Oscar Toney, Jr.

Oscar Toney, Jr.

Oscar Toney, Jr.

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Top Songs

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Everybody's Needed
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Love's Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
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Is It Because I'm Black
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Make It Easy on Yourself
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My Girl

Albums

  • For Your Precious Love

    Sep 2017 • 11 songs

  • Loving You Too Long - The Contempo Sessions
  • Guilty: A Southern Soul Renaissance

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Oscar Toney, Jr.

Biography

Oscar Toney, Jr. recorded some soulful sides for Bell Records in the late '60s that will forever etch him into soul music lovers' memories. The emotive singer born May 26, 1939, in Selma, AL, was raised in Columbus, GA. He sung gospel in church and high school with a group he called the Sensational Melodies of Joy. After high school he ventured into secular music with the Searchers waxing "Wow Wow Baby" b/w "Ooo-Wee" on Class Records in 1958. They kept searching doing local and regional gigs and in 1961 cut a final recording, "Yvonne" b/w "Little Wanda," on Max Records. Like t...
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