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About|the singerRefimprove|date=May 2010Infobox musical artist| name = Tyrone Davis| image =| caption =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Tyrone Fettson| alias = Tyrone the Wonder Boy| Born = Birth date|mf=yes|1938|5|4 Wilmot, Mississippi , United States | Died = death date and age|mf=yes|2005|2|9|1938|5|4 Chicago, Illinois | origin =| instrument =| genre = soul music|Soul , rhythm and blues|R& B , Chicago soul | occupation = singer | years_active = Early 1960s& ndash;2004| label = Dakar Records|Dakar , Columbia Records|Columbia , Highrise, Ocean Front, Future, Ichiban, Malaco Records|Malaco | associated_acts =|website =| notable_instruments = Tyrone Davis (May 4, 1938 – February 9, 2005), born Tyrone Fettson , http://www.kirbycarmichael.com/new_page_9.htm Funeral reports and obituaries at KirbyCarmichael.com was a leading United States|American soul music|soul singing|singer with a distinctive style, recording a long list of hit record s over a period of more than 20 years. He had three no. 1 hits on the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard R& B chart : " Can I Change My Mind " (1968), "" Turn Back the Hands of Time (song)|Turn Back The Hands Of Time "" (1970), and " Turning Point (Tyrone Davis song)|Turning Point " (1975).
Career
Tyrone Fettson was born in a rural community twenty miles outside of Greenville, Mississippi|Greenville , Mississippi to Willie Branch and Ora Lee Jones. He moved with his father to Saginaw, Michigan|Saginaw , Michigan , before relocating to Chicago in 1959.
Working as a valet/chauffeur for blues singer Freddie King , he started singing in local nightclub|clubs where he was discovered by record executive/musician Harold Burrage. His early gramophone record|records for small record label s in the city, billed as " Tyrone the Wonder Boy ",Robert Pruter, Obituary: Tyrone Davis , Juke Blues no.58, 2005, p.66 failed to register. Successful Chicago record producer Carl Davis (record producer)|Carl Davis signed him in 1968 to a new label, Dakar Records that he was starting as part of a distribution deal with Atlantic Records|Atlantic , and suggested that he use the stage name Tyrone Davis. His first release, "A Woman Needs To Be Loved" was flipped when the A-side and B-side|b-side started to get radio station|radio attention. The song, "Can I Change My Mind" featured a change of vocal style for Davis with a softer, more pleading approach and tone. The record now shot up the listings and spent three weeks on the top of the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard Hot R& B/Hip-Hop Songs|R& B record chart|chart while climbing to #5 in the Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100 . It sold over one million and received gold disc recognition. His biggest hit came in early 1970 when " Turn Back the Hands of Time (song)|Turn Back The Hands Of Time " also reached #1 in the R& B chart and went up to #3 in the Hot 100 pop music|pop chart. Songwriter|Written by Jack Daniels and Bonnie Thompson, this gramophone record|disc also sold over one million copies, and received a music recording sales certification|gold disc awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America in May 1970.cite book | first= Joseph | last= Murrells | year= 1978 | title= The Book of Golden Discs | edition= 2nd | publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd | location= London | page= 301 | isbn= 0-214-20512-6
Davis released about 25 singles during his seven years with Dakar, most of them big R& B sellers produced by Willie Henderson. He finally returned to the top spot with "Turning Point" in 1975. Soon afterwards, Davis switched to the major Columbia Records|Columbia record label and recorded seven albums over the next five years with producer Leo Graham and arranger James Mack who had collaborated with him for "Turning Point". Major hits with Columbia included "Give It Up" (#2), "This I Swear" (#6), and "In The Mood" (#6).
1982 brought a change of label to the newly-established independent, Highrise and another major hit, "Are You Serious" (#3 R& B, #57 pop), again produced by Leo Graham, and songwriter|written by L.V. Johnson .cite web |url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p27783/biography|pure_url=yes |title=L.V. Johnson |author=Wynn, Ron|publisher= Allmusic |accessdate=May 27, 2010 When Highrise closed the following year, Davis switched to a tiny Los Angeles label Ocean Front which lacked promotional muscle to get behind arguably one of his best performances, "Let Me Be Your Pacifier". Davis' days as a major chart act were over but he continued to be a popular live attraction and finally signed in 1996 with Malaco Records , the southern-based blues label recording him on a number of albums.
A stroke in September 2004 curtailed his career, and following complications he death|died in a Chicago hospital in February 2005 at the age of 66. http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2005.html Thedeadrockstarsclub.com - accessed May 2010 He left a widow, Ann, to whom he had been married for over 40 years, and several children and grandchildren.
His younger sibling|sister , Jean Davis, was a member of the group, Facts of Life (band)|Facts of Life .
http://www.soulexpress.net/tyronedavis_discography.htm The complete Tyrone Davis discography at Soul Express
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