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BiographyTownsend was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee and his family soon moved to Memphis where his father was pastor at an African Methodist Episcopal church. The year Townsend graduated from high school, he was elected to the International American Methodist Episcopal Youth Council (IAMEYC) and traveled worldwide before enrolling in college the next year at Arkansas State College. After graduating, he taught for a year. Although he never formally practiced law, he frequently used his law training to assist other entertainers in negotiating their recording and performance contracts. In 1951, Townsend joined the United States Marine Corps and served in Korea. After his discharge, he recorded a number of singles for various labels, none of which made the charts. In 1958, he took his ballad, "For Your Love" to Capitol Records, hoping to interest Nat “King” Cole, but, impressed with his voice, Capitol signed him to record it himself. Dick Clark had just started American Bandstand on television and invited Townsend to sing the first month the show aired. He was an overnight success and the song peaked at number 13 in the Billboard Hot 100. Later in 1958 he reached #59 with a rendition of "When I Grow Too Old to Dream". Townsend had no further vocal hits of his own. In 1962, he wrote a song for soul singer, Jimmy Holiday, "How Can I Forget?", which was later covered by Ben E. King. Then he wrote and produced Theola Kilgore’s "The Love Of My Man." He also composed "Tears Of Joy", "Hand It Over", "I Might Like It", "Since I Found You" and "Foolish Fool". In the early 1970s, Ed Townsend teamed up with Marvin Gaye to write one "Let's Get It On", from the album of the same title.[2] [3][4]Townsend performed on the PBS television special "Rock, Rhythm, and Doo Wop" filmed at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 16 and 17, 2000. DVDs of the event were sold as fundraisers for PBS stations nationwide. Ed's son David Townsend, of the band Surface, died at age fifty in 2005.[1] Honored with a Purple Heart in the Korean War, Townsend is buried at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California. DiscographyAlbums
Singles
FilmographyTownsend served as Composer for:
In the R&B world, he is best remembered for his work with Dee Dee Warwick on "I Wanna Be With You", "Foolish Fool" and "That's Not Love" References
Notes1. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article334783.ece |title=David Townsend - Singer with the soul trio Surface |last=Perrone |first=Pierre |work=Independent.co.uk - Obituaries |date=December 25, 2005 |accessdate=April 24, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051225225643/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article334783.ece |archivedate=December 25, 2005 |df= }} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/944-natural-resources|title=Natural Resources|work=Oxford American, Issue 93, Summer 2016|author=J. M. Martin|date=15 August 2016|accessdate=18 August 2016}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.msbluestrail.org/blues-trail-markers/mound-bayou-blues|title=Mound Bayou Blues|accessdate=18 August 2016}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=90065|title=Mound Bayou Blues historical marker|accessdate=18 August 2016}} External links
10 : 1929 births|2003 deaths|Carlton Records artists|Challenge Records artists|Liberty Records artists|Capitol Records artists|People from Fayetteville, Tennessee|Arkansas State University alumni|Burials at Riverside National Cemetery|People from Mound Bayou, Mississippi |
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