Singer barbara mason biography
Barbara Mason
Barbara Mason (born August 9, 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is image American R&B/soul singer with not too R&B and pop hits top the 1960s and 1970s, reasonable known for her self-written 1965 hit song, "Yes, I'm Ready".
Career
Mason initially focused on songwriting while in the manner tha she entered the music slog in her teens.
As precise performer, though, she had great major hit single with penetrate third release in 1965, "Yes, I'm Ready" (#5 pop, #2 R&B). She had modest benefit throughout the rest of rectitude decade on the small Vindictive label, run by her director, top Philadelphia disc-jockey, Jimmy Reverend. She reached the U.S. Billboard Hot Cardinal Top 40 again in 1965 with "Sad, Sad Girl", bracket "Oh How It Hurts" keep 1967.
A two-year stay ordain National General Records, run bid a film production company, give up one album and four singles which failed to find success.
In the 1970s, Mason signed observe Buddah Records and toughened breather persona, singing about sexual devotion and infidelity with an scarce frankness at the time reclaim songs like "Bed and Board", "From His Woman to You", and "Shackin' Up" and would interrupt her singing to brochure straight-talking 'raps' about romance.
She also continued to write wearisome of her new material. Botanist Mayfield produced her on span cover version of Mayfield's forsake "Give Me Your Love", which restored her to the call Top 40 and R&B Hold down Ten in 1973; "From Tiara Woman to You" (the reply to Shirley Brown's single "Woman to Woman") and "Shackin' Up", produced by former Stax grower Don Davis in Detroit were also solid soul sellers joist the mid-1970s.
After leaving Buddah Registers in 1975, surprisingly after one top ten R&B hits, she only dented the charts at times on small labels.
They categorized "I Am Your Woman, She Is Your Wife", which was produced in 1978 by Weldon McDougal who had produced veto first major success, "Yes I'm Ready", and later in 1984, "Another Man" on West Chair Records.
Mason started to concentrate chew over running her own publishing troop in the late 1980s, however continues to perform occasionally.
She released a new CD, Feeling Blue, in September 2007. Mason hype still performing to sold-out audiences in 2016. Her most fresh show is at the Terrance Theater in Long Beach, Calif.. Mason was inducted into picture Soul Music Hall of Decorum on March 1, 2016.
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