Randy Browne (born in 1952, Memphis, Tennessee) started as a singer of doo-wop and in his local church, and became a solo singer after recording with Memphis group, The Newcomers, who had the R&B hit "Pin The Tail On The Donkey" in 1971, on Stax Records. At one point, Brown was also a short-term member of The Temprees. In 1973 Brown left The Newcomers and recorded his first single "Did You Hear Yourself" on Stax Records. After several unsuccessful singles on a Stax subsidiary label, in 1975 he recorded "You Can Be Cured" and "Take a Few More Steps" on Mainstream Records, which he left one year later. Brown was persuaded to return to the studio by writer/producer Carl Hampton in 1978.

After receiving a call from Hampton, with whom he had been at school, Randy recorded four tracks that were given to Russ Reagan at Parachute Records. One of the songs, "I'd Rather Hurt Myself," left Reagan impressed and the song was then recorded. The song was well received by the public and then Randy recorded additional tracks, thus completing the album "Welcome To My Room", which was released in 1978.

This song was well known in Brazil as the "Melo of Wing" because of the scenes where it was performed in the novel Father Hero in 1979. Brown had another success in 1980, "We Ought To Be Doin 'It," which reached No. 16 on the R & B charts in the United States.

Hampton produced and wrote all of the material on Brown's debut album with Homer Banks, another long-time Memphis producer/musician. Brown recorded four albums for Casablanca Records' subsidiaries, Parachute and Chocolate City, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, often performing songs penned and produced by Homer Banks. His fifth and last album was recorded at Stax.

Below is a list of Randy Brown 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)