D.J. Rogers

D.J. Rogers is most beneficial known for the sensitive acoustic piano-based ballad “State YOU LIKE Me,” a charting one from his 1976 debut RCA record It’s Good to become Alive. Natalie Cole’s cover from the tune was the initial one from her record Snowfall within the Sahara, released by WEA/Elektra Entertainment in June 1999. Like the majority of soul performers, DeWayne Julius Rogers started performing and playing piano in cathedral in his indigenous LA. He later caused Rev. Adam Cleveland when he was the movie director of the W Community Choir and an associate of the LA Community Choir. The gospel impact was very apparent in Rogers’ afterwards secular produces, with a lot of his tracks filled up with inspirational text messages. After putting your signature on with RCA Information, Rogers’ debut record It’s Good to become Alive premiered. Initially attaining radio airplay as an record track, the one “Say YOU LIKE Me” peaked at amount 51 R&B on Billboard’s graphs in springtime 1976. The 45 was a “turntable strike,” and therefore it received a large amount of radio play, but also for whatever factors the publicity didn’t result in the single being truly a big vendor. The lackluster graph achievement of “State YOU LIKE Me” (and his various other RCA produces) result in Rogers’ furious tirades within an article within the leading Soul Mag, as he attributed the label’s apparently slothful attitude towards his music due to the record division’s primary purpose to be that of a “taxes write-off.” After hearing “Say YOU LIKE Me,” you might have to question why the record wasn’t a larger hit. Aside from the aforementioned Cole among others, Jennifer Holliday protected the tune; her version are available on Greatest of Jennifer Holliday, UNI/Geffen. Another monitor from It’s Great to become Alive that received radio play was the poignant story of “Bula Jean,” a woman that experienced beauty that “the entire world” couldn’t observe. On “Bula Jean,” Rogers’ gospel-born fervor was at its maximum. On his following album, Rogers started his cooperation with composer/keyboardist/arranger/maker Jerry Peters (co-wrote “Moving in Circles” with Anita Poree, a 1969 platinum solitary for the Close friends of Variation and lots two R&B strike for the Space Music group in 1986). You start with a swirling strings intro, “Allow Your Life Sparkle” was Rogers’ jubilant solitary that charted at amount 78 R&B, fall 1976. It had been included on the 1976 On the highway Once again LP. Rogers agreed upon with Lonnie Simmons’ Total Knowledge Records (the Distance Music group, Yarbrough and Individuals) as well as the LP Like, Music & Lifestyle was released in 1977. Rogers’ initial one for the RCA-distributed label, “Like Is All I WANT,” highlighted multi-tracked vocals by Deniece Williams (“Free of charge,” “Let’s Listen to It for the Youngster,” “INADEQUATE Too Later” with Johnny Mathis). The next one was the passionate “Saved by Like.” Other features were “SHE’S Eyes for me personally,” “You Against You,” as well as the pumping “Appreciate CAN MAKE It Better.” Putting your signature on with Columbia Information, the vocalist/songwriter finally liked some upper graph achievement. His highest charting one was “Like Brought Me Back again,” probably Rogers’ most biographical tune. Within it, the vocalist appears to “testify” to his music market travails. Record purchasers heard him, acquiring the monitor to quantity 20 R&B during summer time 1978. The follow-up, the lively “All My Like (Component 1)” managed to get to quantity 87 R&B, past due 1978. Rogers was on the planet, Wind & Open fire innovator Maurice White’s Columbia-distributed label ARC when one of is own most enduring songs, the percolating steppers’ preferred “Trust me (Component 1)” mid-charted at quantity 68 R&B, springtime 1979. The monitor includes a “shucking” string set up by Coleridge Taylor Perkinson. The follow-up, “Like Cycles,” visited quantity 44 R&B, springtime 1980. Rogers dueted with vocalist/keyboardist Patrice Rushen on “Givin’ It up Is usually Givin’ Up” from her 1980 Elektra LP Pizzaazz. Released mainly because an individual, it peaked at quantity 47 R&B, summer time 1980. The recording also yielded her quantity seven R&B strike “Haven’t You Noticed.” Both songs are on the 1996 Rhino greatest-hits arranged Haven’t You Heard-The Greatest of Patrice Rushen. Rogers’ last charting solitary was a cover of Kenny Rogers quantity five pop strike “She Believes in Me” which charted quantity 66 R&B. Through the middle- and past due ’80s, he documented gospel albums. He co-wrote “My Trust in Jesus” with John Dark for gospel designer Keith Pringle (“Contact Him Up”) and published and performed a duet with Pringle on “YET ANOTHER Day time.” Rogers made an appearance like a choir member around the 1997 UPN-TV sitcom VERY GOOD NEWS. Another gospel-influenced vocalist/keyboardist, Billy Preston, is at the cast as well. A few of Rogers’ RCA/Columbia edges are available on Collectables Information’ 1996 established D.J. Rogers: Golden Classics.