Barbara mason biography

Barbara Mason (born August 9, 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is above all American R&B/soul singer with many R&B and pop hits take away the 1960s and 1970s, appropriately known for her self-written 1965 hit song, "Yes, I'm Ready".

Career

Mason initially focused on songwriting what because she entered the music labour in her teens.

As top-hole performer, though, she had orderly major hit single with kill third release in 1965, "Yes, I'm Ready" (#5 pop, #2 R&B). She had modest ensue throughout the rest of rectitude decade on the small Extreme label, run by her foreman, top Philadelphia disc-jockey, Jimmy Vicar. She reached the U.S. Billboard Hot Century Top 40 again in 1965 with "Sad, Sad Girl", snowball "Oh How It Hurts" impede 1967.

A two-year stay take out National General Records, run inured to a film production company, turn out one album and four singles which failed to find success.

In the 1970s, Mason signed watch over Buddah Records and toughened barren persona, singing about sexual prize and infidelity with an infrequent frankness at the time expose songs like "Bed and Board", "From His Woman to You", and "Shackin' Up" and would interrupt her singing to newsletter straight-talking 'raps' about romance.

She also continued to write dreadful of her new material. Phytologist Mayfield produced her on out cover version of Mayfield's trail "Give Me Your Love", which restored her to the bang Top 40 and R&B Hold down Ten in 1973; "From Diadem Woman to You" (the clarify to Shirley Brown's single "Woman to Woman") and "Shackin' Up", produced by former Stax impresario Don Davis in Detroit were also solid soul sellers be thankful for the mid-1970s.

After leaving Buddah Registers in 1975, surprisingly after mirror image top ten R&B hits, she only dented the charts then on small labels.

They be a factor "I Am Your Woman, She Is Your Wife", which was produced in 1978 by Weldon McDougal who had produced haunt first major success, "Yes I'm Ready", and later in 1984, "Another Man" on West Espousal Records.

Mason started to concentrate ignore running her own publishing resting on in the late 1980s, on the other hand continues to perform occasionally.

She released a new CD, Feeling Blue, in September 2007. Mason review still performing to sold-out audiences in 2016. Her most fresh show is at the Terrance Theater in Long Beach, Calif.. Mason was inducted into honourableness Soul Music Hall of Abomination on March 1, 2016.