Jocelyn Brown
(born Jocelyn Lorette Brown, November 25 1950, Kinston, North Carolina) — sometimes credited as Jocelyn Shaw — is an R&B and dance music singer. Although she has only one Billboard Hot 100 chart entry in her name, she has an extensive background in the music industry and is well-known in the world of dance music.
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Career
Brown started out in the late 1970s singing on
records by
studio created
bands like
Musique,
Inner Life, Bad Girls,
Salsoul Orchestra, Disco Tex and The Sex-O-Lettes,
Cerrone,
Chic and
Change. In 1984, Brown released a number of
singles in her own name, including "Somebody Else's Guy," which made it #2 on the
Billboard R&B Singles chart (#75 on the Hot 100). Her
solo career never really took off and she continued to sing on other people's records.
She has over twenty
hits on the
Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, four of which have hit number one. She continues to record
house music and have chart hits in the 21st century.
She did work with
Boy George, as a
backing vocalist, touring worldwide with
Culture Club in 1985 and appeared on their 1986 album,
From Luxury to Heartache
. In 1987, she co-wrote with Boy George his top 30
UK hit, "Keep Me In Mind".
Since 1990, she has lived in
London. Also, in 1990, Brown became a victim of the sampling craze when the line "I've got the power" was sampled from her 1986 dance hit,
Love's Gonna Get You
by electronica group
Snap! for their worldwide hit,
The Power as well as hip hop group
Boogie Down Productions on their single
Love's gonna get'cha (material love).
Brown appeared on both seasons of
BBC One's celebrity singing talent show
Just the Two of Us
; first with TV presenter
Matt Allwright (placing sixth), then with actor
John Bardon from
EastEnders
(placing fourth). In 2006, Brown released a CD entitled
Unreleased
. Her cousin, Shaun Gaskins, says "she took it back to what she knows best, real singing. A lot people should take note and watch how a real diva gets down".
In 2007, Brown collaborated with
The AllStars both live, at a series of
music festivals in the UK, and in the studio recording of their new
album,
All About the Music
. She also sang the
United States national anthem,
The Star-Spangled Banner
, at
Wembley Stadium, for the first ever regular season
American football game played on foreign soil. The game was between the
New York Giants and the winless
Miami Dolphins.
Discography
Below are songs with Jocelyn Brown as featured vocalist.
| Year
| Song
| U.S. HOT 100
| U.S. Dance
| U.S. R&B
| UK
| SWIT
| SWED
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| 1978
| "Keep On Jumpin'" (guest vocalist for Musique (Patrick Adams))
| -
| 1
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 1978
| "In the Bush" (guest vocalist for Musique (Patrick Adams))
| 58
| 1
| 81
| 16
| -
| -
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| 1979
| "I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair" (guest vocalist for Inner Life)
| -
| 7
| 22
| -
| -
| -
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| 1981
| "You Are the One" (guest vocalist for Cerrone)
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 1981
| "My Look" (guest vocalist for Cerrone)
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 1981
| "Letter to My Mother" (guest vocalist for Cerrone)
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 1981
| "Someone to Love" (guest vocalist for Cerrone)
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 1981
| "Hooked on You" (guest vocalist for Cerrone)
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 1981
| "Cherry Tree" (guest vocalist for Cerrone)
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 1981
| "Took Me So Long" (guest vocalist for Cerrone)
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 1981
| "It's a Girl's Affair" (vocalist for Change)
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 1981
| "Ain't No Mountain High Enough'" (guest vocalist for Inner Life)
| -
| 20
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 1984
| "Somebody Else's Guy" (Jocelyn Brown)
| 75
| 13
| 2
| 13
| -
| -
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| 1984
| "I Wish You Would" (Jocelyn Brown)
| -
| -
| 49
| 51
| -
| -
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| 1986
| "Love's Gonna Get You" (Jocelyn Brown)
| -
| 1
| 38
| 70
| -
| -
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| 1987
| "Ego Maniac" (Jocelyn Brown)
| -
| -
| -
| 82
| -
| -
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| 1990
| "Freedom" (Jocelyn Brown)
| -
| -
| -
| 83
| -
| -
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| 1991
| "Always There" (Incognito)
| -
| -
| 33
| 6
| 8
| 19
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| 1991
| "Don't Talk Just Kiss" (Right Said Fred)
| -
| 3
| -
| 3
| -
| -
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| 1991 "She Got Soul" (Jamestown)
| 1993
| "Take Me Up" (Sonic Surfers)
| -
| -
| -
| 61
| -
| -
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| 1994
| "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (with Kym Mazelle)
| -
| -
| -
| 13
| -
| -
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| 1994
| "Gimme All Your Lovin'" (with Kym Mazelle)
| -
| -
| -
| 22
| -
| -
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| 1996
| "Keep On Jumpin'" (Todd Terry feat. Martha Wash & Jocelyn Brown)
| -
| 1
| -
| 8
| 17
| 56
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| 1997
| "Somethin' Going On" (Todd Terry feat. Martha Wash & Jocelyn Brown)
| -
| 1
| -
| 5
| 28
| 43
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| 1998
| "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (Jocelyn Brown)
| -
| -
| -
| 35
| -
| -
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| 1998
| "Fun" (Da Mob)
| -
| 1
| -
| 33
| -
| -
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| 1998
| "Show You Love" (A.K. Soul)
| -
| 21
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 1999
| "I Believe" (Jamestown feat. Jocelyn Brown)
| -
| -
| -
| 62
| -
| -
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| 1999
| "It's All Good" (Da Mob feat.Jocelyn Brown)
| -
| -
| -
| 54
| -
| -
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| 2002
| "I'm a Woman" (Cassius and Jocelyn Brown)
| -
| -
| -
| -
| 63
| -
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| 2002
| "Monday, Tuesday... Laissez-moi danser" (2005 remix of Dalida song by Cerrone, samples Jocelyn Brown vocal from 1981 track "Took Me So Long")
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| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 2007
| "All About the Music" song by The AllStars Collective
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| -
| -
| -
| -
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