Billy Harner

Known in North spirit circles as “The Individual Percolator,” blue-eyed spirit shouter Billy Harner was created and elevated in Philadelphia, initial emerging in 1964 with backing group the Expressions in the Lawn discharge “Anymore.” His helping unit demonstrated short-lived, as the label of his follow-up, “Coney Isle Wild Kid,” acknowledged Harner by itself, and in 1965 he agreed upon to Cameo/Parkway release a “DURING the night time.” Following the discharge of 1966’s “Let’s Enter Series,” Harner transferred to the Kama Sutra imprint, where he documented some cult-classic singles including “Homicide Dresser,” “HOW ABOUT the Music,” as well as the North soul preferred “Sally’s Sayin’ Somethin’,” a strike that charted in Philadelphia, NY, and LA in the summertime of 1967 but didn’t gain nationwide momentum. In past due 1968, Harner agreed upon to the neighborhood independent label Open up/OR, where his debut discharge, the luminous ballad “A NOTE to My Baby,” was certified for wider distribution on Atlantic. Another North traditional, the scorching Gamble-Huff monitor “I Struck It Wealthy” preceded the 1969 discharge of Harner’s exclusive LP, She’s Nearly You. The record fulfilled the same discouraging destiny as his prior produces, and after one last work for the obscure 66 + 6 label, the Chris Kenner cover “Something YOU HAVE,” the vocalist give up his music profession to open up his very own barbershop in Camden, NJ. In the 1990s, Harner resurfaced in the East Coastline oldies circuit.