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Pearl Woods

real name Lily Pearl Johnson nèe Woodward

Pearl Woods is credited on 724 releases across 219 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1960–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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724

Credits

219

Albums

7

Decades active

127

In collections

Biography

Singer, producer and songwriter, born 24 September 1933 in St. Matthews, South Carolina. Moved to New York in 1951.
She married her songwriting partner Freddy Johnson and turned to religion in 1973 becoming a lay minister and a nurse.
She died 19 March 2010 in Arlington, TX.
Woods released several R&B singles during the late 1950s/early 1960s. She is also a songwriter, best known for (co-)composing Etta James' Something's Got A Hold On Me (1962).
Together with her husband she owned Pearltone Records / Pearl Records.

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Credited work

724 releases · 219 albums · active 1960–2024

  • Performance · 829
  • Other credits · 58
  • Production · 9

Studios: BSB Studio · The New Era Club, Nashville · RPM International Studios · The Skyliner Ballroom, Forth Worth, Texas

Discography

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