Biography
Inez Foxx (9 September 1942, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA) and Charlie Foxx (b. 29 October 1939, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, d. 18 September 1998, Mobile, Alabama, USA). A brother and sister duo, Inez was a former member of the Gospel Tide Chorus. Her first solo single, ‘A Feeling’, was issued on Brunswick Records, credited to ‘Inez Johnston’. Charlie was, meanwhile, a budding songwriter and his reworking of a nursery rhyme, ‘Mockingbird’, became their first single together. Released on Sue Records’ subsidiary Symbol, it was a US Top 10 hit in 1963, although it was not until 1969 that the song charted in the UK Top 40. Their immediate releases followed the same contrived pattern, but later recordings for Musicor/Dynamo, in particular ‘I Stand Accused’, were more adventurous. However, their final hit together, ‘(1-2-3-4-5-6-7) Count The Days’ (1967), was modelled closely on that early style. Solo again,...
Read the Full Biography of Inez & Charlie Foxx
|
OLDIES.com on
|
