Vinyl records

Syl Johnson vinyl records

9 albums with 109 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Sylvester Thompson. b. 1st July 1936, Holly Springs, Mississippi, U.S.A. Died, 6 February 2022 (Age 85) American funk/soul/blues singer and music producer. Johnson sang and played with blues artists Magic Sam, Billy Boy Arnold, Junior Wells and Howlin' Wolf in the 1950s, before recording with Jimmy Reed for Vee Jay Records in 1959. He made his solo debut that same year with Federal Records, a subsidiary of King Records of Cincinnati, backed by Freddie King on guitar. He then began recording for Twinight Records of Chicago in the mid 1960s. Beginning with his first hit, Come On Sock It to Me in 1967, Johnson dominated the label as both a hitmaker and producer.