Joe Simon
Joe Simon – born in Simmesport, Louisiana on September 7, 1936 – was a Grammy
Award-winning R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and producer. He began singing in
his father’s Baptist Church but did not pursue a professional career in music
until his family moved to Richmond, California in the late 1950s. Influenced by
singers like Sam Cooke and Arthur Prysock, he joined the Golden West Gospel
Singers, who then went secular in 1959 and recorded under the name the Golden
Tones. Joe Simon went solo and scored his first solo hit, “My Adorable One”, in
1964. Throughout the rest of the 19...
