TURLEY RICHARDS
Turley Richards (born Richard Turley; June 12, 1941 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an American singer and guitarist. He released his debut album on Warner Bros. Records in 1970. He scored two minor hit singles in the US in the early 1970s. Further releases followed later in the decade, as did a third hit in 1980. Richards made the first recording of Tom Snow and Nan O’Byrne’s “You Might Need Somebody”, which was subsequently a UK hit twice. On September 1, 2011, Turley Richards said: “My! the world is crazy. I just found out this week that Richard Turley (my given name before changing it) on Fraternity Records in 1959 song ‘Making Love With My Baby’ has put me in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. I’m so flattered.” (More from Wikipedia)
Nan O’Byrne wrote the lyrics for Black Russian’s second single “Mystified” and the flip side of the first single, “Love’s Enough”; and she co-wrote the lyrics for two other songs on the album. Nan O’Byrne also co-wrote “You Might Need Somebody” that was a UK hit for Randy Crawford in 1981, and “You Might Need Somebody” was later a hit for Shola Ama in 1997; “You Might Need Somebody” was first recorded by Turley Richards in 1980, and “You Might Need Somebody” was also covered by Joe Walsh.
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