He wrote the R&B standard, “Some Kind of Wonderful,” and is still today singing, writing songs, and playing guitar.  He earned a GRAMMY nomination for Male Vocalist of the Year, and, he received no fewer than five BMI lifetime achievement awards, was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, is about to be inducted into the Rochester (New York) Music Hall of Fame, and received three Canadian Lifetime Achievement Awards.  He has played with, written for, and performed alongside the likes of Nina Simone, James Brown, The Temptations, Wilson Pickett, Grand Funk Railroad, Huey Lewis & the News, Buddy Guy, Joss Stone, and more.  In late January he released a 12-song album.

Now Hear This Entertainment

NHTE 532 John Ellison

A "sampler platter," providing excerpts from 14 of the last hundred episodes of "Now Hear This Entertainment," giving a peek into just some of the many, many highlights from all the great guests who have been interviewed over that span.

NHTE 601 Best Of Volume 6

Now Hear This is a Tampa, Florida-based agency specializing in management, publicity, and related services.  The company president, Bruce Wawrzyniak, hosts a weekly podcast called "Now Hear This Entertainment," featuring interviews with guests who are having success in entertainment (primarily music), with the content presented in a way that not only entertains fans of that guest and fans of good music (interviews) in general, but in a manner that educates musicians, singers, songwriters – entertainers who want to learn from those who are being interviewed.  The guests come from a wide array of genres and locales.

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