A Taste of Honey (Band)
A Taste Of Honey was a Grammy -winning American disco band Boogie Oogie Ooogie recorded in 1978 one of the greatest successes of the disco era. Three years later they succeeded with the ballad Sukiyaki a second and final connection success. In 1983 the band broke up.
History
The group was founded in 1972 in Los Angeles. To the founding members Janice Marie Johnson and Perry Kibble formed up to 1978 again and again other members, unexpectedly entered the great success. The Boogie Oogie Oogie self-written song from their debut LP A Taste Of Honey fit exactly in the greatest time of the former disco wave and spent three weeks at the top of the American charts. The group received platinum for this single and was the first black band that won a Grammy for "Best New Artist ". The award was partly discussed controversially in the press, as also nominated rock acts The Cars and Elvis Costello as favors much higher were classified.
The follow-up single Disco Dancin ' flopped against it. Things went better in 1979 with Do It Good Another key from her second album - after all, number 79 in the U.S. and number 13 in the R & B charts. Furthermore, A Taste of Honey went on tour with artists such as The Commodores, The Isley Brothers and Betty Wright.
1980 were only Johnson and Hazel Payne back as a duo. The two managed in 1981 with a cover version of Kyu Sakamoto's Sukiyaki again a big hit in the U.S.. However, this new version had a completely new text over the original. The last album of A Taste of Honey comes from the year 1982. It also contained her last Billboard charts quotation I'll Try Something New, a cover version of a song by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. After that, A Taste of Honey separated. Up to this time they had placed a total of eight hits on the R & B charts.
In 1984 Janice her first solo album One Taste Of Honey, from which the single Love Me Tonite was disengaged. The song reached a modest number 67 in the R & B charts. Another solo album did not appear until 2000 ( Hiatus of the Heart ), followed by a single in 2002 ( Until the Eagle Falls ). Johnson, a Stockbridge Munsee - Mohican was, but still awarded in the same year with the Native American Music Award as Best Producer and 2008, she was inducted into the NAMA Hall of Fame.
Perry Kibble (keyboards) died in February 1999 from the effects of heart failure.