- Ashford & Simpson【 7 albums 66 lyrics 】
- Ashford & Simpson were a husband-and-wife songwriting-production team and recording duo of Nickolas Ashford (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011) and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946).
Ashford was born in Fairfield, South Carolina, and Simpson in the Bronx, New York. Afterwards, his family relocated to Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he became a member of Christ Temple Baptist Church. While there, he sang with a group called The Hammond Singers (named after the founding minister, James Hammond). Later, Nickolas attended and graduated from Willow Run High School in Ypsilanti, Michigan, before pursuing his professional career, where he would ultimately meet his wife, Valerie. They met at Harlem's White Rock Baptist Church in 1964. After having recorded unsuccessfully as a duo, they joined an aspiring solo artist and former member of the Ikettes, Joshie Jo Armstead, at the Scepter/Wand label, where their compositions were recorded by Ronnie Milsap ('Never Had It So Good'), Maxine Brown ('One Step at a Time'), as well as the Shirelles and Chuck Jackson. Another of the trio's songs, 'Let's Go Get Stoned', gave Ray Charles a number one U.S. R&B hit in 1966. That same year, Ashford & Simpson joined Motown, where their best-known songs included 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough', 'You're All I Need To Get By', 'Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing', and 'Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)'. Ashford and Simpson wrote many other hit songs, including Chaka Khan's 'I'm Every Woman' (1978) and Teddy Pendergrass's 'Is It Still Good to You?'.
As performers, Ashford & Simpson's best-known duets are 'Solid' and 'Found a Cure' (1979). The duo was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. Ashford and Simpson were also recipients of The Rhythm & Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award in 1999, and ASCAP's highest honor, the Founder's Award, which they received on March 18, 1996. - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
- Album name Release Date Song
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Stay Free
2010
1.Found A Cure -
High-Rise
1983
1.High-Rise
2.Side Effect (Provided)
3.Experience (Love Had No Face)
4.It's A Rush (Provided)5.My Kinda Pick Me Up (Provided)
6.I'm Not That Tough (Provided)
7.It's Much Deeper (Provided)
8.Still Such A Thing (Provided) -
Performance
1981
1.Nobody Knows (Live Version)
2.It Seems To Hang On (Live Version)
3.Don't Cost You Nothing (Live Version)4.Love Don't Make It Right (Live Version)
5.Found a Cure (Live Version) -
Come As You Are
1976
1.Sell The House
2.It Came To Me
3.Tell It All
4.Somebody Told A Lie5.Believe In Me
6.One More Try
7.It'll Come, It'll Come, It'll Come
8.Caretaker (Provided) -
I Wanna Be Selfish
1974
1.Spoiled (Provided)
2.Everybody's Got To Give It Up (Provided)
3.I Wanna Be Selfish (Provided)
4.I Had A Love (Provided)
5.Don't Fight It (Provided)6.Main Line (Provided)
7.Ain't That Somethin' (Provided)
8.Ain't Nothing But A Maybe (Provided)
9.Over To Where You Are (Provided)
10.Take All The Time You Need (Provided) -
Solid
1.Tonight We Escape (We Make Love)
2.Babies (extended mix)3.Solid (Special club mix)
4.Solid -
Miscellaneous
1.It Seems To Hang On
2.Don't Cost You Nothing
3.Happy Endings
4.Get Out You Handkerchief
5.I Ain't Asking For Your Love
6.I'm Determined
7.Make It To The Sky
8.Is It Still Good To Ya
9.Too Bad
10.Let Love Use Me
11.By Way Of Love's Express
12.Street Corner
13.Count Your Blessings
14.Solid(As A Rock)
15.Til We Get It Right16.Babies
17.Love Don't Make It Right
18.So So Satisfied - Single Version
19.I'll Be There for You
20.So So Satisfied
21.Send It
22.I'll Take the Whole World On
23.It Seems to Hang On (12' disco mix)
24.Stay Free
25.Is It Still Good to Ya? (single version)
26.Outta the World
27.It Seems to Hang On (Tommy Musto Re-Touch)
28.Honey I Love You
29.You're All I Need To Get By
30.Reach Out And Touch (Somebody's Hand)
【Correction of errors in the album information】