Discography and Biography of Black Ivory. Listen to all their hits.
Black Ivory Songs

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Black Ivory is an R&B group from Harlem, which had a number of hits in the 1970s, including "Don't Turn Around", "You and I" (which featured Larry Blackmon from Cameo on drums), "I'll Find a Way (The Loneliest Man in Town)", "Spinning Around", "What Goes Around (Comes Around)", "Will We Ever Come Together", and "Mainline." The group features songwriter and prolific disco producer Leroy Burgess, Stuart Bascombe, and Russell Patterson. They were managed by Patrick Adams, an executive at the Today/Perception record company. Burgess was the lead voice of the majority of their hits in the early 1970s.

Below is a list of Black Ivory songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Panoramic 1207
chart position: US dance #18
written by: John Henderson and Edward Dozier
Black Ivory I've Got My Eyes On You
1985 Panoramic
2 record label: Today 1508
chart position: RandB #32, US #111
written by: Stuart Bascombe and Leroy Burgess
album: Don't Turn Around
Black Ivory You and I
1972 Today
3 record label: Today 1516
chart position: RandB #37
written by: Patrick Adams and Dave Jordan
album: Baby, Won't You Change Your Mind
Black Ivory Time Is Love
1973 Today
4 record label: Today 1501
chart position: RandB #38
written by: Patrick Adams
album: Don't Turn Around
Black Ivory Don't Turn Around
1971 Today
5 record label: Buddah 443
chart position: RandB #40
written by: Michael Gately and Robert John
album: Feel It
Black Ivory Will We Ever Come Together
1975 Buddah
6 record label: Kwanza 7800
chart position: RandB #44
written by: Jerry Akines, Johnny Bellmon, Buddy Turner and Victor Drayton
Black Ivory What Goes Around (Comes Around)
1974 Kwanza
7 record label: Today 1520
chart position: RandB #45
written by: Patrick Adams, Dave Jordan and J.V. Anderson
album: Baby, Won't You Change Your Mind
Black Ivory Spinning Around
1973 Today
8 record label: Today 1511
chart position: RandB #46
written by: Patrick Adams and Leroy Burgess
album: Don't Turn Around
Black Ivory I'll Find A Way
1972 Today
9 record label: Panoramic 200
chart position: RandB #73
written by: David Hart
album: Then And Now
Black Ivory You Are My Lover
1984 Panoramic
10 record label: Buddah 610
chart position: US Dance #57
written by: Leroy Burgess
album: Hangin' Heavy
Black Ivory Mainline
1979 Buddah
-- record label: Buddah 561
written by: Graham Laydon
album: Black Ivory
comments: [sweet soul ballad]
Black Ivory You Mean Everything To Me
1977 Buddah
-- record label: Power Exchange 277 (UK)
written by: F. Wilson, B. Pearson
album: Hangin\' Heavy
comments: [sweet soul love ballad]
Black Ivory You Turned My Whole World Around
1978 Power Exchange
-- record label: Panoramic 1218
written by: Tony Davis, Carl West
Black Ivory ft. Russell Patterson Can't Shake Your Love
1986 Panoramic
-- record label: Today 1511
written by: Adams, Bascombe, Burgess, Patterson
album: Don't Turn Around
Black Ivory Surrender
1971 Today




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