Performance · Engineering
Shuggie Otis
Los Angeles, United States • b. 1953-11-30
Shuggie Otis is credited on 740 releases across 162 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1968–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
740
Pressings credited
162
Albums
7
Decades active
464
In collections
Biography
Johnny Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes Jr.; November 30, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist. Otis's composition "Strawberry Letter 23" as recorded by the Brothers Johnson topped the Billboard R&B chart and reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977. He achieved commercial success with his 1974 single "Inspiration Information" (from the album of the same title), reaching No. 56 on the R&B chart.
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Credited work
740 releases · 162 albums · active 1968–2025
- Performance · 1,970
- Engineering · 114
- Other credits · 84
- Production · 40
- Mastering · 6
Studios: T.T.G. Studios · Whitney Recording Studios · Sunset Sound · Hawk Sound Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Hot Rats
1969
Pulp Fiction (Music From The Motion Picture)
1994
Confessions
2004
Blowout Comb
1994
Jackie Brown (Music From The Miramax Motion Picture)
1997
Freedom Flight
1971
The Grind Date
2004
Inspiration Information
1974
Dangerously In Love
2003
Right On Time
1977
Soul Time!
2011
Dark Was The Night
2009
The New Danger
2004
R.
1998
Safe + Sound
1995
Kooper Session
1969
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In)
2020
Strawberry Letter #23
1977
Introducing Shuggie Otis
2013
Generation EFX
1998
Blast!
1982
The Hot Rats Sessions
2019
Radioactive
2011
It's My Pleasure
1975
Frequent collaborators
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