Johnny Kongos - London town
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Channel: keurspel (Leon Rossouw) · 2018 · Music
John Theodore Kongos is a South African artist born in Johannesburg on 06 August 1945. He had great success in South Africa, both as a solo artist and with his group Johnny & The G-Men, before going to the UK to pursue his musical career. He formed two UK based groups, Floribunda Rose (with Pete Clifford - guitar and Jack Russell - bass, vocals) and Scrugg, and spent 18 months gigging in Britain and Europe, before he released his first solo album, “Confusions About a Goldfish” in 1970. He then concentrated on song writing and began to have major success in Germany and other European countries. In 1971 he had two hit singles – "He's Gonna Step On You Again" (UK No. 4, May 1971; U.S. Billboard Hot 100 No. 70) and "Tokoloshe Man" (UK No. 4, November 1971), before releasing his second solo album, “Kongos”, in 1972. It reached the Top 30 on the UK Albums Chart. He continued to work in his own London studio as a record producer, sound engineer, TV jingle, theme music composer and songwriter, as well as handling the programming of the Fairlight CMI synthesizer on Def Leppard's 1983 album, “Pyromania”. He is married to Shelley and has four sons, Johnny, Jesse, Dylan, and Daniel, who work as a rock band under the title “Kongos”. This song is off the compilation album "Record Express Dance Party", released in 1966. Record Express was a monthly teenage magazine published in South Africa in the 1960s.
