor left the band, and with drummer Henry Spinetti the remaining musicians recorded three more unsuccessful singles as the psychedelic rock band “Scrugg”.

In 1969 Kongos released his first solo album on Dawn / Pye, produced by Gus Dudgeon , titled Confusions About a Goldfish , which was not very successful. After that, he concentrated on writing songs. Two of his songs, Won't You Join Me and Will You Follow Me, were great hits in Germany in 1970 and 1971 in German vocal versions by Daliah Lavi ( Oh, when are you coming and Will you go with me ).

He had his commercial breakthrough as a singer in mid-1971 with the Fly Records single He's Gonna Step on You Again , which was an international hit parade. In Great Britain, the follow-up single Tokoloshe Man was able to place in the top ten and his album Kongos , released in 1971, reached the top 30 of the LP charts there. However, there were no further successes.

John is married to jewelry designer Shelley and has four sons: John Joseph, Jesse, Dylan and Daniel Lee. They work together as a rock band called Kongos . John lives with his family currently in Phoenix (Arizona) in the United States .

Discography (selection)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Congo
  UK 29 January 15, 1972 (2 weeks)
Singles
He's gonna step on you again
  DE 26th 07/26/1971 (6 weeks)
  UK 4th 05/22/1971 (14 weeks)
  US 70 07/10/1971 (7 weeks)
Tokoloshe Man
  UK 4th 11/20/1971 (11 weeks)

LPs / CDs

  • Confusions About a Goldfish - 1969
  • Congo - 1971
  • Lavender Popcorn 1966-1969 - Castle 2001 (compilation including Floribunda Rose, Scrugg & John Kongos)

Singles

John Congos

  • I Love Mary / Goodtime Party Companion - 1966
  • Flim Flam Pharisee / Boold - 1970
  • He's Gonna Step on You Again / Sometimes It's Not Enough - 1971
  • Tokoloshe Man / Can Someone Please Direct Me Back to Earth - 1971
  • Great White Lady / Shamarack - 1972
  • Higher Than God's Hat / Would You Follow Me - 1973
  • Ride the Lightning / I Won't Ask You Where You've Been - 1975
  • I No.7 (Only Wants to Get to Heaven) / Slow Talkin 'Boy - 1976
  • Tomorrow I'll Go / Come On Down Jesus

Floribunda Rose

  • Linda Loves Linda - 1967

Scrugg

  • Everyone Can See / I Wish I Was Five

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shelley Kongos ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.shelleykongos.com
  2. ↑ Congos - rock band of the sons of John Congo
  3. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE UK US
personal data
SURNAME Congos, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg