Earl Toon(I)
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Sir Earl Toon, founder of Y.M.O. Enterprises LLC, is one of the most
prolific Funk/R&B/Pop/Hip-hop/Rock/Soul
singer-songwriter/arranger/producers of the '70s, '80s, '90s, and
present. A member of the multi-platinum band Kool & the Gang, Sir Earl
co-wrote and co-produced songs like "Celebration", "Ladies Night", and
"Too Hot" as well as many other well-known hits that charted no less
than Billboard's Top 40, many earning him Platinum and Gold albums &
singles, U.K. Silver albums and singles, Multiple BMI Million-Air
citations, along with a host of other awards. Kool & the Gang to date
have sold over 70 million records worldwide and are Grammy and American
Music Awards recipients. Sir Earl learned his trade as being the one
and only protégé of Mr. Otis Blackwell, who wrote many of Elvis
Presley's greatest hits such as "Don't Be Cruel", "Return to Sender",
and "All Shook Up", also Jerry Lee Lewis' #1 Hit "Great Balls Of Fire",
and "Fever" for Peggy Lee, just to name a few. Mr. Blackwell's legacy
lives on in the several unreleased songs that he and Sir Earl Toon/Earl
Toon, Jr. have written together. After many world tours with Kool & The
Gang, Sir Earl Toon continues to passionately entertain people around
the world.